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"It appears obvious that the Turkish authorities, anxious for the safety of their lines of communication, had no other alternative than to order the removal of their rebellious subjects to some place distant from the seat of hostilities, and their internment there.
The enforcement of this absolutely necessary precaution led to further risings on the part of the Armenians. The remaining Moslems were almost defenceless, because the regular garrisons were at the front as well as the greater part of the police and able-bodied men. Already infuriated at the reports of the atrocities committed at Van by the insurgents, in fear for their lives and those of their relatives, they were at last driven by the cumulative effect of these events into panic and retaliation and, as invariably happens in such cases, the innocent suffered with the guilty.
C.F. Dixon-Johnson, British author of the 1916 book, "The Armenians." ("West" Accounts, under "Articles.")"
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Considering you're using a BRITISH source, that would make you a hypocrite.
http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/his...nda-turks.html
From YOUR post;
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I will not be speaking only of British propaganda tonight, but of the effects of what the British propaganda machine produced in World War I.
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Originally Posted by Big K
"I could see that [the Armenians'] well-known disloyalty to the Ottoman Government and the fact that the territory which they inhabited was within the zone of military operations constituted grounds more or less justifiable for compelling them to depart their homes."
Robert Lansing, United States Secretary of State, November 1916
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Using the statement of someone who wasn't even in the country. That's an extremely weak source. Why not Henry Morgenthau, US ambassador to the Ottoman Empire 1913-1916??
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Henry Morgenthau Sr., the neutral American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, sent a cable to the U.S. State Department in 1915:
"Deportation of and excesses against peaceful Armenians is increasing and from harrowing reports of eye witnesses it appears that a campaign of race extermination is in progress under a pretext of reprisal against rebellion."
Oddly you don't quote him.
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check also these sources...
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The "British propaganda" that you yourself NOW use or the American statesman that wasn't in the empire at the time of the massacres? No thanks, I'll stick with the real world, not some demagogic fantasy world.