The Children Were Burnt Alive
Armenian Genocide — The Inconvenient Truth
The decision was made around March/April 1915 to exterminate Armenians in Turkey. The Armenian Genocide was the systematic mass murder and ethnic cleansing of around one million ethnic Armenians from Anatolia (Asia Minor) and adjoining regions by the Ottoman Empire and its ruling party, the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), during World War I.
Children Burnt Alive
Below, the children with carefree and innocent eyes are the Armenian girls of the Mush orphanage with their Teacher Margaret.
In the summer of 1915, the city of Mush was set on fire by the Turkish army, who burned thousands of Armenians alive in their houses. During the massacres of the Armenian population in Mush, Teacher Margaret and her children were also burnt alive. A direct witness of the Turkish crimes, Sister Biørn (photographer) suffered intense anguish losing all the children of her orphanage in one day, to whom she had given her maternal love and care over years. The screams and calls of help from the helpless children were embedded in the memory of Bodil Biørn, who has worked in the…
