"'It Was in Armenia That I Learned Fear'
Rose Wilder Lane and the Armenian Genocide"
"Writing in small-town Mansfield, Missouri, for the Missouri Ruralist, Lane’s mother addressed the subject herself in a 1918 column. In an era in which the word “rape” was unmentionable (“outrage” was one common euphemism), Wilder threw her usual decorum to the wind as she seethed over the institutionalized rape and brutal murders of Armenian women. “Every war is more or less a woman’s war, God knows, but is this in an especial way a woman’s war?” she demanded to know. Wilder went on to detail how women had been “stripped naked and driven along the roads of their own country[,] a sport for drunken soldiery. Thrown by hundreds into the rivers when the crowds of soldiers had tired of them—this was a part of the war in Armenia.” The “horror and cruelty” of these events stunned her."
Sallie Ketcham
"'It Was in Armenia That I Learned Fear'
Rose Wilder Lane and the Armenian Genocide"
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