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    Armenian woman tells Turkish MPs how soldiers killed people during
    Dersim pogroms

    news.am
    June 15, 2012 | 13:51

    Turkish Parliament's Committee studying pogroms in Dersim listened to
    the testimony of 80-year-old Armenian survivor Fatima Yavuz.

    Fatima, who was 5 years old during the Dersim pogroms, said she learnt
    about her nationality only in 1995, Vatan daily reports. Two years ago
    she found out that her real name is Asilkhan Kiremitichyan. The woman
    said her parents and other residents of the village were shot dead by
    the soldiers near the river, later their bodies were thrown into the
    water.

    "I was brought up by Á Turkish muslim family where I faced torture and
    violence. One of my step-mothers beat me so much that she broke my
    fingers. When I was thirteen, they married me to a 35-year-old man. I
    had a life full of sufferings," she said.

    The Turkish government exterminated thousands of villages in Dersim in
    1938. The pogroms claimed lives of 100,000 people. Thousands of the
    1915 Armenian Genocide survivors were killed in 1938.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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