Round About Armenia the Record of a Journey Across the Balkans Through Turkey
Round About Armenia the Record of a Journey Across the Balkans Through Turkey
E a Brayley Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts
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This they stoutly refused, and they were all cut into small pieces, with the usual Turkish repulsive cruelty, the details of which are too obscene for publication. Many women, to escape from the Turks, committed suicide, previously killing their children ; some of them throwing themselves from the tops of mountains into abysses, to be broken to pieces against the rocks. THE SASSUN MASSACRES. One of my informants belonged to a family which had had ten male members ; now only five remained living.... The others had suffered similar bereavements. One of the peasants had lost sight of his wife during his flight. They were a newly-married couple, and her loss had greatly afflicted him. But in a village in Russian Armenia he found her again. She had managed to get there before him, and one can imagine the joy of this unexpected meeting. Each had given up the other for lost. I was told that the entire district of Sassun was desolate ; that there was not a habitation left standing except the hut over the pit at Galeguzan ; and, as the peasants vividly expressed it, that there was not even a sparrow to be found there.
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