p. 16 | Armenian Massacres

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 30, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 30.

Armenian Massacres.

A writer in the Baptist Examiner, H. Allen Tupper, Jr., D.D., declares that the Armenian massacres, so far from being outbreaks of Moslem fanaticism, were, on the statements of many intelligent and trustworthy persons—French, English, Canadian, American, and native, some of whom were witnesses of the horrible scenes—“deliberate and preconceived,” “strictly limited with regard to place, time, nationality of the victims, and generally with regard to the method of killing and pillaging.” The massacres, which began at Trebizond, he tells us, were confined almost exclusively to Armenians. The chief object seems to have been to kill the largest number of Armenians of business capacity and intelligence, and to beggar their families by taking their property. Cruelty and rapacity were characteristic of every movement, and the authorities were either blind to the work, or assisted in it, when, if they would, they could have prevented it. All of which we have no doubt is true.