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Ras al-Ayn Camps

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203:"While we were marching the Turkish soldiers with drawn swords suddenly made their way through the crowd, and, like beasts let loose in a flock of sheep, killed and wounded many. The rest still dragged on under the influence of the bloody swords until Ras-ul-Ain. Desert was reached. This place was especially noted for the carrying of their butchery, for all that were sent to these parts were sent there to die." 116: 178:: "All the bodies, without exception, were entirely naked and the wounds that had been inflicted showed that the victims had been killed, after having been subjected to unspeakable brutalities". The local 170:, Rakka and Ras ul-Ain.. In 1916, over 80,000 of Armenians were slaughtered in Ras al-Ayn. According to reports, in one day alone 300-400 women arrived to the camps completely naked and were plundered by 158:(usually made up of women and children) began to arrive after the exhausting journey. In April 1916 the German consul reported "again massacre at Ras ul Ain": "300 to 500 deportees are taken out of the 192:
Defterdar Djemal, was the official High Executioner of Armenians at Ras-el-Ain: "this brute, after robbing them of their jewelry chose the youngest girls of good families and kept them for a
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The Widening circle of genocide, Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide (Jerusalem), V. Dadrian, 1994, p. 103
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Ras al-Ayn became a major collecting place for deported Armenians from Anatolia. By September 1915, groups of
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German responsibility in the Armenian genocide: a review of the historical evidence of German complicity
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each day and butchered at a distance of 10 km. from Ras ul Ain" In the summer of 1916 new rounds of
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Several times, entire camps in Ras ul-Ayn were liquidated as a prevention against
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Mass murder and abuse of Ottoman Armenian civilians during the
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were improvised by the Turkish government in the areas of
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Deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915
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Survivors: An Oral History Of The Armenian Genocide
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Index

Concentration camp
Armenian genocide
Ras al-Ayn
Ottoman Empire
Syria
Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire
Ottoman army
Armenians

death camps
Ras al-Ayn
Armenians
Armenian genocide
refugees
concentration camp
massacres
Deir ez-Zor
Chechens
gendarmerie
Bey
Aleppo
harem
New York Times
typhoid
Henry Morgenthau, Sr.
Aram Andonian
The Cut
Death march
Deir ez-Zor Camps

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