The Plight of Armenian and Assyrian Christians: Report of Public Meeting Organised by the Lord Mayor's Fund, Held at Central Hall, Westminster, on December 4, 1918; Speeches (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1333422164 ISBN 13: 9781333422165

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Plight of Armenian and Assyrian Christians: Report of Public Meeting Organised by the Lord Mayor's Fund, Held at Central Hall, Westminster, on December 4, 1918; Speeches

My friends, we are a little denuded to-day of the speakers for whom we had hoped, but we had no thought at the time this meeting was announced that an election would be in progress, and that those who were candidates would be almost compelled to be elsewhere. The fact of such a meeting as this being held or having to be held with.

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Excerpt from The Plight of Armenian and Assyrian Christians: Report of Public Meeting Organised by the Lord Mayor's Fund, Held at Central Hall, Westminster, on December 4, 1918; Speeches

The servitude in which Christian populations under Turkish rule had groaned for centuries was replaced some thirty or forty years ago, under that monster of iniquity, Abdul Hamid, by a policy of massacre. The difficulty of Christian peoples had been a continuous one, and the Turk had complained time after time of what he called a disloyalty on the part of people whom he was cease lessly persecuting. But he then exchanged for that former policy a policy of massacre, and decided that there should be no Armenian or Nestorian or Christian question, because, so far as he could bring it about, there should be no Armenian or Nestorian or other Christian to arouse it. A deliberate plan of extermination was set on foot, and for years was carried out. During the war matters reached a point almost incredible in its horror. First there came to the poor Christian popula tions who had survived what had gone before exactions intolerable in their severity, and then, because those exac tions could not be enforced or the money paid, there came torture of the vilest and most awful kind. Then there came the fear that Christians, after so suffering, should be enlisted in the Army. They were enlisted, and speedily put into what are called labour battalions, the point of that being that they should be disarmed, and so on occasion be the objects of a massacre against which, had they been ordinary soldiers, they might have defended themselves. We have records of all this, compiled largely from Americ can sources, by the devoted labours of American consuls, missionaries, and workers. These records are stored in the archives at Washington, and the facts are placed beyond doubt with a horrible detail, blood-curdling to those who read. The massacres which afterwards ensued, carried out amohg men who had no power of resistance,and no physical strength to escape, are literally incredible but for the sources from which the information comes. Some of you will have read in detail the story told in Mr. Arnold Toynbee's book on Armenian Atrocities, to which Lord Bryce has given his imprimatur and his name. Others will, perhaps, have read three articles in the last three weekly issues of Land and Water, by Mr. Henry Morgenthau, the former diplomatic agent in Constantin ople, written for the American Government, and setting forth the events in detail. They are literally incredible but for the source from which they have come and the authentication which is given to the narrative. They describe unspeakable horrors, tortures, massacres, the selling for a few shillings of girls to Turkish soldiers, and the consequent terrible things which have ensued. A population civilised and intelligent, and a little while ago. Notwithstanding all its troubles, prosperous, is now reduced to a condition almost impossible to describe without seem ing an exaggeration. We read of massacred in three days; another time bodies were counted by the American representatives, who saw the prepara tions made for their burning. Altogether at least persons - some say a million persons - have been done to death under a system of horrible misrule and intolerable and unspeakable cruelty, which, it amazes one to find, has not stirred the world even more than it has done. These are not the high-flown or overwrought descriptions of emotional men. I refer you to the books I have mentioned to see, where the authority is given, how quiet and cool and careful it is, and how capable the story is of refutation if refutation were possible, which I am afraid it is not. Of the Assyrian Christians on whose behalf we are speaking, not princi pally, indeed, but markedly, to-night, it is said that prob ably one half of the whole have perished, including the Nestorian patriarch, Mar Shim'un, and large numbers of his...

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1333422164
• ISBN 13: 9781333422165
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 30