Rawandiz massacre
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Attack type | Genocidal massacre |
| Deaths | ≈ 8,000 |
| Victims | Kurdish Muslims of Rawandiz |
| Perpetrators |  Russian Empire Assyrian volunteers |
| Defenders |  Kurdish natives of Rawandiz and other Kurdish volunteers |
The Rawandiz massacre was committed by the Russian Empire, and their allied Assyrian volunteers. It targeted the Kurdish Muslims from Rawandiz during May 1916. An estimated 8,000 Kurds were killed, which was 80% of the city, and the entire city was destroyed and looted.
Massacre[edit]
While World War I as going on in 1915, the Russians, with help from Assyrians, invaded the city of Rawandiz.[1] The Russians and their Assyrian allies massacred 80% of the Kurdish Muslim population of the city; after the town fell, only 20 percent of the Kurdish Muslim population managed to survive.[2] Not all of the Kurds from Rawandiz were shot, some were thrown into the famous Rawandiz gorge. Many Kurdish women also jumped to their deaths just to avoid being raped by the soldiers.[3] The Russian-Assyrian soldiers were unable to take Mount Korek, and after two to three months they were forced to withdraw due to the heavy Kurdish resistance.[4]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Assyrians & the Assyrian Identity in the Ottoman Empire". Zinda magazine. 1999-11-16. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
- ↑ Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908-1918, Michael A. Reynolds, page 158, 2011. Quote "The Russian's local allies often abetted this line of thinking. One Assyrian officer urged his superiors to drop the Russian rule of concilatings one's enemy peacefully in favor of all-out warfare on Muslims. The British Major E. W. C Noel described the extermination of the town of Rowanduz and the wholesale massacre of its [Muslim] inhabitants by what he dubbed Christian Army of Revenge of Agha Petros as one example of a long record of outrages
- ↑ MassisPost (2011-07-28). "The Kurds and the Armenian Genocide • MassisPost". MassisPost. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
- ↑ Hay, Rupert (1921). Two Years in Kurdistan: Experiences of a Political Officer, 1918-1920. p. 192. Search this book on
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