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Վերականգնման եւ հատուցման մոտավոր պատկերը

Estimations of Reparations and Compensation

for the damage suffered by the Armenian Nation

in Turkish Armenia and in the Armenian Republic of the Caucasus

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In order to understand the figures below it must first be said:

That during this World War, nowhere has there been put more fury to burn, to devastate, to pillage, and nowhere has been followed such an official system of annihilation as was done in Armenia;

That nowhere has there officially been given a complete power and freedom to a part of the population to massacre and pillage, as the Turkish Government allowed the Turks and Kurds to do in the Armenian regions;

And, finally, in devastated countries, there is nowhere where the work of restoration and recovery also presents as many difficulties as in Armenia, because of its geographic location, the lack of means of communications and the total ruin of the country.

NUMBER OF PROVEN FAMILIES

At the beginning of the war, the number of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire was 2,026,000 (see Annexes 1 and 2 of the memorandum). Deducting about 226,000 people from this number who, afterwards, have not been deported and who remained in Constantinople, in Smyrna (modern-day Izmir) and in some localities, the rest of the 1.8 million Armenians were massacred, deported or took refuge in the Caucasus, leaving all their possessions,

 

Part A. Damage to Population [part A, point 1-4 are missing in the original]

Average price Average price
previous

current

Per family

Francs

Francs

5 Each of the families above the sum of  294,339 had to pay 33 piastres.
Each of them had therefore to pay 14 sheep which is worth 20 francs each 280

1,680

Loss carried forward

12,188

6 Reserve payments/Provisions.
Food for 6 months, for the peasant and for his cattle, that each family had in store and needed to restart its business

287.5

2,873

7 Capital
Capital in Circulation

300

300

Total [per family]

17,043

Total for 270,000 families Fr  4,601,610,000

 

Part B. Damage to populations and cities and needs for rebuilding.

Merchants, craftsmen and industrialists.

Average price

Average price

previous

current

Per family

Francs

Francs

8 Real estate
Houses, shops, inns, factories, workshops, stores, mills, gardens, forests

1,000

15.200

9 Personal Property
Furniture, clothing, jewelry

1,800

9,000

10 Reserve payments/Provision.
Food for six months per family Amount to transfer

Balance carried forward

24,000

24.200

The personal properties in people’s stores need to be restored

575

5.750

11 Capital
Cash, securities, commodities and working capital of traders and industrialists and craftsmen per family

6,000

6,000

Total per family

35,950

For 90000 families

Fr 3,235,550

 

GENERAL INJURY/DAMAGE

 

Part C. Loss of Life
12 Compensation to surviving beneficiaries of 1,000,000 massacred people at a rate of 5,000 francs

5,000,000,000

13 Compensation for 50,000 mutilated, wounded, incurably sick, due to francs 5,000 per person

250,000,000

14 Compensation to survivors from deportation, numbering 346,350

346,350,000

Amount to transfer

Balance

5.596.350,000

5.596.350,000

  

15 Compensation for the deprivations of work for survivors from deportations, refugees abroad, deprivations of free exercise of any right of ownership and any profession and any opportunity to work for number of 800,000 people or 160,000 families at a rate of 4,000 francs per family

640,000,000

16 Compensation for requisitions, forced bribes, kickbacks, etc…, to non-

deported people

200,000,000

17 Expenditures for refugees abroad. Maintenance of hospitals, orphanages

and health institutions, etc

200,000,000

18 Compensation for total or partial destruction of institutions and religious constructions

75,000,000

83 Episcopal seats
1860 Churches and Chapels
220 Monasteries
26 High schools and seminaries
1439 secondary schools
42 orphanages including their personal property , antiques and religious manuscripts
19 Irrigation canals, springs, wells and others works

50,000,000

Total

6,761,350,000

 

SUMMARY
Part A

4,601,610,000

Part B

3,233,550,000

Part C

6,761,350,000

Grand total due to Turkish Armenians

14,598,510,000

 

REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA AND OTHER CAUCASUS PROVINCES INHABITED BY THE ARMENIANS

 

The calculation that we have the honor to submit herewith, concerns the Armenians of the Republic of Armenia and other Caucasus provinces, which have borne the heavy consequences of the war.

It is based on this data that the Republic of Armenia is deploying all efforts to create a regular economic life for each household of farmers, artisans, shopkeepers and other workers in different occupations. It even tries to reconstruct and rehabilitate churches, schools and other government institutions, without which civilized people cannot exist.

The sums mentioned are of course not an exact representation of the enormous damage incurred by the Nation. Calculations are approximate and may, thereafter, if necessary, be established in detail and accurately when information becomes available from official sources of government and private offices.

It should also be noted that the Armenians of the Caucasus at the beginning of 1918, in the time of invasion of Turks and Germans, when the Russians, unwilling to fight, abandoned the front, had to resist more than three million Muslims who joined in their wretched task, the Turkish invading forces. Their hard work was all the greater because they had in front of them the people who, despite their small number, still fought till the end for the cause of the Allies, their enemies.

