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Written by Hye Etch
Sunday, 05 July 2009 07:01 |
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| Personal Experiences & Stories
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The following stories and eye witness accounts by foreigners, missionaries and survivors of the first genocide of the 20th century, were recorded during and after the Armenian genocide. To read the complete stories, please click on the underlined words. - Henry Riggs, a third generation American missionary in the Ottoman Empire, wrote "Days of Tragedy in Armenia" after his departure from Harpoot (Kharpert) in 1917. This account, which was never fully edited, was submitted in 1918 to an American government commission investigating various aspects of World War I, including the destruction of Armenian communities in the Ottoman Empire. These reports supplemented the United States State Department's own diplomatic and consular records, written by American officials, on the Armenian Genocide. - Rev. Riggs avoided mentioning a number of people by name in his narrative. This was presumably to maintain some sense of anonymity for the victims of Genocide, and to safeguard the well-being of certain individuals who still remained in the Ottoman Empire in 1917.
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