It is painful to be on good terms with those who kill our brothers. It would be better to suffer with them than to be under the protection of their persecutors... It is a shame for Europe. In one word, it could have prevented these horrors and it did not. It is true that the world knew very little about what happened here. The Turkish government bought the press, giving large sums to certain newspapers to publish only its news... I come to call you for help...
(Charles de Foucauld /1858–1916/, letter to his cousin, in which he describes the massacres of Armenians in 1896)
