Who was Rosa Kirasian? I wouldn't have heard of her, ever, had it not been for an article in this month's Geo on the Armenian Genocide that happened in Turkey in 1915-16. The article featured photos - that would disturb anyone calling himself or herself 'human' - and eye-witness accounts by diplomats, nurses as well as survivors. One such account by a survivor mentioned Rosa Kirasian - an Armenian young woman who was part of the group that was displaced from their villages and taken on a death march. The survivor narrates that when good-lloking women in the group were being abducted by bandits, villagers and guards, Rosa surrendered to a guard because he promised that he won't harm her and get her married to his brother instead.
Try as I might, I couldn't simply move past this account. Rosa Kirasian wouldn't let me do so. I wondered about her fate. Did she make a right choice? Was she able to marry that guard's brother and live a quite domestic life? Or was she betrayed, violated and perhaps killed? If she survived this horror, was she able to ever get past it? Why is it that the old, the children and the women end up getting the worst in all wars?
Even the omniscient Google was not able to dig up anything about her. So what happened to Rosa Kirasian?
Try as I might, I couldn't simply move past this account. Rosa Kirasian wouldn't let me do so. I wondered about her fate. Did she make a right choice? Was she able to marry that guard's brother and live a quite domestic life? Or was she betrayed, violated and perhaps killed? If she survived this horror, was she able to ever get past it? Why is it that the old, the children and the women end up getting the worst in all wars?
Even the omniscient Google was not able to dig up anything about her. So what happened to Rosa Kirasian?
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