Infobox civilian attack title Hamidianmassacres partof Armenian Genocide image 1895erzurum victims.jpg ... to the Hamidianmassacres. This persecution strengthened nationalistic sentiment among Armenians ... 1894 1896 simple Hamidianmassacres uk ... perpetrators perpetrator susperps susperp weapons numparts numpart dfens dfen footage The Hamidianmassacres lang hy , also referred to as the Armenian Massacres of 1894 1896 ref name Adalian Historical Dictionary of Armenia By Rouben Paul Adalian page 154 ref and Great Massacres ref ... Fifty Thousand Orphans made So by the Turkish Massacres of Armenians . The New York Times . December 18, 1896. ref The massacres are named after Sultan Abdul Hamid II , whose efforts to reinforce ... very guts. ref name Akcam, Taner 2006, page 44 Although the massacres were mainly aimed at the Armenians, it turned into indiscriminate anti Christian pogroms in some cases such as in the Massacres of Diyarbakir 1895 Massacres of Diyarbakir . One of the most serious incidents occurred in Armenians Armenian ... page 119 ref This occurred at a time when the telegraph could spread news around the world and the massacres .... ref Another reason for the massacres was the channeling of Kurdish bandits upon Armenians instead .... Historian Lord Kinross writes that massacres of this kind were often achieved by gathering Muslims ..., 1997, p. 223. ISBN 0 3121 0168 6. ref Massacres Image Agha1 3 .jpg thumb 220px left Haji Agha .... The Burning Tigris , pp. 57 58. ref Soon, massacres of Armenians broke out in Constantinople and then engulfed ... in flames, with massacres everywhere and all Christians being murdered without distinction. ref fr icon ... also attacked during the massacres. The French diplomatic correspondence shows that the Hamidiye carried out massacres not only of Armenians but also of Assyrian people Assyrians living in Diyarbakir ... massacres in the empire were widely reported in Europe and the United States and drew strong responses ... more details
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Infobox civilian attack title Drenica massacres image Drenica region.png caption Municipalities of Glogovac and Sk nderaj in Drenica region in central Kosovo . location Drenica , Kosovo , FR Yugoslavia target Kosovo Albanians date Feb March 1998 br March June 1999 time timezone Central European Time type Mass Killings fatalities The attacks on the villages of Cirez, Liko an and Prekaz left 83 villagers dead, including at least 24 women and children. ref name Drenica Region injuries perps Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslav Police motive The Drenica massacres lang sr , Masakri u Drenici , lang al Masakra n Drenic were a series of killings of Kosovo Albanian civilians committed by Yugoslavia n special police forces in the Drenica region in central Kosovo . ref name hrw http www.hrw.org legacy reports 2001 kosovo undword 01.htm The Drenica Massacres Human Rights Watch ref According to Human Rights Watch , abuses in the Drenica region during the Kosovo War 1998&ndash ... Region Massacres in 1998 main Attack on Prekaz Likoshane massacre In January 1998, Yugoslavian special ... massacres. ref name ess http www.ess.uwe.ac.uk kosovo Kosovo Massacres5.htm Drenica Region Massacres ... ref people gathered for the burial of 24 Drenica massacre victims in the village of Liko an. These massacres ... ref name hrw The Drenica massacres in 1998 marked the beginning of the Kosovo war Kosovo War . After ... ref Massacres in 1999 main Izbica massacre File Izbica mass burial site.jpg thumb Satellite imagery ... in Drenica, and we are going to end it here. ref See also List of massacres in Yugoslavia Attack ... legacy reports 2001 kosovo undword 01.htm The Drenica Massacres Human Right Watch http www.ess.uwe.ac.uk kosovo Kosovo Massacres5.htm Drenica Region Massacres Feb March 1998 http www.unhcr.org ... in Kosovo Yugoslav wars DEFAULTSORT Drenica Massacres Category Conflicts in 1999 Category Kosovo War ... Category Massacres in Yugoslavia Category History of Kosovo Category 1998 in Kosovo Category 1999 ... more details
