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The Aramean genocide was a genocide by the Ottoman Empire in which over 300,000 Arameans were killed during raids.
The Arameans call it the Sayfo, the Aramaic word for "sword". Many Arameans were considered unpure by the Ottoman Turks and were massacred for not giving up Christianity to become Muslims. Arameans lost their homes and possessions to the Red Sultan, Abdul Hamid II. Even before the genocide, they had been persecuted and forced to pay high taxes.
Since ancient times, during their conquest by the Babylonians, the Arameans have not had their own nation and have had a diaspora that has spread over the world to many different countries.
The Ottomans oppressed the Arameans, forced them to assimilate to their empires, and made them lose their independence. Those who have survived keep their common unity, especially in their deep Christian faith.
Personal experience quoted from "the cry unheard" documentary
edit| “ | "The muslims surrounded the town of Midyat, and the Arameans cried for water. Half of them died from dehydration" [1] | ” |
Overview of massacre
edit[[Fil:Armenian_population_map_1896.jpg|miniatyr|Map showing the Armenian (in colours) and Christian (in shadings) population of the eastern Ottoman provinces in the year 1896. In the areas where the share of Christian population was higher than that of the Armenians, the non-Armenian Christian population largely consisted of Arameans except in regions that were inhabited by Ottoman Greeks. Arameans lived mostly in the southern and the southeastern parts of the region.]] [[Fil:Forty_assyrians_die_a_day_9-22-1915.jpg|höger|miniatyr|40 Christians dying a day say Assyrian refugees - The Syracuse Herald, 1915.]] [[Fil:Assyrianmassacres.jpg|miniatyr|325x325px|The Washington Post and other leading newspapers in Western countries reported on the Assyrian genocide as it unfolded.]] [[Fil:Assyriangenocide2.jpg|höger|miniatyr|An article from The New York Times, March 27, 1915.]] The genocide was committed against the Aramean population of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.[2] The Aramean population of northern Mesopotamia included the Tur Abdin, Hakkari, Van, Siirt regions of present-day southeastern Turkey and the Urmia region of present-day northwestern Iran.
The Arameans were forcibly relocated and massacred by Ottoman and Kurdish forces between 1914 and 1920 under the regime of the Young Turks. Under leadership of Djevdet Bey, the Ottoman governor, at least 55,000 Aramean Christians were martyred. He is considered responsible for the massacres of Arameans in and around Van[3] Scholars have placed the number of Aramean victims from 300,000 to 750,000.[4][5][6][7]
The Assyrian genocide took place in the same context and time-period as the Armenian and Greek genocides.[8]
References
edit- ^ "The Cry Unheard" documentary about the Aramean Genocide
- ^ Aprim, Frederick A. Syriacs: The Continuous Saga, page 40
- ^ Ye'or, Bat; Miriam Kochan, David Littman (2002). Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. pp. 148–149. ISBN 0838639437. OCLC 47054791.
- ^ The plight of religious minorities: can religious pluralism survive? - Page 51 by United States Congress
- ^ The Armenian genocide: wartime radicalization or premeditated continuum - Page 272 edited by Richard Hovannisian
- ^ Not even my name: a true story - Page 131 by Thea Halo
- ^ The political dictionary of modern Middle East by Agnes G. Korbani.
- ^ Schaller, Dominik J. and Zimmerer, Jürgen (2008) "Late Ottoman genocides: the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and Young Turkish population and extermination policies - introduction," Journal of Genocide Research, 10:1, 7 - 14