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98 ARMENIA AND ITS SORROWS<br />
reached. The list will be found in Blue Book,<br />
Turkey, No 2—1890.<br />
The British Ambassador thus summarises the whole<br />
account : " It may be roughly stated that the recent<br />
disturbances have devastated, as far as the <strong>Armenia</strong>ns<br />
are concerned, the whole of the provinces to which<br />
the scheme of reforms was intended to apply ; that<br />
over an extent of territory considerably larger than<br />
Great Britain, all the large towns, with the exception<br />
of Van, Samsoun, <strong>and</strong> Moush, have been the scene of<br />
massacres of the <strong>Armenia</strong>n population, while the<br />
<strong>Armenia</strong>n villages have been almost entirely destroyed.<br />
A moderate estimate puts the loss of life at 30,000.<br />
The survivors are in a state of absolute destitution,<br />
<strong>and</strong> in many places they are forced to turn Mussulman.<br />
The charge against the <strong>Armenia</strong>ns of having been<br />
the first to offer provocation cannot be sustained.<br />
The participation of the soljliers in the massacres is<br />
in many places established beyond doubt."
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