Re: History of the Armenian Genocide
Maybe in front of public eyes French tried to show the world that they loved and cared for Armenians but in isolated areas and villages they tried to assimilate us and other orthodox Christians by every possible ways. I think this was a conspiracy that was conspired against orthodox Christians in that region and every big country had their dirty hands in it. We heard stories from our grandparents how French and English forces quietly left in the middle of the night just before turks came the next morning and massacred whole villages.
French did to my mother’s village and some other Armenian villages in Syria (these regions were part of Cilician kingdom long time ago) almost the same as turks did to Armenians in Cilicia by trying to assimilate them in every methods possible, by not allowing them to learn Armenian in their schools, closing Armenian churches, they brought in Franciscan missionaries and built a big church with a big school attached to it, they gave food and financial aid to the ones willing to convert, and once someone was converted they started brainwashing them in school or at church to hate their fellow Armenians, every once a while inflicting fights amongst them, sometimes these fights ended up with them killing each other. Most of the villagers were somehow related to each other. While turks were massacring Armenians in that region they refused to give Armenians a shelter and protection unless they were willing to convert. It was an Arab Muslim tribe who protected Armenians in that village against turkish massacres.
Maybe in front of public eyes French tried to show the world that they loved and cared for Armenians but in isolated areas and villages they tried to assimilate us and other orthodox Christians by every possible ways. I think this was a conspiracy that was conspired against orthodox Christians in that region and every big country had their dirty hands in it. We heard stories from our grandparents how French and English forces quietly left in the middle of the night just before turks came the next morning and massacred whole villages.
French did to my mother’s village and some other Armenian villages in Syria (these regions were part of Cilician kingdom long time ago) almost the same as turks did to Armenians in Cilicia by trying to assimilate them in every methods possible, by not allowing them to learn Armenian in their schools, closing Armenian churches, they brought in Franciscan missionaries and built a big church with a big school attached to it, they gave food and financial aid to the ones willing to convert, and once someone was converted they started brainwashing them in school or at church to hate their fellow Armenians, every once a while inflicting fights amongst them, sometimes these fights ended up with them killing each other. Most of the villagers were somehow related to each other. While turks were massacring Armenians in that region they refused to give Armenians a shelter and protection unless they were willing to convert. It was an Arab Muslim tribe who protected Armenians in that village against turkish massacres.
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