Format:
1 Online-Ressource (300 pages)
ISBN:
9780190694630
Uniform Title:
Qui s'en souviendra
Content:
Attacks on the Assyrians have been mirrored in recent times, not least by the abuses committed by the Islamic State
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Author's Note -- Introduction: A Forgotten Genocide? -- Nation, people and churches -- On the eve of the massacre -- The genocide of 1915 -- Contemporary documentation -- Ethnocide and extermination -- Oblivion and its causes -- An international issue -- Renewal and memory -- 1. Witnesses to Genocide -- A terra incognita? -- Reporting the genocide -- The range of witnesses -- The Paris Peace Conference, 1919 -- International solidarity -- The national and international press: an essential intermediary -- Humanitarian aid -- 2. The Scenes and Acts of the Tragedy -- A centuries-old persecution -- The first centuries -- Ottoman antecedents to the 1915 massacres -- 1915: historic Mesopotamia -- Overview of the massacres -- The invasion of Hakkari by Turco-Kurdish forces -- The Syriacs -- Extermination and deportation: the children of the Desert -- 3. Strategy and Methodology of Eradication -- Genocide and ethnocide -- Lamenting a tragedy -- The massacres and the United Nations -- 4. After 1915: The Tragedy Continues -- 1918: from Salmas and Urmia towards Hamadan and Iraq -- Assyrians at arms -- The Assyrian Levies -- The Turkey-Iraq frontier (1925) -- Fleeing Turkey -- Conclusion: Returning to the Stage of History -- The impact of the diaspora -- Preserving memory -- Iraq: homeland or safe haven? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190633462
Additional Edition:
Print version Yacoub, Joseph Year of the Sword : The Assyrian Christian Genocide, A History Oxford : Oxford University Press,c2016
Language:
English
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