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Scene from the Armenian Genocide: A French Artists Chilling
Portrayal of Events at the Euphrates River
Armenian News
Network / Groong
April 24, 2017
Special to Groong by Eugene L.
Taylor and Abraham D. Krikorian
Long Island, NY
The Euphrates was the tomb of thousands of the
deportees. The Armenians who did
not die were shot point blank by Kurds on the banks of the River —
Composition of G. Dutriac.
From a full page sepia image (5 X 8 inches) (by the very
well known French artist, illustrator, engraver Georges-Pierre Dutriac (1866-1958): Lectures
Pour Tous 18e Anne,
23e Livraison [Delivery date] 1er Septembre 1916, p.
1745, used as one of the illustrations in an article entitled Dans lHorreur des Massacres
dArmnie pp. 1742-1748. The use
of the word composition in French is
somewhat different from what it generally means in English. Here it sums up the entire plot and
structure, and relays at a glance in full artistic composition what happened
all-too-often to Armenian women and children on their death marches.
No single photograph could depict this particular scenario more
vividly.
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