Let Them Not Return Sayfo - the Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire |
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| Editor:
| Gaunt, David
Atto, Naures
Barthoma, Soner O. |
| Series title: | War and Genocide Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78533-498-6 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2017 |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $175.95 |
Book Description:
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The mass killing of Ottoman Armenians is today widely recognized, both within and outside scholarly circles, as an act of genocide. What is less well known, however, is that it took place within a broader context of Ottoman violence against minority groups during and after the First World War. Among those populations decimated were the indigenous Christian Assyrians (also known as Syriacs or Chaldeans) who lived in the borderlands of present-day Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. This volume...
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The mass killing of Ottoman Armenians is today widely recognized, both within and outside scholarly circles, as an act of genocide. What is less well known, however, is that it took place within a broader context of Ottoman violence against minority groups during and after the First World War. Among those populations decimated were the indigenous Christian Assyrians (also known as Syriacs or Chaldeans) who lived in the borderlands of present-day Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. This volume is the first scholarly edited collection focused on the Assyrian genocide, or "Sayfo" (literally, "sword" in Aramaic), presenting historical, psychological, anthropological, and political perspectives that shed much-needed light on a neglected historical atrocity.