Just published “We saw hell,” Simon Hyacinthe, Jacques and Marie-Dominique Rhetore Berré.

One hundred years after the first genocide in history, this book presents the stone of truth, crucially, brought by three Dominican repair of a black hole in our memory that remains denied, obscured or minus.

Held hostage in Mardin, the “Jerusalem of the East” between late 1914 and late 1916, the Marie-Dominique Berré brothers Jacques and Rhetore Hyacinthe Simon attend helplessly programmed annihilation, industrial, systematic Armenians that accompanies the killing to the string Assyrians, Chaldeans and Syriacs. Eyewitnesses, they will do the chroniclers of the unspeakable and record, each for its part, this unprecedented unleashing hell on earth.

For the first time, their precise depositions, lucid, terrible gathered in one volume which has unique value. They do not just give a burial to the anonymous victims of mass graves yesterday. They apply for alarm today. While the tragedy of Eastern Christians is repeated under the same heavens and the same indifference, their stories, always documented, sometimes apocalyptic, stand out in retrospect as prophetic.

A testimonial for the recognition of the crime. A will for revival of probity. Essential reading for all those who do not intend to hide behind ignorance and pretend granted: “I do not know.”

Jean-François Colosimo presentation