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NOT ALL ARMENIANS ARE IDIOTS
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How many of my readers,
I wonder, are familiar
with the name of Artin Dadian? -
a prominent member
of the Ottoman Administration
under Sultan Abdulhamid II,
who wrote the following letter
to our revolutionaries in 1898:
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"I suggest that today we exercise nothing
but patience and tolerance.
First, Europe shows complete indifference
and says there is no Armenian question
as far as they are concerned.
Second, the threat of the complete
annihilation of the Armenian nation
has not yet entirely passed,
and third, the people are tired
of revolutionary deeds
and are ready to patch up their differences
with the government in order to remain safe
from further terrible events
as have almost wiped out our people
from the face of the earth.
Fourth, various organizations
are fighting different causes,
each in their own way,
and in the middle of all this
stands one pitiful Artin Dadian,
who on the one hand begs the Sultan for mercy
by telling him that this would be
in the best thing for his Empire
and on the other hand
fights base individuals
who in order to attain their selfish aims
are even willing to sell their nation."
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How many of my readers,
I wonder, are familiar
with the name of Artin Dadian? -
a prominent member
of the Ottoman Administration
under Sultan Abdulhamid II,
who wrote the following letter
to our revolutionaries in 1898:
*
"I suggest that today we exercise nothing
but patience and tolerance.
First, Europe shows complete indifference
and says there is no Armenian question
as far as they are concerned.
Second, the threat of the complete
annihilation of the Armenian nation
has not yet entirely passed,
and third, the people are tired
of revolutionary deeds
and are ready to patch up their differences
with the government in order to remain safe
from further terrible events
as have almost wiped out our people
from the face of the earth.
Fourth, various organizations
are fighting different causes,
each in their own way,
and in the middle of all this
stands one pitiful Artin Dadian,
who on the one hand begs the Sultan for mercy
by telling him that this would be
in the best thing for his Empire
and on the other hand
fights base individuals
who in order to attain their selfish aims
are even willing to sell their nation."
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