Mediamax presents 100 Seconds project devoted to Armenian Genocide Centennial. The project is based on testimonies of Genocide survivors published by the National Archive of Armenia.

Anton Nossik is a civic activist, blogger and journalist.

For 100 seconds project Anton Nossik reads an extract from Armenian Genocide survivor Andranik Muradian's testimony.

National Archives of Armenia

Collection of Documents

Testimony of survivor Andranik Muradian on the massacre at the Village of Atanants in Gyavash district of Van province

[1916]

Baku

My mother told me that soldiers had come looking for the men, found that man in woman’s clothes and killed him.

I thought the danger had passed. But I was sadly mistaken. It was night when the soldiers broke in the second time with candles in their hands. My mother was taken by surprise and couldn’t manage to hide me like before. I was terribly scared. But since the first time they had thoroughly searched and had taken away all male children older than 1 year, they didn’t suspect that there could be other male children left. So they didn’t search again. I was saved.

Then soldiers came for suckling male babies under 1 year of age. I saw how they took two such babies from their mothers, put them on the floor and with a leg on their legs  and holding their head with a hand, slaughtered them like sheep.

They impaled the last baby on the bayonet and went out laughing loudly leaving the mothers who had lost their babies wailing.

Producers: Ara Tadevosyan

Filming: Anna Aleshkovskaya

Post Production: Tumo LLC

The source of Andranik Muradian 's testimony: National Archives of Armenia, Armenian Genocide by Ottoman Turkey, 1915, Testimony of survivors, Collection of documents, Yerevan-2013.

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