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Turkish Atrocities : Statements of American Missionaries on the Destruction of Christian Communities in Ottoman Turkey, 1915-1917 (Armenian Genocide Documentation Series)

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You might think some people predicted the present-day campaign of denial 85 years ago. In any case, James Barton, head of the American missionary outfit, got all his missionaries who were in Turkey during the Armenian massacres and deportations to file signed and sworn statements. The statements are valuable, because they come from parts of Turkey where there were few other foreign eye-witnesses. One of the statements was book-length, and that was published seperately as "Days of Tragedy in Armenia," by Henry Riggs.

Some of the statements were boring to me, because I didn't recognize the place names. But the book is like a collection of short stories, so I just skipped to the next author. It might make a neat classroom project to have each student read one of the 21 reports and make a presentation, marking up a map. Just a thought....