Dispatches of this were making their way back to Henry Morgenthau, the American ambassador in Constantinople. “In almost all cases the procedure was the same,” he wrote. “Here and there squads of 50 or 100 men would be taken, bound together in groups of four, and then marched out to a secluded spot a short distance from the village. Suddenly the sound of rifle shots would fill the air, and the Turkish soldiers who had acted as the escort would sullenly return to camp. Those sent to bury the bodies would find them almost invariably stark naked, for, as usual, the Turks had stolen all their
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