1915, on a wasteland of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, eight Armenian girls were nailed to the cross naked, and were about to reach the end of their lives.
Before this, they had just experienced inhuman humiliation, so they could not hide their entire bodies.
These girls are Armenians . What crime did they commit and would they be subject to such inhuman abuse?
1, Armenian origin
301, the Armenians established a Christian country on the border between Europe and Asia, probably on the high ground between Caucasus , Asia Minor and Persian . However, the entire country was later occupied by the powerful Ottoman Empire .
By the 19th century, national identity began to develop strongly, and with it, separatist ideas, Armenians did not like the power of the empire, which led to the first massacre of the Armenian population by Sultan Abdullah II.
It is estimated that between 1894 and 1896, about 300,000 Armenians died in this massacre. The tragic fate of the Armenians also kicked off from then on. Armenians were forcibly seized, women and children changed their religious beliefs, and imperial soldiers set fire to them, demanded protection fees, raped and murdered them.
However, it was just an occasional event at that time. By the beginning of the last century, the Armenians ushered in a bigger catastrophe!
In 1912 and 1913, the Ottoman Empire lost more than 270% of the land on the Balkan Peninsula due to the two Balkan Wars. Recapture of land in the Balkans became the main driving force for Turkish nationalism, a radical nationalist youth team gained full control of the government in 1913, and Turkish nationalism was at the heart of its ideology .
In November 1914, the Ottoman Empire joined the ally of World War I and was defeated by the Russian army. Ottoman After the Minister of Defense returned to Constantinople, he publicly accused the Armenians of actively assisting the Russians, resulting in his defeat.
is really a crime to be accused of, so why not worry about it! The Armenians took the blame for nothing.
2. After clearing the "enemy" inside
, the Turkish in the Ottoman Empire made an evil decision to solve all the problems of the Armenians, that is, to eliminate them all.
On April 20, 1915, an Armenian girl was teased by a Turkish on the street, and her two friends came to help her. As a result, the two Armenian men were killed by Turkish troops, causing a large-scale armed conflict in . So, the Turks finally found an excuse and began a bloody massacre against the Armenians.
In order to justify this crime, the Constantinople government carefully prepared a propaganda material on the matter, which declared: "The Armenians form an alliance with the enemy. They will riot in Istanbul, kill the leaders of the Commission on Unity and Progress, and successfully open the Dardanelles ."
On the evening of April 24, 1915, the Turkish government arrested more than 200 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople overnight, many of whom were killed later.
Next, they disarmed all the Armenians in the Turkish army and gathered them into labor camps to make roads or clean toilets, which eventually led to being killed.
3, Death march
All Armenians were forced to assemble to the designated location, and a huge team was taken to the desert of Syrian , thus starting their tragic migration, known as the "Death march".
During the expulsion process, the government sent "special forces" - composed of former criminals, almost a group of hooligans. They do not provide any replenishment facilities or supplies to the Armenians, even upon arrival at their destination.
The Ottoman army responsible for escorting Armenians not only condoned others to rob, kill and rape those Armenians, but also often even participated in it.All Armenians who were escorted, both men, women, and young, will be immediately massacred or abused if they dislike anyone. Since the purpose is to make as many people as possible go to death, the Armenian migration path is doomed to be full of hardships under high temperatures, lack of water, lack of rest and special forces, as well as Kurdish and incitement attacks. Along the way, hundreds of thousands of Armenians died on the way.
The following picture: After the end of World War I, the military court came to the scene to collect evidence.
Armenians were hung on gallows during the massacre.
The route of progress follows the longest route across the mountains. People stop while walking due to hunger, and sometimes it is really hard to take a step. They had no food, no water and medical treatment, and died one by one on the road - children, the elderly and pregnant women left first. Those who can't catch up with the team will be killed on the spot. Due to the death march, many corpses were left on the roadside. Over time, the bones became signposts for passing the caravan.
Many corpses were thrown into the Euphrates River, and the river water was stained red by blood. And some people who cannot bear the pain and suffering choose to jump into the river just to end this nightmare migration.
The brutality of the escorts to the Armenians is shocking. Burning, mutilation, and mass rape are common practices in Türkiye against Armenians. In the photo of
, these Armenian girls resisted with words because they could not bear the humiliation, and ended up suffering even more cruel revenge. The escorts took off the girls' clothes, raped them collectively on the spot, and then nailed them to the cross. There was no food or water. After a day or two of exposure to the sun, all eight girls died on the cross.
4, Crazy Holocaust
By August 1915, the bodies of migrants were spread all over the roads and the Euphrates River, and those who survived by chance were doomed to die. Life in the desert is not as good as death. There is no shelter in any form, and it is all living in the open air.
People were left in the scorching sun in the desert, with no water or food, and no place to avoid shade. Hundreds of miles are covered with bare deserts, and the desert is full of all kinds of people. Many of them died of starvation, thirst, from illness, or were killed.
A lieutenant of the Ottoman army described that there was a concentration camp inhabitants gathered together and then burned to death. Collective killings occur almost every day, including burning or shooting.
It is estimated that more than one million Armenians died throughout the Holocaust. Many foreign journalists, missionaries and others witnessed the incident from 1915 to 1916, and they sent reports of death marches and death concentration camps back to their respective countries.
The relevant photos in each article were taken by some European journalists at that time.
About 4,000 witnesses have told about these incidents. According to them, the worst of the Armenian Holocaust was the Armenian girls. Most of them were arrested and usually suffered multiple insults, and soldiers were not allowed to wear clothes. Until they were dying and no longer looked attractive, they were crucified again.
They were nailed to the cross naked, one or two days, letting them die on their own...
More than half a year later, passers-by could still find the dead bones of these girls on these crosses, which was creepy.
May all goodness be redeemed and all sins be repaid for eternity!
In the photo, an Armenian mother squatted next to her just-dead child, crying without tears.
article only represents personal opinions. Please correct me if there are any inappropriate points in the article, thank you.
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