on the eve of the September Massacres was dire. No individual or organized body could truly ... fear, hatred, and prejudice proved to be the seeds of the September Massacres Citation needed ... issued the Brunswick Manifesto from Koblenz Coblenz that is the real cause for the September massacres .... September Massacres When news that Brunswick had captured Verdun reached the Convention, they ordered ... the victims the massacres occurred during a time of great and rising resentment against the Roman Catholic ... Paris 1793 . See also The Legislative Assembly and the fall of the French monarchy List of massacres ... Massacres 2 7 Sept. 1792 http chnm.gmu.edu revolution d 392 The September Massacres witnessed by Restif de la Bretonne http chnm.gmu.edu revolution d 393 The September Massacres witnessed by Earl ... of the French Revolution Category Anti Catholicism in France Category History of Paris Category Massacres in France Category Prison massacres Category Pontifical Swiss Guard Category People killed in the French Revolution als Septembermorde ca Massacres del 2 de setembre de Septembermassaker es Masacres de septiembre fr Massacres de Septembre ko 9 it Massacri di settembre lb Septembermassakeren ... more details
The Mesovouno massacre lang el refers to two massacres perpetrated by members of the Wehrmacht in the village of Mesovouno in Ptolemaida , Greece, during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II Axis occupation of Greece , carried out on 23 October 1941 and 22 April 1944. ref . . . , , , volume 10 pg 289, Athens 1983 ref On 23 October 1941, the Wehrmacht soldiers gathered all men aged 16 69 years old, killed them with machine guns and set the houses on fire. In 1944 the village was razed by Nazi troops two days before the massacre of the village Pyrgoi in Ptolemaida. A total of 268 civilians were killed. ref http www.hri.org news greek ana 2005 05 10 24.ana.html 05 Papoulias again touches on issue of war reparations ref ref , , , Athens 1981 pg 45 6 ref ref http www.ekathimerini.com 4dcgi w articles politics 1 15 05 2006 69703 Ekathimerini , 2006 ref In the 1941 massacre, Mesovouno was part of a series of mass executions by the Nazis that took place from 17 to 28 of October, the rest being the executions of the inhabitants of the villages Kalokastro and Kerdylia in Serres Prefecture Serres , of Kleisto, Kidonia and Ambelofyto in Kilkis . ref http www.provincia.torino.it culturamateriale doc dwd pdf l cult l cult.pdf Cultura Materiale, pg 38 ref ref http www.coe.int t e cultural co operation education remembrance 4.Reference 20documents.asp Council of Europe ref There are annual wake ceremony wakes in the village in memory of the victims, in which members of the Greek Parliament and the President of Greece officially participate. ref http www.mathra.gr default 1586.aspx ref References reflist Greece during World War II coord missing Greece Category Nazi war crimes Category 1941 in Greece Category Conflicts in 1941 Category Mass murder in 1944 Category Mass murder in 1941 Category Conflicts in 1944 Category Massacres in Greece ... more details
Infobox civilian attack title Ljubeni massacres image caption location Ljubeni near Pe , Kosovo target Kosovo Albanians date 25 May 1998 and 1 April 1999 time timezone Central European Time type Mass Killing fatalities injuries perps Yugoslav police officers motive The Ljubeni Massacres were a series of killings committed by Yugoslavian police and paramilitary forces in the village of Ljubeni alb. Lybeniq near Pe , during the Kosovo War 1998 1999. On 25 May 1998, at least eight villagers of Ljubeni , mostly Hamzaj family members, were Extrajudicial killing extrajudicially executed by a group of police officers. ref name amnesty On 1 April 1999, Ljubenic was the site of a mass killing of about 66 men who were suspected of being KLA insurgents. ref name osce First massacre At around 6 45am, on 25 May 1998, there was an incident on the road between De ani and Pe , near the village of Ljubeni , in which a civilian car was shot at by armed men, supposedly Kosovo Liberation Army KLA insurgents. Three men travelling in the car were hit by the bullets, including the driver, a police officer and a reserve police officer, who was apparently off duty. ref name amnesty That afternoon, sometime after 1 p.m., Yugoslav police forces travelling in various vehicles, some of which were armoured, arrived at Ljubeni . The police officers positioned themselves in the outskirts of the village and fired on the Albanians using artillery and other weapon s, before entering the village itself. ref name amnesty Most of the villager s had fled to the nearby forest . Those who could not flee sheltered in the houses as best they could. After a short while, police patrols conducted house to house searches. ref name amnesty The police officers then discovered fourteen people hiding in a large house ... were killed. ref name osce See also Kosovo War War crimes in the Kosovo War List of massacres ... img lybeniq.htm Massacre in Lybeniq photographs Category History of Kosovo Category Massacres ... more details
