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Further proof emerges of Turkey's genocide
ROBERT FISK
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/further-proof-emerges-of-turkeys-genocide-8877411.html
Sunday 13 October 2013
The Turks are preparing to smother the 100th anniversary of their
Holocaust against the Christian Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915
To other, earlier refugees. The Turks are preparing to smother the
100th anniversary of their Holocaust against the Christian Armenians
of the Ottoman Empire in 1915 with commemorations of their victory
over the Allies at Canakkale (Gallipoli) the same year. But each month
brings yet further proof - in the testimony of Westerners - of what
Turkey still officially denies: that the genocide of the Armenians was
a fact of history.
Now come the memoirs of Alec Glen, a British army doctor of the
1914-18 war - written privately for his sons, but published by his
family - which record the further agony of the Armenians.
Entitled In the Front Line: A Doctor in War and Peace, Dr Glen's
account includes the fate of the Armenians of Caucasia as the Turks
tried to spread their pan-Turkic rule to the east in 1918 - after the
original massacre of one-and-a-half million Armenians three years
earlier. Marching through north-western Iran towards Baku, Dr Glen
writes of how his British-Indian force began to pass several thousand
Armenian refugees in a day.
`It was an amazing and tragic sight ... now and then we passed at a
roadside a dying person, or one already dead and half-eaten by dogs
and jackals... we lifted some of the younger ones who might recover on
to the mules and carried them forward to the next village.
`Salisbury Craig [a fellow British doctor] told me later that he
attended an old refugee in the road who, before he died, gave him a
leather belt full of sovereigns, which he asked him to spend to help
the refugees.'
Greater love hath no man...
>From the same report: Lebanon has cause for shame in its treatment of
Syrian refugees
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/lebanon-has-cause-for-shame-in-its-treatment-of-syrian-refugees-8877410.html
ROBERT FISK
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/further-proof-emerges-of-turkeys-genocide-8877411.html
Sunday 13 October 2013
The Turks are preparing to smother the 100th anniversary of their
Holocaust against the Christian Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915
To other, earlier refugees. The Turks are preparing to smother the
100th anniversary of their Holocaust against the Christian Armenians
of the Ottoman Empire in 1915 with commemorations of their victory
over the Allies at Canakkale (Gallipoli) the same year. But each month
brings yet further proof - in the testimony of Westerners - of what
Turkey still officially denies: that the genocide of the Armenians was
a fact of history.
Now come the memoirs of Alec Glen, a British army doctor of the
1914-18 war - written privately for his sons, but published by his
family - which record the further agony of the Armenians.
Entitled In the Front Line: A Doctor in War and Peace, Dr Glen's
account includes the fate of the Armenians of Caucasia as the Turks
tried to spread their pan-Turkic rule to the east in 1918 - after the
original massacre of one-and-a-half million Armenians three years
earlier. Marching through north-western Iran towards Baku, Dr Glen
writes of how his British-Indian force began to pass several thousand
Armenian refugees in a day.
`It was an amazing and tragic sight ... now and then we passed at a
roadside a dying person, or one already dead and half-eaten by dogs
and jackals... we lifted some of the younger ones who might recover on
to the mules and carried them forward to the next village.
`Salisbury Craig [a fellow British doctor] told me later that he
attended an old refugee in the road who, before he died, gave him a
leather belt full of sovereigns, which he asked him to spend to help
the refugees.'
Greater love hath no man...
>From the same report: Lebanon has cause for shame in its treatment of
Syrian refugees
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/lebanon-has-cause-for-shame-in-its-treatment-of-syrian-refugees-8877410.html