Events in Armenia, published in the Sonnenaufgang, and in the Allgemeine Missions-Zeitschrift, November, 1915:  “Twelve hundred of the most prominent Armenians and other Christians were arrested; 674 of them were embarked on thirteen Tigris barges, the prisoners were stripped of all their money and then of their clothes; after that they were thrown into the river.  Five or six priests were stripped naked one day, smeared with tar, and dragged through the streets.  For a whole month corpses were observed floating down the River Euphrates, hideously mutilated.  The prisons at Biredjik are filled regularly every day and emptied every night—­into the Euphrates.” . . .

From a German eye-witness:  “In Moush there are 25,000 Armenians; in the neighborhood there are 300 villages, each containing about 500 houses.  In all these not a single male Armenian is now to be seen, and hardly a woman.  Every officer boasted of the number he had personally massacred.  In Harpout the people have had to endure terrible tortures.  They have had their eyebrows plucked out, their breasts cut off, their nails torn off.  Their torturers hew off their feet or else hammer nails into them just as they do in shoeing horses.  When they die, the soldiers cry:  ‘Now let your Christ help you.’”

Memorandum forwarded by a foreign resident at H.:  “On the 1st of June, 3,000 people (mostly women, girls, and children) left H. accompanied by seventy policemen.  The policemen many times violated the women openly.  Another convoy of exiles joined the party, 18,000 in all.  The journey began, and on the way the pretty girls were carried off one by one, while the stragglers from the convoy were invariably killed.  On the fortieth day the convoy came in sight of the Euphrates.  Here they saw the bodies of more than 200 men floating in the river.  Here the Kurds took from them everything they had, so that for five days the whole convoy marched completely naked under the scorching sun.  For another five days they did not have a morsel of bread, nor even a drop of water.  They were scorched to death by thirst.  Hundreds upon hundreds fell dead on the way, their tongues were turned to charcoal, and when, at the end of five days, they reached a fountain, the whole convoy naturally rushed towards it.  But here the policemen barred the way and forbade them to take a single drop of water.  At another place where there were wells, some women threw themselves into them, as there was no rope or pail to draw up the water.  These women were drowned, the dead bodies still remaining there stinking in the water, and yet the rest of the people later drank from that well.  On the sixty-fourth day, they gathered together all the men and sick women and children and burned and killed them all.  On the seventieth day, when they reached Aleppo, there were left 150 women and children altogether out of the whole convoy of 18,000.”

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