Armenia: "Like a watchman awaits the dawn"

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Figaro Histoire

“Armenia, tragedy and hope”.

Le Figaro History

They were not content with simply depriving them of their land;

to deport them far from their homeland;

they had not only undertaken to massacre them by the thousands, to make them walk until they were exhausted, to shoot them, to hang them, to condemn them to starve to death;

an attempt had been made, according to the very terms of the great organizer of their liquidation, to exile them into nothingness.

The extermination of the Armenians of Anatolia (1.3 million victims, two thirds of the population) constituted in 1915 the first genocide of the 20th century.

But perhaps the most striking thing is that opening the march of the great massacres of the contemporary era and like that of the Jews, with which their destiny offers singular parallels, it had come to crown a history of several millennia during which they had hardly ceased to suffer violence and invasions.

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