Armenian Official Accounts of the Armenian Genocide:

A survivor from the city of Konia:

"They asked all the men and boys to separate from the women. There were some teen boys who were dressed like girls and disguised. They remained behind. But my father had to go. H was a grown man with a mustache. As soon as they separated the men, a group of armed men came from the other side of a hill and killed all the men right in front of our eyes. They killed them with bayonets at the end of their rifles, sticking them in their stomachs. Many of the women could not take it, and they threw themselves in the River Euphrates, and they too, died. They did this killing right in front of us. I saw my father being killed."

"Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide" - Complied and edited by Donald E. Miller and Lorna Touryan Miller

A survivor from the city Belikesir:

"Once we left, we started walking and walking for months. we had no donkeys and carts. My legs became all swollen because I was so tired. Sometimes my mother would carry me; otherwise, my older sister did. we had no shoes. We would walk seven or eight hours during the day. After that, you sit and eat bread or whatever is available. We'd cling to each other. Often the young girls would sit below, hiding, and the older girls sat over us."

"Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide" - Complied and edited by Donald E. Miller and Lorna Touryan Miller

A survivor from the region of Marash, in the desert of Der-Zor, Syria

"At the first station, we saw a lot of Armenians who had gotten there much earlier than us, and they had turned into skeletons. We were surrounded with skeletons so much that it felt like we were in hell. They were all hungry and thirsty, and they would look for familiar faces to help them. We became terribly discouraged, so hopeless that it is hard to explain exactly how we felt. From grief my father became ill."  

"Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide" - Complied and edited by Donald E. Miller and Lorna Touryan Miller