Just another say in Syria. Islamists in Syria took two men, executed both of them:
This butchery is happening in Turkish controlled Syria. It was Turkey’s Ottoman Empire that did the Armenian Genocide in Syria, and today it is this reviving Ottoman empire that is controlling Syria where its proxies are butchering Alawites. These murderous gangs remind me of the Chetes, who were criminals who were released from Ottoman prisons to be death squads to butcher the Armenians. According to Grigoris Balakian, an Armenian priest who survived the Armenian Genocide, the Ittihad (Union) government of the Young Turks, “opened all the gates of the Turkish prisons under a general pardon, thereby releasing thousands of professional criminals, who then formed bands of chetes. These bands began to infest all the roads in Asia Minor, making them impassible, and disrupting all traffic, especially of Christians.” (Armenian Golgotha, ch. 4, pp. 34-35, trans. Peter Balakian) The policy of the Ottoman government was to force Armenians into wagons and ride them through the roads where they would be ambushed by criminals and butchered. This is how many Armenians were slaughtered. So many Armenians were murdered on the roads that in “the fall of 1915, after the widespread carnage, hoja Said, deputy from Harput, had travelled over the corpses of Armenians for three days on his way to Constantinople.” (Ibid, p. 120) The goal of the Ottoman Empire was the utter extermination of the Armenians. Talaat Pasha, one of the three leaders of the Ottoman Empire, openly declared:
“It is necessary to eradicate the Armenians … For, if 1000 Armenians are left alive by some misfortune, before long they will become 100,000 and again they will be trouble for the Turkish government.”
A Turkish youth from Sungurlu recounted how he saw a caravan of Armenian women and girls being sent to their slaughter, and how he told a young Armenian girl that if she converted to Islam and became his Muslim bride that he would save her. She refused and told him, “Instead of my becoming a Muslim, you become an Armenian and I will marry you.” He pressed her to fulfill his demands, but she refused. So he walked away. Balakian recounts what the Turkish mob did to her:
“The Turkish butchers made her lie down on the ground, and after crushing the girl’s virgin chest under her knees and inflicting various tortures and abuses, they cut off her head like a sheep’s.” (Ibid, pp. 114-115)
There were two Armenian politicians, Krikor Zohrab and Vartkes Serengulian, both were members of the Ottoman parliament. They thought that because they were parliamentarians that they would be safe. Both were arrested in August of 1915, put in a prison and then put on a train to Diyarbekir. While they were at a train station in Eregli, an Armenian railroad official secretly met Zohrab and Vartkes and offered to help them escape. But they said that as parliamentarians they had no fear for their lives. When they arrived in Adana, some influential Armenians got permission to meet with them, and in their meeting they offered the two Armenian parliamentarians help to escape. But again, Zohrab and Vartkes refused the help. They eventually reached Aleppo which as at that time under the governor, Mehmed Jelal, who was known to be friendly with the Armenians. He tried his best to keep Zohrab and Vartkes away from danger. Instead of sending them to prison, Jelal sent them to an inn, and he allowed for them to have visitors. Jelal requested from Minister Talaat permission to allow Zohrab and Vartkes to be set free in Aleppo. There was a reason for this. The roads between Ourfa and Diyarbekir were filled with bandits, and any Armenians who were caught on these roads were mercilessly butchered. Zohrab and Vartkes knew that they were going to be sent into those roads of slaughter. Reality sunk in, and they realized that their parliamentary status was not going to save them. They petitioned their old Turkish friends to save their lives. Talaat Pasha knew that Jelal was trying to protect Zohrab and Vartkes, and he immediately had Jelal terminated as governor and had him replaced with Hakim. The day after the termination of Jelal, Zohrab and Vartkes were put on the road to Ourfa in a two-horse carriage, and as soon as they reached Ourfa they were cast into prison alongside other Armenians, one of whom was a priest named Ardavaszt Kalenderian, the prelate of Ourfa. Zohrab and Vartkes were later invited to the home of Mahmoud Nedim, deputy from Ourfa, for dinner, not knowing that it was a trap. Before they could finish their meals, four policemen appeared and said: “The carriage is waiting. They are going to Harput.”
Death was nigh. They were placed inside a carriage, and in other carriage was placed the prelate, Ardavaszt Kalenderian. They knew what was going to happen to them. In the words of Balakian:
“When they reached a place called Karakopru, an hour from Ourfa, they were surrounded. The Circassians Mehmed and Khalil, with their armed and mounted chetes, halted the small caravan and ordered the police soldiers to leave the victims and return [to Ourfa], as their job was done.
Then the bandit chief took the doomed exiles from the carriages and nailed them to the ground with iron stakes that were a meter long. They proceeded to pluck all the hairs out of Archimandrite Ardavaszt’s beard, and after administering various tortures, they cut off his head. Then they beheaded everyone else. Finally they stripped them naked and cut off their limbs.”
The horrors of the Ottoman Empire are now returning, as Turkey rises as a new leviathan — the neo-Ottoman empire.
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