The Banality of Indifference by Yair Auron

Author:Yair Auron [Auron, Yair]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, General, Social Science, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781351305396
Google: Xm5QDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-29T05:01:22+00:00

This detailed story is mentioned in the British report in two lines. It tells of a young woman, from a good family, recently married, whose husband was murdered in front of her. She was forced into her present situation (prostitution) only after a straggle of several months to live chastely. All of the accompanying musings and conclusions were deleted.

Aaron Aaronsohn writes in his report: “The wholesale massacre of the Jews ordered by the Roman General Titus is the only record in History to be paralleled with the wholesale massacre of the Armenians. And now, just as then, here, just like there, it was a Government scheme.”

“Pro Armenia” contains additional descriptions and Aaron’s personal testimony, such as a description of the hunt of the Armenians by the Turkish police in Constantinople, brutal arrests in broad daylight, in public parks, at large gatherings of people, where they would gather up their prey.

Aaron pays special attention to the disappearance of a gentleman of about forty-five and his three-year-old son while they were walking in the park at about five p.m.: “The writer has been witness to one such case which will stay for years in his memory.” He recounts the gentleman’s arrest by the police and adds, “The distressed look of the poor man with the small boy clinging in his arms is indescribable, and the whole scene was so quickly and noiselessly performed that practically no one besides the writer noticed the fact. Of such a captive one never hears any more, he disappears for ever.”

He deals in his report with questions of principle, which any discussion of genocide is obliged to treat, such as Armenian collaborators, who turned other Armenians into the Turkish police in Constantinople. Another question that he raises is the following:

It might be asked: what part of the population or of the organized public services was carrying out those wholesale destructions of Armenian life and property. The reply is that no class of the Mohammedan population, rich or poor, high or low, young or old, men or women kept away from murdering and robbing, which of course does not mean to say that every individual Mohammedan is to be blamed, without exceptions. A few noteworthy exceptions were reported, cases of individual help tendered by old Turks are known, but they were very rare, isolated and always rebuffed by the Authorities, military and civil.

These passages, too, were deleted from the British report.

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