Thread by @lusine_djanyan

"My Grandmother's Tattoos" is
Swedish documentary about sexual slavery during the Armenian Genocide. Filmed in 2011 by director Suzanna Khartalyan. Recommended as a manual for scholars & students studying Armenian Genocide,as well as departments of conflictology &gender studies

Filmmaker had always found the tattoos on the hands & face of her grandmother, Khanoum, to be disturbing. It was not until she stumbled upon a large collection on images of kidnapped Armenian women & children in the League of Nations Near East Relief case notes from 1919-1926

that she began to understand what those tattoos might mean. The case notes reveal that most of these tattooed young women and girls were forced into prostitution or made to be concubines at horrifically young ages during the Armenian genocide. armenianweekly.com/2011/09/07/%E2…

Scandinavian missionaries traveled to the villages of the Bedouins, Kurds and Turks and redeemed enslaved Armenian women. One coin -1 life. Some enslaved women had already given birth to kids in slavery & refused to abandon them.

#ArmenianGenocide is not only 1.5 mln victims..

“Grandma’s Tattoos” that lifts the veil of thousands of forgotten women—survivors of the Armenian Genocide—who were forced into prostitution and tattooed to distinguish them from the locals.

genocide-museum.am/eng/online_exh…