Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1894 — FLAYED ALIVE. [ARTICLE]

FLAYED ALIVE.

Further Detail* of the KardUh Atroeltlee la Armenia. A cable from Tiflis, Russian Transcaucasia, dated Dec. 16, says: For nineteen days the residents of Armenian villages, where the outrages were perpetrated, -fought against the Kurds. The. Armenians lost only ten warriors, while the Kurds lost 569. When the regular troops, under Zelki Pasha, appeared and Armeniags were compelled to succumb. After Zelka Pasha’s treachery in offering peace, sixty young Armenian men were seized and tortured horribly for three days. Then all were muraered and their bodies buried in a ditch. Among the Armenian heroes who lost their lives the writer mentions Derbedrose, who, with his own hand, killed seven Kurds in a fair fight. He was captured and flayed to the waist. Pieces of his flesh were cutoff, broiled and eaten by the savage Turks, while he was still alive