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Moreover, during the night of the massacres none of the kurdish
stablemen was killed in the yard where the wagon wheels were kept;
although there was only one officer on guard. At least the officers
under my command have reported to me as such. Kurds were totally
unarmed there. A couple of meters away there were some 40
Armenian soldiers fully armed.
I do not want to go further and say, nor can I claim that all the
prominent Armenians were guilty. No. I saw conscientious people
asserting that pursuing of such policies was wrong; that such politics
was nothing but vileness. Those Armenians, rebelled against the
swinish instincts of their own people, and they even fought against
them. There were hardly any of those people among the Armenians.
They were being obliterated by the majority on the charges of
treason against the Armenian cause. Other Armenians were showing
themselves as the warriors of truth and goodness in the presence of
the others, and thus were trying hard to conceal the reality of their
being crossbred with the kurds by putting mask of hypocrisy;
considering themselves related to the issue used to retort Russian
reproaches saying, “You are Russians! You can never understand the
Armenian nation’s ideals!” Those people did not want to understand,
and could not understand that the nobility of the soul was an
untouched diamond and it would stay a diamond no matter what the
circumstances were.
Against the Russian reproaches and indignation for them on their
massacring the Turks there was another group claiming “How do you
know that the Turks did not do all this to libel the Armenians? Can
not it be a provocation?”
The events proved the forces affecting the intellectual Armenians. No
one can deny the events happened. Armenians sow wind, but they
have forgotten that one who sow wind would reap the whirlwind!
Deputy Commander of the Fortified Artillery Post at Deveboynu,
Erzurum
Commander of the 2nd Armenian-Russian Fortress Artillery Regiment
Prisoner of War
Lt.Col. Tverdohlebov
April 16/29, 1918
Erzurum
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