Infobox civilian attack title Nari o massacres image Colombia narino SIM.svg image size alt caption Nari o shown in red location Nari o Department , Colombia target coordinates date February 4 and February 11, 2009 time timezone type Massacre fatalities 27 injuries victim perps Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC perp susperps susperp weapons numparts numpart dfens Indigenous Aw kwaiker Aw people dfen footage Campaignbox Colombian conflict state collapsed The Nari o massacres lang es Masacres en Nari o were two massacre s of indigenous people indigenous Aw kwaiker Aw people in the Nari o Department of Colombia . They were perpetrated by members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC in February 2009. A total of 27 Aw s were massacred, including women and young children. ref name indian First massacre The first massacre occurred on February 4, 2009 when a FARC guerrilla group entered the village Tortugal. FARC accused the Aw s of collaborating with the Armed Forces of Colombia . ref name colombiano These accusations led to the torture ref name semana1 cite web url http www.semana.com noticias conflicto armado acnur human rights watch rechazan masacre indigenas narino 120616.aspx title Acnur y Human Rights Watch rechazan masacre de ind genas en Nari o date February 10, 2009 publisher Revista Semana accessdate June 21, 2010 language Spanish trans title ref and killing of seventeen Aw s, eight of whom were killed with knives, according to a witness who managed to escape. ref name colombiano cite web url http www.elcolombiano.com BancoConocimiento S sigue sin esclarecerse matanza de indigenas sigue sin esclarecerse matanza de indigenas.asp?CodSeccion 9 title Sigue sin esclarecerse matanza de ind genas date February 10, 2009 publisher El Colombiano accessdate ... trans title ref See also Colombian armed conflict 1964 present List of massacres in Colombia References Reflist 2 coord missing Colombia Category Conflicts in 2009 Category Massacres in Colombia Category ... more details
Infobox Military Conflict conflict Mowry Massacres partof Apache Wars , American Civil War image File Mowry Massacres 1.jpg 300px caption date 1863 1865 place Mowry, Arizona Mowry , Arizona coordinates result combatant1 flag United States combatant2 Apache commander1 commander2 strength1 strength2 casualties1 casualties2 campaignbox Campaignbox Apache Wars Campaignbox Engagements in Confederate Arizona The Mowry Massacres , also known as the Mowry Murders , were a series of Apache attacks in and around the mining town of Mowry, Arizona Mowry , Confederate Arizona Arizona between 1863 and 1865. At least sixteen United States American settlers were killed during the period. ref name Browne195 202 Browne, pg. 195 202. ref Massacres The former United States Army lieutenant , Sylvester Mowry , purchased the Patagonia mine in 1860 from a party of Mexico Mexicans . Soon after, Mowry began operating the mine and attracted miners to the area for work. The Chiricahua and other Apache bands were also attracted though, and they considered the Santa Rita Mountains to be sacred ground and they defended it accordingly by raiding and ambushing settlers. As the American Civil War began, United States Army troops were withdrawn from the frontier of Arizona to fight the Confederate States of America Confederate s in the Southern United States South . This left the settlers unprotected and vulnerable to attack, even after Union Army Union troops from California arrived. ref name Browne195 202 File Mowry, Arizona.jpg 200px left thumb Mowry, Arizona in 1864 by John Browne. Writer and explorer John Ross Browne visited the area in early 1864 and he described the situation in his book Adventures in the Apache Country . According to Browne, early in the morning on December 29, of 1863, two young men named J.B. Mills and Edwin Stevens , were traveling on the trail to the Mowry Mine, both were employees of Sylvester Mowry. The pair were about four miles away from the settlement when they were attacked ... more details
