CUNGUS, Turkey â?? The crumbling stone monastery, built into the hillside, stands as a forlorn monument to an awful past. So, too, does the decaying church on the other side of this mountain village. Farther out, a crevice is sliced into the earth, so deep that peering into it, one sees only blackness. Haunting for its history, it was there that a century ago, an untold number of Armenians were tossed to their deaths.
â??They threw them in that hole, all the men,â? said Vahit Sahin, 78, sitting at a cafe in the center of the village, reciting the stories that have passed through generations.
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