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TURKS WERE DISMEMBERING ARMENIAN KIDS, BLINDING AND KILLING ARMENIAN PRIESTS- VATICAN
Tert.am
11.07.11
The Vatican documents on the Armenian Genocide will be published in
a separate book, Vatican Archives Officer Monsignor Sergio Pagano
has told the Turkish newspaper Vatan.
Pagano said the documents refer to the Armenian massacres perpetrated
between 1894 and 1897 in the Ottoman Empire. He said that at the
time Pope Leo XIII had asked Sultan Abdul Hamid to show mercy and
stop the atrocities against the Armenians.
Vatan has published two eyewitness accounts provided by Pagano.
An account by an eyewitness from Erzrum:
I saw them kill children. I saw my cousin Dono fleeing the house
fleeing the house with his 2-year-old child. They shot him and he
felled down. Two armed men came up to them and killed Dono before the
child's eyes... I saw them kill the chief priest of our town. They
first picked his eyes, tore his beard. Before they killed him, they
made him dance.
An account by Turkish soldier Mustafa Suleyman:
We would enter the Armenian villages and kill everybody. The Kurds
accompanying us looted the houses of the Armenians. A group of elderly
and disabled people was hiding in the school that was in the center of
the town. But we were ordered to killed them too. In the village of
Geliguzan, 800 Armenians were killed. They picked Father Hovhannes's
eyes, tore his beard, cut out his nose and ears, and then killed him
by their bayonets. I did not kill any child. I even hid two kids in
my tent but once I found them dismembered.
Tert.am
11.07.11
The Vatican documents on the Armenian Genocide will be published in
a separate book, Vatican Archives Officer Monsignor Sergio Pagano
has told the Turkish newspaper Vatan.
Pagano said the documents refer to the Armenian massacres perpetrated
between 1894 and 1897 in the Ottoman Empire. He said that at the
time Pope Leo XIII had asked Sultan Abdul Hamid to show mercy and
stop the atrocities against the Armenians.
Vatan has published two eyewitness accounts provided by Pagano.
An account by an eyewitness from Erzrum:
I saw them kill children. I saw my cousin Dono fleeing the house
fleeing the house with his 2-year-old child. They shot him and he
felled down. Two armed men came up to them and killed Dono before the
child's eyes... I saw them kill the chief priest of our town. They
first picked his eyes, tore his beard. Before they killed him, they
made him dance.
An account by Turkish soldier Mustafa Suleyman:
We would enter the Armenian villages and kill everybody. The Kurds
accompanying us looted the houses of the Armenians. A group of elderly
and disabled people was hiding in the school that was in the center of
the town. But we were ordered to killed them too. In the village of
Geliguzan, 800 Armenians were killed. They picked Father Hovhannes's
eyes, tore his beard, cut out his nose and ears, and then killed him
by their bayonets. I did not kill any child. I even hid two kids in
my tent but once I found them dismembered.