The Rintfleisch or Rindfleisch movement was a series of massacres, in later terminology a pogrom , against Jew s in the year 1298. ref Miri Rubin Gentile Tales The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews 2004 p48 This is nowhere more evident than in the events which led to the months long regional wave of violence which has come to be known as the Rintfleisch movement Rintfleischbewegung ref It was set during the civil strife between King Adolf of Nassau Weilburg Adolf of Nassau and his rival Albert I of Germany Albert of Austria , when imperial authority, traditionally concerned with the protection of the Jews, had temporarily collapsed. The Jews of the Franconia n town of R ttingen were accused of having obtained and host desecration desecrated a consecrated host . One Lord Rindtfleisch , whom the sources refer to either as an impoverished knight or a butcher the term wikt Rindfleisch Rindfleisch means beef in modern German language German spelling , believed to have received a mandate from heaven to avenge the sacrilege and exterminate the Jews. The Dominican Rudolph refers to him in Latin as a wikt carnifex carnifex , slaughterer, ref Les annales et la chronique des Dominicains de Colmar p178 Charles G rard, Joseph Liblin 1854 Veniens in Franckoniam carnifex Rindtfleisch , id est caro bovis , nomine, qui Judeos cepit et interfecit et eorum res diripuit violenter, nec erat impedire. Ante Assumptionem beate Virginis venit in Argentina Albertus rex ... ref but it is not clear if Rudolph meant his original profession, or his behaviour as a butcher of the Jews. ref Christ among the medieval Dominicans Kent Emery, Joseph Peter Wawrykow 1998 Rintfleisch, the popular leader of the massacres, is designated by Rudolph as the butcher camifex . It is not clear whether Rintfleisch was a real name, an occupational tag, or a punning name based on his reputation. ref He gathered a mob around him and burned at the stake burned the Jews of R ttingen on April 20. After this, he and his ... more details
Infobox civilian attack title Fo a massacres image Fo a exhumations.jpg caption Chart showing exhumations carried out between 1996 and 2000 in the Fo a municipality, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Photograph provided courtesy of the ICTY location Fo a , Bosnia and Herzegovina target Bosniaks date April 7, 1992 to January 1994 time timezone Central European Time type Mass killing fatalities injuries perps Serb forces motive The Fo a massacres , also known as the Fo a genocide , were a series of killings committed by Serb military , police and paramilitary forces on Bosniaks Bosniak civilian s in the Fo a region of Bosnia and Herzegovina including the towns of Gacko and Kalinovik from April 7, 1992 to January 1994. In a 1997 judgement against Novislav aji , the Bavaria n Appeals Chamber ruled that the killings in which he was involved in June 1992 were acts of genocide . ref cite web title Prosecutor v. Radislav Krstic Judgment url http www.icty.org x cases krstic tjug en krs tj010802e.pdf publisher International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia date 2 August 2001 quote The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, in the Nikola Jorgic case, upheld the Judgement of the D sseldorf Supreme Court, interpreting the intent to destroy the group in part as including the intention to destroy a group within a limited geographical area. In a Judgement against Novislav Djajic on 23 May 1997, the Bavarian Appeals Chamber similarly found that acts of genocide were committed in June 1992 though confined within the administrative district of Foca. ref In numerous verdict s, the International ... 2012 04 05 ref Numerous Serb officers, soldiers and other participants in the Fo a massacres were ... e newspaper Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina date 18 July 2007 ref See also Bosnian Genocide List of massacres ... Yugoslav wars coord missing Bosnia and Herzegovina DEFAULTSORT Foca massacres Category Bosnian Genocide ... in 1994 Category Ethnic cleansing Category Massacres in Bosnia and Herzegovina Category Serbian war ... more details
