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Armenian thesis depends on forgeries, falsified documents and lies. Strikingly these lies were confirmed by the English and American authorities themselves in 1921..

After the Ottoman State was defeated in the 1st World War in 1918, the English and their allies arrested 144 high level Ottoman veteran or civil officials including the ex-prime ministers, ex-deputies, governors and many newspapermen, and banished them to Malta Island, claiming that they were responsibles for the death of Armenians.

However, the English authorities, had to set them all free in 1921, since they could not find any proof to be able to verdict them.

The following documents belong to the English archives:

Last word of Attorney General of Malta Tribunals

The letters written by H.M. Procurator-General’s Department to Mr Lancelot Oliphant (directed by Earl Curzon of Kedleston) dated July 29th, 1921 read:

‘It seems improbable that the charges made against some of the accused will be capable of legal proof in a Court of Law.’

(F.O. 371/6502/E.5845: L.Olipant (F.O.) to Mr Woods (Procurator-General’s Department)

5845/132/44 of May 31st,1921)

‘Until more precise information is available as to the nature of the evidence which will be forthcoming at the trials, the Attorney General does not feel that he is in a position to express any opinion as to the prospect of success in any of the cases sumitted for his consideration’

(F.O. 371/6504/E.8745: Woods (Procurator-General’s Department) to the Under Secretary of Stat efor FO., of July 29th, 1921)

Upon the receipt of Attorney General’s opinion Mr WS Edmonds minuted:

‘From this letter, it appears that the chances of obtaining convictions are almost nil…

‘The American Government, we have ascertained, cannot help with any evidence…

‘In addition to the ABSENCE OF LEGAL EVIDENCE there is the extreme unlikelihood that the French and Italians would agree to participate in constituting the court provided for in art.230 of the Treaty (of Sevres)….

‘ON THE OTHER HAND WE CERTAINLY CAN NOT RELEASE ANY TURKS UNTIL OUR OWN PRISONRES ARE RETURNED…. THE PROPER TIME FOR THE RELEASE OF THE TURKS SEEMS TO BE WHEN IT CAN BE DONE AS PART OF A GENERAL SETTLEMENT WITH TURKEY.’

‘IT IS REGRETTABLE THAT THE TURKS HAVE BEEN CONFINED AS LONG WITHOUT CHARGES BEING FORMULATED AGAINST THEM….’

(PRO-F.O. 371/6504/E.8745: Minutes by Edmonds of August 3rd,1921)

From: Şimşir, Bilal. Malta Sürgünleri. Bilgi Yayınevi, Ankara, 1985.

Please pay attention that the Ottoman government had been taken prisoners by the English and all the Ottoman archieves were under control of the English and their allies, and as the most important point an Armenian official was assigned to the Ottoman Archives. Pay also attention that the famous Blue Book, the telegrams of Aram Andonian and the diary of Ambassador Morgenthau which had already been published at that time were not considered as reliable proofs.

Please also note that during the trial in Berlin of the Armenian assassin Soghomon Tehlirian, who had murdered Talat Pasha in Berlin on March 15th, 1921, none of the Andonian documents were accepted by the court as evidence (Dashnakists’ book Justicier du Genocide, 1981, p.213).

So, those who claim a genocide are in lack of any historical document to prove their thesis. Is it just a coincidence that the Armenians have fiercefully been rejecting to discuss these events in historical joint commissions made up of Turkish and Armenian historians and historian from other countries. Is anybody who claims someone guilty not expected to be eager to prove his thesis and bring his evidences?