 

A.- Absolutely devastated and destroyed communities the population of which was expelled.

 

121,800 families.
From which 1. 97,440 were engaged in agriculture
and 2. 24,360 in commerce, industry and other professions
121,800

  

1
These 97.440 families need, each on average, and based on current prices, for the creation of a new home:
1 Real property.

Houses, stables, barns, mills, gardens, forests and plantations of various trees

Fr. 3,000
2 Personal property. furniture, clothing, etc… 1,600
3 Agricultural implements. plows, scythes, sickles, carts, etc… 1,200
4 Cattle, pack animals, cow, horse, mule, sheep and goats 4,500

 

5 Working capital.

fodder, grains, seeds, hay, straw for livestock, fertilizer, etc…

3,250
Subtotal per family Fr. 13,530
Or, in total, for 97.440 families, sum of Fr. 1,320,312,000
Amount to transfer                                                 Fr. 1,320,312,000

 

2 The 24.360 other families who cared of Commerce, Industry and various professions, need, each, based on current prices,
1. Real Property.

Houses, workshops, factories, shops, various commercial businesses, orchards, etc…

Fr. 10,000
2. Personal Property

Furniture, clothing, tools, work, etc…

5,000
3. Capital.

provisions for food, materials, working capital

6,000
Fr. 21,000
Bringing the total to 24.360 families, a sum of Fr. 511,560,000
Fr. 1,831,872,000

 

B.- Communities not abandoned by the population but suffered from events of war, requisitions, and the effects of the reduction of the working population.

 

154,000 families
From which 1. 123,200 are engaged in agriculture
And             2. 30,800 in commerce, industry and other professions.
154,000

 

1 – For the reconstruction of their homes, these 123.200 families need,

each on average

1. Purchase of beasts of burden and other domestic animals Fr. 3,000
2. Agricultural implements 800
3. Repair of buildings and allowance of working capital 4,200
Fr. 8,000
Bringing the total for 123.200 families, the sum of Fr. 985,600,000

 

2-The other 30,800 families need, each on average:
1. For building repairs, workshops, factories, warehouses and various industrial enterprises, each Fr. 4,000
2. For the reorganization of the commercial and industrial firms 6,000
Fr. 10,000
Bringing the total to 30,800 families, the sum of Fr. 308,000,000
Fr. 1,293,600,000

 

C.- overall losses

1. Soldiers and officers who fell on the battlefields. About 35,000 men.
Allowances and pensions to the families, orphans, up and down, right in Fr. 5000 Fr. 175,000,000
Amount to transfer Fr. 175,000,000
Transfer Fr. 175,000,000

 

2. Officers, soldiers and civilians maimed, injured and made infirm. About 90,000 people.
Allowances and pensions at a rate of Fr. 5000 Fr. 450,000,000

 

3. Were murdered and who perished due to famine and the consequences of deportation.

Estimated 100,000 people.

Allowances and pensions at a rate of Fr. 1000 Fr. 500,000,000

 

4. Compensation for violence and alternatives measure of honor. Approximately 12,000 people.
A reason for Fr. 1000 Fr. 12,000,000

 

5. Compensation for the deprivation of work, the deportees and refugees deprivation of free exercise of any right of ownership and any profession, and deprivation of any opportunity to work for 35,000 families.
At the rate of Fr. 4000 Fr. 140,000,000

 

6.    Expenses incurred for Armenian Refugees from the Caucasus and

Persia.

Maintenance of hospitals refueling points, orphanages, asylums, medical supplies Fr. 100,000,000

 

7.    Reconstruction and repair of schools, churches and other public buildings 10,000,000
8.    Restoration of communication channels and the line of railway through the territory of the Republic 20,000,000

 

Total of Chapter A Fr. 1,831,872,000
B Fr. 1,203,600,000
C Fr. 1,407,000,000

 

Grand total due to the Armenian Republic Of Caucasus Fr. 4,532,472,000

  

General Summary
Amount Owed to the Turkish Armenians Fr. 14,398,510,000
Amount Owed the Armenian Republic of Caucasus Fr. 4,532,472,000
Grand Total Fr. 19,430,982,000

In support of the numbers in these tables, we consider it useful to recall that the Armenians, because of their industriousness, economic spirit, and renowned skills for trade and industry had a much better situation than all their neighbors.

The statistics that we presented in our memorandum to the Peace Conference establish that the vast majority of trade and industry was in the hands of Armenians in Minor Asia and the Caucasus.

These are centers of activity built by centuries of persistent work which were brought to ruins and which the Armenians have to rebuild.

AHARONIAN Chairman of the Delegation of the Republic of Armenia at the Peace Conference

BOGHOS NUBAR Chairman of Armenian National Delegation.