Seta's Armenian Blog: Berj Kassabian‎I am a descendant of a survivor of the Armenian Genocide! 1 hr · Edited · Viscount Bryce's Book ....The treatment of Armenians 1915-16

Wednesday 18 March 2015

Berj Kassabian‎I am a descendant of a survivor of the Armenian Genocide! 1 hr · Edited · Viscount Bryce's Book ....The treatment of Armenians 1915-16

Viscount Bryce writes: The Armenian colony in Ourfa is the southernmost outpost of Armenia east of the Euphrates, as the Jibal Mousa villages are of Armenian Cilicia. Here, too, for many months, the Armenians had before their eyes the fate of their compatriots from the north, for Ourfa is the half-way house on the road from Diyarbekir to Aleppo, and the remnants of many convoys from Mamouret-ul-Aziz, Erzeroum and beyond passed this way on their journey to the Arabian desert. ...