Author : David Gaunt
Release : 2006
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Massacres, Resistance, Protectors by : David Gaunt
Download or read book Massacres, Resistance, Protectors written by David Gaunt. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pioneering historical investigation of the Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syrian Christian minorities during World War I, who suffered the same fate as the Armenians. Ethnic cleansing and large-scale massacres occurred throughout northern Mesopotamia and parts of Ottoman-occupied Iran. Based on primary sources from official Russian, Turkish, and West European archives, as well as hitherto unused manuscript sources and oral histories published here for the first time, this book attempts to give a full picture of the events of 1915. The book concentrates on the Assyrians of Urmia and Hakkari and on the Syrians of Diyarbekir province, particularly in Tur Abdin.