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509 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2009
The wretched Armenian mothers who were unable to take their underage children (two to six years old)—had to leave them on top of the already dead. Tearfully, the eyewitnesses told us how two large mounds of corpses of thousands of Armenian children rose up in front of Kanle-gechid, among them also numerous children who had not yet died and who extended their small hands, searching for their mothers. The eyes of these emaciated and neglected angels bore a look of pleading and protest, directed toward their mothers and toward God. And from their half-dead lips, some of them cried that sacred word "Mommy" [Maariiiig] for the last time. (225)These are the kinds of realities that most people never have any acquaintance with, thankfully. Yet they are realities, real violations that happened to real, inviolable persons—realities that one cannot bear very much of without going mad. But someone must bear them in mind because every plea and every protest from every little child demands an answer.