In 1978 President Carter stated that the Ottomans made a "concerted effort to eliminate all the Armenian people." Yet we need not rely exclusively upon the word of our own countrymen. past or present. We need not do so because in the search for confirmation of the Armenian genocide the Ottoman Government itself. ravaged by war and plagued by some sense of remorse. put the main perpetrators of genocide on trial in 1919. The empires indictment against its own Ministers of War. of Interior. and of the Navy. states that through any number of oral or clandestine means these officials authorized what in the language of the indicted was termed "an unending chain of massacres. pillage. and abuse." At it happens. much of the evidence for the trials also originated in formal telegrams that were in fact instructions from the central Government to the deportation provinces. It is perhaps hypocritical and certainly a harsh judgment of their peers that resulted in the four authorities who actually received the sentences being sentenced to death. There were additionally four others consigned to 15 years of hard labor.
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