Let us look back at the historical record. The American Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire was an eyewitness in 1919. and he recounts his discussion with Turkish authorities. He says in his memoirs. "When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations they were merely giving the death warrant to an entire race. They understood this well and in their conversations with me made no particular attempt to conceal this fact." He went on to describe what he saw at the Euphrates River. and he said. as our eyes and ears in the Ottoman Empire in the year 1919 as a representative of the American government. "I have by no means told the most terrible details. for a complete narration of the sadistic orgies of which they. Armenian men and women. are victims can never be printed in an American publication.
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