1. Raymond H. Kévorkian, “L'Exter-mination des déportés
arméniens ottomans dans les camps de concentration de Syrie-Mésopotamie (1915-1916),” Revue d'histoire arménienne contemporaine, 2, 1998, pp. 25-26.
2. This committee was composed of Rev. Harutyun Yesayan
(president), T. Jidejian, V. Kavafian, S. Jierjian, H. Barsumian, and Rev. Gejghanian.
3. Puzant Yeghiayan, Ժամանակակից Պատմութիւն
Կաթողիկոսութեան Հայոց Կիլիկիոյ [The recent history of the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia], Beirut, 1975, pp. 46-56.
4. Kévorkian, “L'Extermination des déportés arméniens
ottomans,” op. cit., pp. 26-27.
5. A number of religious dignitaries accompanied Sahag II
during his Jeru-salem exile: Bishop Yeghishe Garoyan, Bishop Yeprem Dohmuni, Bishop Kyud Mkhitarian, Rev. Khat Achabahian, and Rev. Giragos Markarian. In the following months, other Apostolic as well as Catholic Armenian clergymen who had been deported from various provinces of Asia Minor also went to Jerusalem.
6. This committee was headed by auxiliary bishop Khachadur
Boghigian.
7. Yeghiayan, op. cit., pp. 53-56.
8. Stephen Markarian (Dr. Samuel Shmavonian's nephew),
letter of 2 May 1916 to the Cairo head office, AGBU Central Archives/Cairo: Aleppo, no. 23, April 1910-December 1919.
9. Bishop Yeghishe Chilingirian, who was in Aleppo from
November 1916 to February 1917, affirms that there were twenty-five thousand to thirty thousand Armenian deportees in the city (Yeghishe Chilingirian, Նկարագրութիւնք Երուսաղէմի-Հալէպի-Դամասկոսի Գաղթականական եւ Վանական Զանազան Դիպաց եւ Անցքերու, 1914-1918 [Description of various events and incidents in the lives of the deportees and monks in Jerusalem, Aleppo, and Damascus, 1914-1918], Alexandria, 1922, p. 31).
10. Stanley E. Kerr, The Lions of Marash: Personal
Experiences with American Near East Relief, 1919-1922, New York, 1973, p. 28.
11. Jesse B. Jackson, “The Armenian Atrocities,” in United
States Official Documents on the Armenian Genocide, vol. 1, ed. Ara Sarafian, Watertown, Massachussets, 1993, pp. 149-152. This is a 4 March 1918 report submitted to the U.S. Secretary of State by the former American consul in Aleppo.
12. Anon., “Dr. Altunian,” Veradznunt (Paris), vol. 3/12, 12
June 1919, p. 203.
13. Sarafian, ed., United States Official Documents on the
Armenian Genocide, op. cit., p. 152.
14. Letter of 13 November 1918 from the Damascus branch
to the AGBU's Cairo headquarters. AGBU Central Archives/Cairo: Damascus, no. 12, 21 July 1910-26 March 1931.
15. Chilingirian, “Description,” op. cit., pp. 32-33.
16. Hilmar Kaiser, At the Crossroads of Der Zor: Death,
Survival and Humani-tarian Resistance in Aleppo, 1915-1917, Princeton, New Jersey, 2001, p. 27.
17. Ibid.
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