Seyfo Centre is hosting a lecture trip by Armenian historian Ara Sarafian, who has already given two fascinating talks in Los Angeles and San Diego. He spoke to a capacity audience of Assyrians, Armenians and their friends. He was introduced by Noray Betbaba, of the Seyfo Centre USA who noted that Sarafian and the Gomidas Institute have been a longstanding friend of Assyrians and have always spoken up for the recognition of the Seyfo. …

A remarkable thing about the bodies that we saw was that nearly all of them were naked. I have been informed that the people were forced to take off their clothes before they were killed, as the Mohammedans consider the clothes taken from a dead body to be defiled. …

So imminent and ever-present was the peril, and so fresh the memory of these dire events in the minds of the non-Mussulman subjects of the sultan, that illiterate Christian mothers had fallen into the habit of dating events as so many years before or after …