Dear friends! Please share this, and spread it all over social media! A LETTER FROM THE PEOPLE OF KESSAB BEING GIVEN REFUGE BY THE ARMENIAN CHURCH IN LATTAKIA. An appeal to all Armenians across the world from the Armenians in Kessab. On Mothers Day, March 21-2014, our beautiful town was brutally attacked by AL-QAEDA extremists and AL NUSRA FRONT which is linked to AL QAEDA, with the blessings and full military and logistics support of the Turkish government. Before sunrise, we woke up to the horror of a shower of missiles and rockets falling on our town. Thousands of extremists crossed the borders towards Kessab. Missiles were fired from Turkey, to destroy beautiful Kessab and to celebrate the approach of the 100th anniversary of “The Genocide of the Armenians”. Kesabtsi heroes defended the town with their simple hunting rifles until more forces from the Syrian government joined to fight back the horrific attack on our town. If Kessabtsis were not informed to leave their houses by those heroes, the world would have silently witnessed yet another genocide and stood by while the media gave them yet another version of lies. Kessab has always been the home to thousands of Armenians for centuries. The first agonizing tragedy in Kesab happened in April 1909, when a rabble of thousands of Turkish men attacked Kessab, robbing and burning houses; 161 Armenians were killed in this brutal attack. In 1915, during “The Genocide of the Armenians”, Turkish troops invaded Kessab and started deporting the inhabitants and killed almost 5000 Armenians from Kessab. “The Genocide of the Armenians” executed by the Turks in 1915 took the lives of one and a half million Armenians. More Armenians are getting killed and will get killed in Syria if nothing is done. The Arabs in Syria gave as shelter, took care of us, helped us get back on our feet and helped us survive through that horrible memory of death and destruction, and we will be eternally grateful to them. Since then we lived in peace and harmony with other sects, like a huge family in a home called Syria. Today, we need help once again, because sadly the Turkish government dared to attack Armenians one more time, ignoring the “Armenian Cause”. With this act Turkey has refused, yet again, to recognize “The Genocide of the Armenians” and is assisting in the murder of more Armenians in Syria. We have nothing against the Turkish people. We have lived as neighbors with them and want to continue to live as neighbors with them. The Turkish government is supporting and facilitating the murder of Kessabtsis by terrorists, that we plea against. We just want our town back, or whats remained of it. Because there are a lot of videos on YouTube that show how those extremists are destroying and burning our beautiful town. All of Syria knows whatever those extremists put their hands on, only death and destruction is left behind. Our homes have been taken from us, centuries of our heritage has been destroyed. This is a call to all Armenians. This is a call to humanity. The world needs to hear the truth. Erdogan and his government are war criminals. We need your help. We need you to take action. Our lives hang in the chance that you will do something to make sure we dont die as well. We were forced out of our homes and our town with nothing but the clothes we wear. If we stayed to gather even the bare necessities, we would have definitely died. Most of us cannot even escape because we dont have our passports or documents of identification. Please, invoke the intervention of your governments, of the UN, of any other authority that you believe can help us. All we want to do, is live. If you ignore this, we all will die a horrible death at the hands of these terrorists, by being butchered in cold blood like many other Armenians in Aleppo, Yacoubiyeh, Ghenemiyeh, and all around Syria. Those who you call rebels are extremists who came to Syria for jihad with many different nationalities s Afghans, Chechen, Saudis etc. Kessabtsis and all of Syria, saw them and were attacked and killed by them. The media cant hide the truth forever. You cant manipulate the lives of people forever. Those who you call rebels, were targeting and attacking civilians. Wake up, please. Dont you think enough innocent blood has been spilled? Dont you think enough destruction has been done? We all lived peacefully and happily just three years ago. This is not a revolution, this is war. And the Syrian army is now in Kessab fighting to make sure Armenians will go back to their homes safely.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:08:57 +0000