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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (70337)	5/15/2003 11:07:10 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Since you are so expert... Is this your way of gracefully thanking me for correcting the errors in your previous statement? :-) your version of what happened to the Armenians I guess you are bringing this up at this point so that you can say "See? Ottomans were MEAN!" immediately afterwards. Anyway... I don't have a version on this incident and I cannot claim exhaustive knowledge about it. What I know on the subject is more or less this: The so-called Armenian Genocide took place during WWI, when Ottoman Empire was fighting on the side of Germany. Armenians collaborated with Russians and turned against the Ottoman Empire, with the goal of separation from the latter. Ottoman Empire sent part of its army to end the revolt, expel the Armenians in masses from Ottoman territory (towards Russia, I think). Some were killed during the armed conflict, others died en route through malnutrition and diseases and the occasional brutal killing, and many reached the place we now call "Armenia". I do not know the details, but it does seem to me like WWI was probably not the best time for the Ottoman Empire to take on a genocide if extermination of Armenians (a feat they never before attempted) was their intention. While inexcusable in it that so many people have perished, it does look like their aim was to quench the Armenians' rebellion ("treason", in fact, since this was wartime for the Empire) rather than to exterminate them. If you know more on the subject, I would be interested to hear your views. I am not familiar with that book. I just looked it up and frankly, it does not look like a historical work - "poignant story of the historical battle of Musa Dagh" etc. Does the book explain anywhere why the Ottoman army, in the middle of a World War they were losing, suddenly turned to Armenians?