PARIS. – French-Armenian Michel Petrosyan, who is over 90, brings testimonies of Sheriff Bey about the planned annihilation of the Armenian people in her memoirs “History of free France in the Levant.”

Sheriff served under the command of Mustafa Abdulhalik-Bey, the Prefecture of Aleppo. The testimony was made public on April 24, 1946 in Zebdani, Syria, Nouvelles d`Arménie reports.

“I confess that during my military activity I witnessed torturing scenes of pursue and bloody, severe slaughter, which was carried out by our soldiers against the deported Armenians in the region of Aleppo during the World War I. I am greatly sorry for those inhuman acts, which is improper for our state and nation. I strongly condemn those people from Unity and Progress Party who were responsible for those tortures at that time and ordered the annihilation. Deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians is on their conscious, while we could have lived in peace with those Armenians and be happy. Our leaders in authority committed a crime, which has no forgiveness. They must be imprisoned and sentenced severely, in order not to mix guilty Turks with innocent ones and that future generations knew it and did not forget. Those generations have the responsibility to clear the black page of our history. Thus, I call the two nations to live together in peace and security,” reads the testimony.