Directions: Read the following passage and then answer the question with complete sentences. Eitan Belkind (witness to the Armenian genocide): On the second day of our journey, we saw a corpse flowing in the Euphrates. We were surprised but the soldier accompanying us reassured us that this was a body of an Armenian. We found out that there was a camp nearby, on the other side of the Euphrates where Armenians deported from Armenia were being held. Our friend Shirinyan turned white and asked us to cross the Euphrates and go to the Armenian camp. We found several hundred people in the camp living in small handmade huts. The territory was clean; the huts were built on one line. We passed by huts and looked inside. We saw women and children. In one of the huts, Shirinyan found one of his aunts, who told that all men had been killed; only women and children remained. Shirinyan had no idea what had happened to his nation. Shocked, he began to cry on his aunt’s shoulder, but Jacob Baker and I tried to cheer him up and said that we still had our duty to do. We went on; the further we traveled the more floating corpses of Armenians we saw. After six days, we reached Der-el-Zor, an important city of the region. We paid a visit to the military Commandant of the city, the Circassian Colonel Ahmab Bey. We presented our papers and explained the purpose of our journey. My friend Jacob Baker was given an accommodation, but I and my friend Shirinyan were arrested. Later Jacob Baker visited us and said that we were detained for being Armenians. It turned out the Commandant believed I was also Armenian my first name Eitan, was written in Turkish [which then used Arabic characters – Translator’s note] with the sound “i” was presented by two dots subscript, the character “t” was written with two dots superscript, so the Commander read my name as Etian, which sounded perfectly Armenian. How does the account demonstrate the definition of a genocide? Explain with details! 4-5 sentences.
Directions: Read the following passage and then answer the question with complete sentences.
Eitan Belkind (witness to the Armenian genocide):
On the second day of our journey, we saw a corpse flowing in the Euphrates. We were surprised but the soldier accompanying us reassured us that this was a body of an Armenian. We found out that there was a camp nearby, on the other side of the Euphrates where Armenians deported from Armenia were being held. Our friend Shirinyan turned white and asked us to cross the Euphrates and go to the Armenian camp.
We found several hundred people in the camp living in small handmade huts. The territory was clean; the huts were built on one line. We passed by huts and looked inside. We saw women and children. In one of the huts, Shirinyan found one of his aunts, who told that all men had been killed; only women and children remained. Shirinyan had no idea what had happened to his nation. Shocked, he began to cry on his aunt’s shoulder, but Jacob Baker and I tried to cheer him up and said that we still had our duty to do. We went on; the further we traveled the more floating corpses of Armenians we saw.
After six days, we reached Der-el-Zor, an important city of the region. We paid a visit to the military Commandant of the city, the Circassian Colonel Ahmab Bey. We presented our papers and explained the purpose of our journey. My friend Jacob Baker was given an accommodation, but I and my friend Shirinyan were arrested. Later Jacob Baker visited us and said that we were detained for being Armenians. It turned out the Commandant believed I was also Armenian my first name Eitan, was written in Turkish [which then used Arabic characters – Translator’s note] with the sound “i” was presented by two dots subscript, the character “t” was written with two dots superscript, so the Commander read my name as Etian, which sounded perfectly Armenian.
How does the account demonstrate the definition of a genocide? Explain with details! 4-5 sentences.
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