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    SPECIAL PROJECT. SURVIVORS OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE. EVIDENCE OF HAYKANUSH HLOYANTS ABOUT MASSACRES IN KHNUS

    Aysor.am is launching the third series of project "Armenian Genocide:
    Breaking the Silence." Under the headline "Survivors" we will regularly
    present the testimonies of survivors of the 1915 Armenian massacres
    in the Ottoman Turkey. We present the first eyewitness testimony from
    the series.

    Haykanush Hloyants who found refuge in the village of Ughuzli recalled:

    "On Ascension Day the Government ordered that all the Armenians be
    expelled from the town and massacred. A flight began, during which
    I lost my children.

    Osman chavush caught me. At first he was going to throw me into a
    river, but then he thought that he needed me so he spared my life and
    took me and my 6-year-old son Hamazasp to Chapaghjur. He kept me in
    his family in a village and started to cohabit forcibly with me.

    Osman had a legal Turkish wife, and an Armenian wife - like me - whom
    they converted into a Turk and called 'Minavar' which means 'heavenly
    light'. I was named Nikar. I stayed at that house for three months.

    When the Russians were approaching, Osman together with his two wives
    and the entire family moved inland, but he left me and my son behind,
    thinking that if the Russians won and captured our village, I would
    find my compatriots - and when Turks won, I would protect the house
    until their return.

    With God's help, the Russian won. They assembled us and handed us
    over to the fortress staff that sent us to Igdir. The name of the son
    I lost was Azat. My husband's name is Arevshat. He was an askyar. I
    have no news of him.

    (The evidence was recorded by Varos Sargsyan).

    The project was prepared with the assistance of the Information and
    Analytical Center of the Armenian Government Staff.

    20.02.15, 21:39

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