Fact #20, 345 days to go: In August 1916, to bring relief to the Armenians in the region, Jesse B. Jackson sent one of his part-time employees, German businessman Auguste Bernau, to the towns of Meskene, Rakka, and Sebka, southeast of Aleppo and close to the death zone of Deir el-Zor. Bernau’s report of his mission was forwarded by Jackson to U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing and President Woodrow Wilson in Washington. “It is impossible to give an account of the impression of horror which my journey across the Armenian encampments scattered all along the Euphrates has given me. Brutally dragged out of their native land, naked, starving, robbed of everything, I found them penned up in the open like cattle. You see emanciated and wan faces, wandering skeletons, lurking for all kinds of diseases and victims moreover to hunger. The young girls, often even very young ones, have become the booty of the Musulmans. If they weren’t killed, they were raped and sold into slavery or harems.” #ArmenianGenocide #100yearsofdenial #recognizegenocide #Turkeyfailed #Obamafailed #Countdown #365facts
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 05:47:37 +0000