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Turkish goverment sets plan in motion
The Turks planned to expel and massacre Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. -
Armenian Population is deported
Armenians are deported to the desserts of Syria and Iraq. Most had already died before arriving due to thirst and starvation. -
Children burnt alive
The most extensive operations of mass burning of children took place in Bitlis province. Many Armenian women and children were burnt alive as the orphans of their orphanage. -
Poisoned Children
The method of poisoning of children also was implemented by Turkish physicians during these years. Survivors testify how in Agn, Khapert province some 500 Armenian orphans collected from all parts of that province were poisoned through the arrangement of the local pharmacist and physician. -
Systematic killing of children
Local Turkish physicians that Dr. Ali Saib, Director of Public Health of Trabzon province, systematically poisoned Armenian infants brought to the city's Red Crescent Hospital and ordered the drowning at the nearby Black Sea of those who resisted taking his “medicine.” Another method Dr. Saib applied in a house full of Armenian infants was the “steam bath” -
Mass Drownings
An equally large number of Armenian children were destroyed through mass drownings at the Mesopotamian lower ends of the Euphrates River, especially in the area of Deir Zor. According to the testimony of an Armenian survivor, Mustafa Sidki, Deir Zor's police chief, ordered some 2000 Armenian orphans carried to the banks of the Euphrates, hands and feet bound. - -
More Drownings of Children
Another center for mass murder through drowning involving especially children was the Kemakh Gorge on the Euphrates River. The US Ambassador Henry Morgenthau states that at Kemakh Gorge “hundreds of children were bayoneted by the Turks and thrown into the Euphrates.” -
Attempts at annihilating the children
The policy of Turkish Government to annihilate the Armenian children became more evident after the deportation, when a lot of orphans were gathered. Turkish Government opened some orphanages for these children. -
Orphans collected
Talaat ordered to collect and only keep those orphans who cannot remember the tortures to which their parents have been subjected. The others must be sending away with caravans. Danish missionary Sister Hansina Marcher visited one of these orphanages in Kharpert and surprised: She found about 700 Armenian childrenall of them were good clothed and fed- or at least she thought -
The truth about the orphanages
When Sister Hansina Marcher visited the orphanage again several days later, there were only 13 out of the 700 children left – the rest had disappeared. They had been taken to a lake and drowned, where ten thousands of Armenians drowned during the summer. -
Forced to convert their religions
Numerous orphans had been picked out and carried by the Turks and Kurds, Arabs during these years. The Armenian orphans were adopted by them and converted to Islam. The orphans in some orphanages, such as Antura orphanage, also were converted to Islam. -
Trafficking of women and children
Armenian deportees were displayed naked in auctions in Damascus, where they were sold as sex slaves. The trafficking of Armenian women and childrn as sex slaves was an important source of income for accompanying soldiers, while in Arab areas, they were sold at low prices. The German consul at Mosul reported that the maximum price for Armenian women was "5 piastres- a very low amount -
Young Turks on trial for their crimes
They were found guilty -
Overcoming sufferage
The children, who had survived the Armenian Genocide, had to overcome a lot of difficulties, to face a lot of trials to remain faithful to their religion and nationality. -
Rapes of Children and women
tens of thousands of women and children who had been abducted, that out of the thousands of women she had spoken to, only one had not been sexually abused.
