At Four O'Clock in the Afternoon ...: Bones and Bodies, We Had to Walk Over Them.
- 240pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Both Guleeg Haroian and Eva Hightaian (née Haroian) survived the 1915 Genocide through forced transfers into Muslim homes. Guleeg endured two marriages to Muslims, surviving her first husband's death and two gang rapes. Eva was forcibly adopted into a Muslim household. Guleeg narrates her experiences during the 1895 Great Massacres and the 1915 Genocide, providing the only English-language oral history from a woman who lived through both events. After World War I, Guleeg located Eva in Mardin and reclaimed her from the Arab household. While there, Guleeg worked for the vorpahavak, which focused on collecting Armenian orphans. In the Afterword, Jinks draws parallels between the forced transfer of women and children during the Armenian Genocide and similar historical events, including the capture of indigenous children in Australia and North America for assimilation in boarding schools, the "ethnic unmixing" during India's Partition in 1947, where women from various communities faced abduction and violence, and the 2014 kidnapping of Yezidi women and children by Islamic State forces in Iraq, who were then sold or kept as slaves.
