Sayfo - An Account of the Assyrian Genocide (Alternative Histories)

Translates and annotates a rare eyewitness account of the 1915 Assyrian genocide during the First World WarSet in the context of the failing Ottoman state and rising Young Turk regimeDiscusses Armenians and Greeks as well as Assyrians in one primary sourceIncludes comments and interviews with perpetrators of eventsAnnotated with information about sites, people and eventsThis text is one of the few surviving eyewitness sources on the Assyrian genocide, written by a seminarian living in greater Tur Abdin (the southeast of today's Turkish state). The perspective is one that is little known and less discussed. Translated and annotated by a master of Syriac with an in-depth knowledge of modern Assyrian history, this text creates a unique opportunity for new and progressive scholarship. The Assyrian genocide is one of the forgotten atrocities of the 20th century. The physical destruction was but one element; it also caused demographic shifts, loss of territory, generational trauma and linguicide, along with cultural genocide/ethnocide and identity erosion SAYFO - AN ACCOUNT OF THE ASSYRIAN GENOCIDE Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Figures Preface About the Diary and its Author Background of the Region SPILT BLOOD, OR THE TRAGEDY OF THE LAMBS OF CHRIST 1 FROM THE AUTHOR 2 THE EMERGENCE AND SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY 3 DIFFICULT TIMES: PERSECUTION SUFFERED BY CHRISTIANITY IN VARIOUS PERIODS OF HISTORY 4 PERSECUTION IN THE MOST RECENT TIMES - THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 5 THE YEAR 1914 - THE BEGINNING OF WORLD WAR I 6 MY DIARY 7 A TESTIMONY OF AN EYEWITNESS: THE STORY OF A ROAD WORKER NAMED ABED MSHIHO, WHO SAW THE MOST 8 {THE CHRISTIANS OF THE CITY OF AMIDA AND ITS SUBORDINATE VILLAGES - EXECUTIONS AND THE EXODUS OF 1915 9 EXTERMINATION OF CHRISTIANS IN THE VILLAGES OF THE DISTRICT OF MARDIN IN 1914 10 THE SINJAR MOUNTAINS SUFFER ON BEHALF OF CHRISTIANS 11 THE FATE OF CHRISTIAN INHABITANTS OF OTHER LOCALITIES 12 POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ATTITUDES OF SOME PARTICIPANTS OF THE EXTERMINATIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY ANNEX 1 ANNEX 2 ANNEX 3 Index "This text is one of the few surviving eyewitness sources on the Assyrian genocide, written by a seminarian living in greater Tur Abdin (the southeast of today’s Turkish state). The perspective is one that is little known and less discussed. Translated and annotated by a master of Syriac with an in-depth knowledge of modern Assyrian history, this text creates a unique opportunity for new and progressive scholarship. The Assyrian genocide is one of the forgotten atrocities of the 20th century. The physical destruction was but one element; it also caused demographic shifts, loss of territory, generational trauma and linguicide, along with cultural genocide/ethnocide and identity erosion."-- Provided by publisher