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36. The Armenian Genocide: Road to the Deportations

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The CUP and Talat Pasha

The accounts we have by Turkish soldiers on the Eastern Front suggest exactly that. A medical corporal named Ali Rizat Eti talks about seeing scores of Armenians literally cross over the lines where the trenches were close enough they could do so. He becomes more and more hardened against them until he begins to talk about the accidental deaths of the Armenians on his own side implying that people are doing them in deliberately. So it's I mean, it is such a vicious circle. It is that beautifully explained vicious circle.

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