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Ara Sarafian (ed.) and Eric Avebury (foreword),
British Parliamentary Debates on the Armenian Genocide 1915-1918
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Ara Sarafian (ed.) and Eric Avebury (foreword), |
"The Turkish authorities within the little time of five months proceeded systematically
to exterminate a whole race out of their dominions. They did so not in thousands or tens of
thousands, but in hundreds of thousands. One estimate states that five hundred thousand persons
were killed within the five months, while according to another estimate the number was as many as
eight hundred thousand killed. There have been massacres of the Armenians before this last one. Ten
years ago thirty thousand were massacred, and ten years before that a hundred thousand. But those
massacres, which made the world shudder at the time, shrink into insignificance beside these
massacres which we have been unconsciously living through in the last six or seven
months."
Aneurin Williams, MP, 16 November 1915
"I think it may be said, without the least fear of exaggeration, that no more horrible
crime has been committed in the history of the world. This is a premeditative crime determined on
long ago. . It was a long-considered, deliberate policy to destroy and wipe out of existence the
Armenians in Turkey. It was systematically carried out. It was ordered from above."
Robert Cecil, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 16 November 1915