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Armin Theophil Wegner (October 16, 1886 – May 17, 1978) was a German soldier and medic in World War I, a prolific author, and a human rights activist. [2] Stationed in the Ottoman Empire during World War I, Wegner was a witness to the Armenian genocide and the photographs he took documenting the plight of the Armenians today "comprises the core of witness images of the Genocide."
The Armenian genocide [a] was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced Islamization of others, primarily women and children.
Turkish–Armenian War: September–December 1920 First Republic of Armenia: Turkish Nationalist forces: 60,000 [13] –198,000 [14] Sumgait pogrom: February 1988 Sumgayit, Soviet Azerbaijan: Azerbaijani mobs 26 (official) to 200 [15] (nonofficial sources) Kirovabad pogrom: November 1988 Kirovabad, Soviet Azerbaijan: Azerbaijani mobs
I went with one of the cavasses of the English Legation, a soldier, my interpreter, and a photographer (Armenian) to the Gregorian [i.e., Armenian Apostolic] Cemetery ....Along the wall on the north, in a row 20 ft (6 m) wide and 150 ft (46 m) long, lay 321 dead bodies of the massacred Armenians. Many were fearfully mangled and mutilated.
The wall with images of fallen Armenian soldiers. According to Artsakhian President, mainly 18–20 year old soldiers fought in hostilities. [211] The Armenian authorities stated that 85 Armenian civilians were killed during the war, [c] while another 21 were missing. [57]
The Deir ez-Zor camps were concentration camps [1] in the heart of the Syrian Desert in which many thousands of Armenian refugees were forced into death marches during the Armenian genocide. The United States vice-consul in Aleppo , Jesse B. Jackson , estimated that Armenian refugees, as far east as Deir ez-Zor and south of Damascus , numbered ...
During World War I, Gorrini openly denounced the Armenian genocide through press articles and interviews and didn't hesitate to describe the policies of massacre perpetrated against the Armenians. He said if everyone had seen what he had, the condemnation of those acts would have been universal especially on the side of the Christian powers.
"Armenian Tells Of Death Pilgrimage", New York Times, July 27, 1919 Several times, entire camps in Ras ul-Ayn were liquidated as a prevention against typhoid epidemics. [ 11 ] According to US Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Sr. , the route to Ras-ul-Ain for Armenian travellers "was one prolonged horror".