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"LIGHT IN SECRET": VATICAN'S TREASURE REVEALS DOCUMENTS ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
http://www.armenianow.com/genocide/36115/vatican_archives_armenian_genocide
02.03.12 | 12:11
Photo: www.wikipedia.org
Vatican archives documenting centuries of European history, on public
display for the first time include documents relating to the Armenian
Genocide.
Head of the Vatican archives Sergio Pagano said in an interview that
the 2012 exhibition would present a book with documents and information
on the Armenian Genocide, published as a separate volume.
Extracts include:
An eyewitness from Erzrum writes: "I saw how they were slaughtering
many children. My nephew was running away from home with a two year-old
child on his shoulders, but he got shot and collapsed, two soldiers
approached and killed him as the child watched... I saw how they
killed the spiritual leader of our town: they dug out his eyes, tore
off his beard. Before killing him the soldiers had made him dance."
An extract from a Turkish soldier's testimony named Mustafa Suleiman
reads:
"We entered the Armenian villages and killed everybody, we were given
an order to kill all people disregarding their gender or age. The
Kurds who had come with us were looting the houses. A great number
of disabled and elderly Armenians were hiding inside a school in
the town center, but we had a clear order, so we killed them too. In
Geliguzan village 800 Armenians were killed or burned to death. Father
Hovhannes's eyes were dug out, his beard, nose and ears were cut off.
I did not kill a single child, I even saved two. I hid them in my
tent for three days, but then one day I entered the tent and found
their disfigured and dismembered corpses."
Pagano stressed that Pope Leo XIII at that time called on Turkey to
stop the Genocide.
From: Baghdasarian
http://www.armenianow.com/genocide/36115/vatican_archives_armenian_genocide
02.03.12 | 12:11
Photo: www.wikipedia.org
Vatican archives documenting centuries of European history, on public
display for the first time include documents relating to the Armenian
Genocide.
Head of the Vatican archives Sergio Pagano said in an interview that
the 2012 exhibition would present a book with documents and information
on the Armenian Genocide, published as a separate volume.
Extracts include:
An eyewitness from Erzrum writes: "I saw how they were slaughtering
many children. My nephew was running away from home with a two year-old
child on his shoulders, but he got shot and collapsed, two soldiers
approached and killed him as the child watched... I saw how they
killed the spiritual leader of our town: they dug out his eyes, tore
off his beard. Before killing him the soldiers had made him dance."
An extract from a Turkish soldier's testimony named Mustafa Suleiman
reads:
"We entered the Armenian villages and killed everybody, we were given
an order to kill all people disregarding their gender or age. The
Kurds who had come with us were looting the houses. A great number
of disabled and elderly Armenians were hiding inside a school in
the town center, but we had a clear order, so we killed them too. In
Geliguzan village 800 Armenians were killed or burned to death. Father
Hovhannes's eyes were dug out, his beard, nose and ears were cut off.
I did not kill a single child, I even saved two. I hid them in my
tent for three days, but then one day I entered the tent and found
their disfigured and dismembered corpses."
Pagano stressed that Pope Leo XIII at that time called on Turkey to
stop the Genocide.
From: Baghdasarian