Libarid AZADIAN

FORWARD
The massacre of Armenians In 1915 by the Ottoman Turkish government Is an undeniable fact. Historians, prominent government officials, the press and people of goodwill have recorded the terrible events as they occurred. These records represent a day by day account of life and death of 1.5 million victims of the first genocide of the 20th century. Despite Turkey's desperate efforts of historical distortion and revisionism, the genocide cannot be undone, nor Its shame Ignored or denied. No amount of conniving, falsification of documents, destroying of records, cover-up, or even bribery and blackmail, can absolve Turkey of her terrible guilt.
The Turkish government devised a diabolic plan "to solve the Armenian question" once and for all by mass murder. In 1915, the plan was put Into execution and over a million Armenians perished. Armenians lost their homeland In what today Is called the eastern provinces of Turkey. The scant remnants of survivors scattered around the four corners of the globe.
The object of this publication Is to present, once again, authentic documentation of the genocide, not from Armenian sources, but by world-wide witnesses. Primarily, it is a protest against atrocities committed against a member of the human family that had trusted its fate to the government of Turkey. But above all, it is an endeavor to bring a proper perspective to history. It is an endeavor to put the powers to be on notice that appeasing the usurpers encourages further atrocities against those who, more than the predator, need the protection of great powers. Because, there will be no peace in our world until those oppressed nations attain freedom and recover what historically belongs to them.
Turkey has mobilized its entire state machinery — educational, economic, political, diplomatic — toward an extensive campaign of denial. This cover up is tantamount to a second crime, a perpetual crime as ignominious as the genocide itself.
In short, it is the intent of this book to subpoena the Turkish government to the tribunal of public opinion and let the world condemn Turkey for its barbaric acts against the Armenian nation.
THE EDITORS

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Forward................................................................. 11
Proclamation - Governor of California.................... 13
I. U.S. State Department Documents.................. 17
II. The Memoirs of Nairn Bey................................ 39
III. World Political Leaders.................................... 87
IV. Statements by Eyewitnesses,
Prominent International Figures and Groups .. 97
V. Press Accounts................................................. 121
VI. Proclamation. Resolutions and Verdict............ 139
26 Illustrations