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Daily Mail: Genocide of the Christians: The blood-soaked depravity exceeded even today's atrocities by Islamic State
Now, 100 years on Turkey faces global disgust at its refusal to admit butchering over a MILLION Armenians
It was an American Jew who first made the world aware of what happened.
Back in 1915, Henry Morgenthau was the U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and on his desk in Constantinople landed reports from American consuls in far-flung Turkish cities, documenting massacres and death marches.
Christian Armenians in the Ottoman Empire had long been second-class citizens, a persecuted minority. Now, as power in the land was seized by a junta of nationalist officers known as the Young Turks, persecution turned to unbridled savagery.
Unleashed on the Armenians, Turkish policemen and soldiers ransacked Christian churches and handed bishops and priests over to the mob.
Community leaders such as doctors and teachers were hanged in batches on gallows in town squares. An American missionary reported seeing men tied together with their heads sticking through the rungs of a ladder to be lopped off with swords.
Torture was commonplace, Morgenthau maintained as he studied the evidence. ‘They would pull out eyebrows and beards almost hair by hair, extract fingernails and toenails, apply red-hot irons and tear off flesh with pincers, then pour boiled butter into the wounds.’
Crucifixion was treated as a sport. ‘As the sufferer writhes in his agony, they would cry: “Now let your Christ come and help you”.’
When orders were given to assemble all the Armenians and march them out into the desert, Morgenthau had no doubt that this was ‘the death warrant to a whole race’. Moreover, he said: ‘In their conversations with me, the authorities made no particular attempt to conceal the fact’.
Update April 22: It's official: President Obama will not recognize the Armenian Genocide, thus breaching another one of his pre-2008 election promises. Partially explaining his silence is the close relationship between Obama and the Islamist Erdogan, who Obama reportedly called the Middle Eastern leader who he feels closest to.
Update April 22: It's official: President Obama will not recognize the Armenian Genocide, thus breaching another one of his pre-2008 election promises. Partially explaining his silence is the close relationship between Obama and the Islamist Erdogan, who Obama reportedly called the Middle Eastern leader who he feels closest to.
Continue reading this account, a column denouncing the White House for refusing to call it a "genocide", and other instances when the White House and other world leaders have supported genocidal regimes and refused to help the victims out of political convenience, related articles, and link to article with disturbing images of the Armenian genocide.




