Massacres, Resistance, Protectors :

This pioneering historical investigation of the genocide of the Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syrian Christians of Upper Mesopotamia during World War I uses primary sources of Turkish, Russian, German, French, and Arabic origin, and oral histories by survivors and their descendants.

David Gaunt is professor of history at S÷dert÷rn University College, Stockholm, Sweden. He is a social historian who has written widely on the history of minorities and everyday life. His most recent work is the edited volume Collaboration and Resistance during the Holocaust: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (Bern, 2004).

Introduction and background	p. 1
Setting the stage : Kurds and Turks, Armenians and Syriacs	p. 29
The road to the fatal solution	p. 53
Playing with fire : occupied Urmia	p. 81
The ethic cleansing of the Hakkari Mountains	p. 121
Anatolia's heart of darkness	p. 151
The destruction of Midyat	p. 181
Sayfo : the general massacre of Northern Mesopotamia	p. 197
The battle for Azakh	p. 273
Implications and conclusions	p. 295
Notes on the sources	p. 317
Oral testimony on Tur Abdin 1914-15	p. 327
Documents on the Syriac population	p. 405
Documents on the number of victims	p. 433
Turkish archival documents on deportations and sieges	p. 445
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Massacres, Resistance, Protectors : Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I

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