Facts About Armenia
Facts About Armenia
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The villagers plead poverty and implore mercy. Greed, not compassion, moves the Zaptiehs to com- promise the matter for ^3 more, but the money is not forthcoming. Then they demand the surrender of the young women and girls of the family to glut their brutal appetites, and refusal is punished with a series of tortures over which decency and humanity. Throw a veil of silence Rape, and every kind of brutal outrage conceivable to the diseased mind of Oriental profligates, and incredible to the aver...age European intelligence, varied perhaps with murder or arson, wind up the incident.
I have seen and spoken with victims of these representatives of the Sublime Porte ; I have inspected their wounds, questioned their 2 9 families, interrogated their priests, their persecutors, and their gaolers (some of them being incarcerated for complaining), and I unhesitat- ingly affirm, not merely that these horrors are real facts, but that they are frequent occurrences. The following is the translation of an authentic document in my possession, signed and sealed by the inhabi- tants of Melikan (Kaza of Keghi), addressed as recently as March 26th of the present year to his Beatitude, the learned and saintly Metropolitan Archbishop of Erzeroum, a dignitary who enjoys the respect and esteem of friends and foes: " For a long time past the tour or five Zaptiehs charged with the collection of the imperial taxes have chosen our village for their headquarters, and compel the inhabitants of the outlying country to come hither to pay their contributions They eat, drink, and feed their horses at our expense, undisguisedly showing that they are re- solved to reduce us to beggary.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The villagers plead poverty and implore mercy. Greed, not compassion, moves the Zaptiehs to com- promise the matter for ^3 more, but the money is not forthcoming. Then they demand the surrender of the young women and girls of the family to glut their brutal appetites, and refusal is punished with a series of tortures over which decency and humanity. Throw a veil of silence Rape, and every kind of brutal outrage conceivable to the diseased mind of Oriental profligates, and incredible to the aver...age European intelligence, varied perhaps with murder or arson, wind up the incident.
I have seen and spoken with victims of these representatives of the Sublime Porte ; I have inspected their wounds, questioned their 2 9 families, interrogated their priests, their persecutors, and their gaolers (some of them being incarcerated for complaining), and I unhesitat- ingly affirm, not merely that these horrors are real facts, but that they are frequent occurrences. The following is the translation of an authentic document in my possession, signed and sealed by the inhabi- tants of Melikan (Kaza of Keghi), addressed as recently as March 26th of the present year to his Beatitude, the learned and saintly Metropolitan Archbishop of Erzeroum, a dignitary who enjoys the respect and esteem of friends and foes: " For a long time past the tour or five Zaptiehs charged with the collection of the imperial taxes have chosen our village for their headquarters, and compel the inhabitants of the outlying country to come hither to pay their contributions They eat, drink, and feed their horses at our expense, undisguisedly showing that they are re- solved to reduce us to beggary.
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