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families
Women were separated from their children and husbands from their wives. -
rape victims
During the Armenian Genocide the rape of young girls was well documented; they would be assaulted in their homes before forced relocation, or on the forced marches into the Syrian desert. An eyewitness testified, "It was a very common thing for them to rape our girls in our presence. Very often they violated eight or ten year old girls, and as a consequence many would be unable to walk, and were shot." Another testified that every girl in her village aged over twelve, and some who were younger, -
young girls
hen the victims had travelled a few hours from their starting place, the Kurds would sweep down from their mountain homes. Rushing up to the young girls, they would lift their veils and carry the pretty ones off to the hills. -
babies
There women who held up their babies to strangers, begging them to take them and save them from their tormentors, and failing this, they would throw them into wells or leave them behind bushes., that at least they might die undisturbed. -
pregnant women
Even women who had just given birth to children would be forced to leave their beds and join the panic-stricken throng, their sleeping babies in their arms -
forced prostitution
small army of girls who had been sold as slaves - frequently for a medjidie, or about eighty cents - and who, after serving the brutal purposes of their purchasers, were forced to lead lives of prostitution. -
rapes
Heinrich Bergfeld, the German Consul to Trabzon reported “the numerous rapes of women and girls,” which crime he regarded as being part of a plan for “the virtually complete extermination of the Armenians.” The systematic use of rape during the genocide was testified to by Turkish, American, Austrian, and German witnesses and officials. -
Dirouhi Highgas
her and her family were uprooted by the Turkish ngovernment. they were forced to march with other Armenian families to the outskirts of Tarsus. they received months of starvation, beatings and killings. -
women trying to fight back
The women had succeeded in secreting money from their persecutors, keeping it in their mouths and hair; with this they would buy horses, only to have them repeatedly stolen by the Kurdish tribesmen. Finally the gendarmes, having robbed and beaten and violated and killed their charges for thirteen days, abandoned them altogether. -
sexual assaults
In 1895, Frederick Davis Greene, published The Armenian Crisis in Turkey: The Massacre of 1894, Its Antecedents and Significance. The book includes parts where it mentions women suffering from sexual attacks. -
change religion and tattoos
islamized and tattooed armenian women -
Forced Marches
women were regularly attacked on forced marches. -
Forced to marry
These Armenian women were forced to marry a Bedouin. -
pregnancy
One objective of genocidal rape is forced pregnancy; however, those unable to bear children are also subject to sexual assault. -
women raped
One objective of genocidal rape is pregnancy. Victims age ranged from children to elders. women were gang raped and commited suiide afterwards. -
rescued women
Rescued Armenian women near Euphrates river -
Karen Jeppe
Karen Jeppe, who worked for the League of Nations in Aleppo was attempting to have released the tens of thousands of women and children who had been abducted,. She siad that out of the thousands of women she had spoken to, only one had not been sexually abused. -
Karen Yeppe
Karen Yeppe, a Danish missionary who, with the assistance of some Arab tribe leaders, up until 1928, rescued approximately 2000 Armenian women and children from Muslim captivity.
