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ARMENIAN MASS KILLINGS: IRANIAN AUTHOR'S DIARY IN ANIMATION
11 minutes ago
23/04/15
Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh witnessed some of the atrocities committed
by the Ottoman government against the Armenian minority.
He was among a group of Iranian nationalists working in Ottoman-ruled
Baghdad during World War One.
As British forces approached Baghdad, Jamalzadeh, together with two
Swedish officers of the Persian gendarmerie force and a few fellow
Iranians left the city for Istanbul.
On their travels, Jamalzadeh described what he saw as "brutal and
shocking". Later he wrote a diary about what he saw as "the mass
murder and looting of Armenians".
100 years on from this historic event, Jamalzadeh's writings are
important as he is seen as a relatively objective witness. Most
memoirs of those times were written by people involved in the conflict.
Jamalzadeh was a famous contemporary Persian author and is known as
the father of short stories in Iran. He later settled in Switzerland
where he lived until his death at the age of 105.
Jamalzadeh's writings were found by the BBC's Rengin Arslan and
Khashayar Joneidi, in Istanbul.
Animation by Morteza Rakhtaala.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32430246
11 minutes ago
23/04/15
Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh witnessed some of the atrocities committed
by the Ottoman government against the Armenian minority.
He was among a group of Iranian nationalists working in Ottoman-ruled
Baghdad during World War One.
As British forces approached Baghdad, Jamalzadeh, together with two
Swedish officers of the Persian gendarmerie force and a few fellow
Iranians left the city for Istanbul.
On their travels, Jamalzadeh described what he saw as "brutal and
shocking". Later he wrote a diary about what he saw as "the mass
murder and looting of Armenians".
100 years on from this historic event, Jamalzadeh's writings are
important as he is seen as a relatively objective witness. Most
memoirs of those times were written by people involved in the conflict.
Jamalzadeh was a famous contemporary Persian author and is known as
the father of short stories in Iran. He later settled in Switzerland
where he lived until his death at the age of 105.
Jamalzadeh's writings were found by the BBC's Rengin Arslan and
Khashayar Joneidi, in Istanbul.
Animation by Morteza Rakhtaala.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32430246