"The ghastly slope was crowned by thousands of half-nude and still bleeding corpses, lying in heaps, or interlaced in death’s final embrace. … Overcome by the hideous spectacle, and jumping our horses over the mountains of cadavers, which obstructed our passage, I entered Siirt with my men. There we found the police and the populace engaged in sacking the homes of the Christians. … I met various sub-Governors of the province … who had directed the massacre in person. From their talk I realized at once that the thing had been arranged the day before … Meanwhile I had taken up my lodging in a handsome house belonging to Nestorians, which had been sacked like all the rest. There was nothing left in the way of furniture except a few broken chairs. Walls and floors were stained with blood."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Assyrian genocide
33 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Assyrian genocide →
Related Quotes
"While the death toll in the trenches of Western Europe were close to 2 million by the summer of 1915, the exterminati…"
"[T]he East Syrians [Assyrians] were twice the victims of a general genocide - first in the late fourteenth century by…"
"A very rough estimate of the total of Ottoman Assyrian dead as a result of massacre before and after April–May 1915, …"
"The full-scale Ottoman invasion of Persian Azerbeijan at the beginning of 1915 was accompanied by killings of both Ar…"
"Continuing working on a book on Danish-Armenian relations of course during the Armenian Genocide, but also before and…"
"The bloodstained annals of the East contain no record of massacres more unprovoked, more widespread or more terrible …"
"It is believed that in Turkey between 1913 and 1922, under the successive regimes of the Young Turks and of Mustafa K…"
"Turkish denialism of the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians is official, driven, constant, rampant and increasing each…"
"… Haydar Bey, the Governor of Mosul, came with Turkish units and cannons.... The Turks occupied our villages and burn…"
"The ethnic and religious balance that could have contributed to the well being of all the inhabitants of northern Mes…"