Vatican archive: Pope of Rome called on sultan stop the genocide

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Vatican archive: Pope of Rome called on sultan stop the genocide

 A couple of days ago the Vatican declared some documents from the Secret Archive would be displayed, which would include recordings on Armenian Genocide also.

“Ermenihaber.am” news website informs Sergio Pagano, the clergyman who runs Vatican Secret Archive declared documents on Armenian Genocide would be collected in a book and published. Pagano has particularly stated those documents cover the period of tragic events in 1894-1897. The documents go back to 1896 when the Pope of Rome Leo the 13th called on Turkish Sultan stop the genocide.
“Ermenihaber.am” has also revealed some documents from the secret archive, which is available below:

Evidence by a witness from Erzrum
-I saw them killing many children…I saw my cousin Dono escaping with the child on his shoulders. But gunfire and he fell down, the militia killed him just in front of the little child. I saw them killing the clergyman of the village. They’ve dipped in his eyes. Before killing him, they forced him to dance.

Written evidence by Mustafa Suleyman, a Turkish militia

- We invaded into Armenian villages. We killed everybody we could find and see irrespective of sex and age. The Kurds accompanying us were robbing the Armenians’ houses. Some were hiding in the school, but we killed them also, because we had a command. 800 Armenians were killed in the village. We killed Father Hovhannes, the clergyman, also. I didn’t kill a child, I’ve even saved 2. I was keeping them in my tent for 3 days. But one day I found them killed.

Source: Panorama.am

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