The Markale massacres were two bombardments carried out by the Army of Republika Srpska ref name ICTY Stanislav Gali judgement cite web url http www.icty.org x cases galic acjug en gal acjud061130.pdf title ICTY Stanislav Gali judgement ref ref name ICTY Dragomir Milo evi judgement cite web url http www.icty.org x cases dragomir milosevic acjug en 091112.pdf title ICTY Dragomir Milo evi judgement ref targeting civilian s during the Siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian War . They occurred at the Markale marketplace located in the historic core of Sarajevo , the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The first happened on February 5, 1994 68 people were killed and 144 more were wounded. The second occurred on August 28, 1995 when five Mortar weapon mortar shells killed 37 people and wounded another 90. This latter attack was the stated reason for Operation Deliberate Force NATO air strikes against the Bosnian Serb forces that would eventually lead to the Dayton Agreement Dayton Peace Accords and the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. First massacre Infobox civilian attack title 1st Markale Market Shelling image caption location Sarajevo , Bosnia and Herzegovina target Open air market date February 5, 1994 time Between 12 10pm 12 15pm timezone Central European Time type Mortar attack fatalities 68 injuries 144 perps Army of Republika Srpska ref name ICTY Stanislav Gali judgement cite web url http www.icty.org x cases galic acjug en gal acjud061130.pdf title ICTY Stanislav Gali judgement ref ref name ICTY Dragomir Milo evi judgement cite web url http www.icty.org x cases dragomir milosevic acjug en 091112.pdf title ICTY Dragomir Milo evi judgement ref motive The first ... Bosnian War Yugoslav wars coord missing Bosnia and Herzegovina DEFAULTSORT Markale Massacres Category ... in former Yugoslavia Category Massacres in Bosnia and Herzegovina Category Bosnian War Category ... na Markalama da Markale massakren de Markale Massaker fr Massacres de Markale hr Masakri u Sarajevu ... more details
Infobox civilian attack title Vi egrad massacres br Vi egrad genocide image Visegrad bridge.JPG caption The Bridge on the Drina , Mehmed Pa a Sokolovi Bridge , Vi egrad, a scene of slaughter of Bosniak civilians. location Vi egrad , Bosnia and Herzegovina target Bosniaks date 1992 time timezone type fatalities 3,000 perps Republika Srpska Army , Vi egrad Brigade dfens The Vi egrad massacres also known as the Visegrad Genocide were acts of mass murder committed against the Bosniaks Bosniak civilian population of the town and municipality of Vi egrad during the ethnic cleansing of eastern Bosnia by Serb police and military forces during the spring and summer of 1992, at the start of the Bosnian War . According to documents of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ICTY , based on the victims reports, some 3,000 Bosniaks were murdered during the violence in Vi egrad and its surrounding, including some 600 women and 119 children. ref cite web url http www.isn.ethz.ch news sw details.cfm?ID 12736 title Bosnia s ideal fugitive hideout author Damir Kaletovic publisher International Relations and Security Network ref ref cite news url http uk.reuters.com article idUKL261004720070526 work Reuters title Hope for Bosnia town whose bridge will shine again date May 26, 2007 ref According to the ICTY, Vi egrad was subjected to one of the most comprehensive and ruthless campaigns of ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian conflict . ref http www.iwpr.net ?p tri&s f&o 348843&apc state henh Institute For War & Peace Reporting ref According to the Research and Documentation Center ... committed by the Bosnian Serbs in the Vi egrad massacres and the effectiveness with which the town ..., February 7, 2008 Extensions of Remarks E138 ref Massacres Except for an apparently small number who ... Thursday, July 10, 2008 ref See also List of massacres in Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian genocide Serbian ... murder in 1992 Category Bosnian Genocide Category Massacres in Bosnia and Herzegovina Category War ... more details
Infobox Holocaust Event Event Name Jelgava massacres Image Name Image Caption AKA Location Jelgava , Latvia and vicinity Date Second part of July or early August, 1941 Incident type Mass shootings Perpetrators Rudolf Batz , Alfred Becu , M rti Vagul ns Participants Wilhelm Adelt Organizations Einsatzgruppen , Latvian Auxiliary Police , Vagul ns commando Camp Ghetto Victims Separate estimates of 1,500, 1,550, and 2,000 victims have been made. Survivors 21 survivors were transported to Il kste in the fall of 1941 Memorials In the Jewish cemetery and in the forest where the killing occurred. Notes The Jelgava massacres were the killing of the Jewish population of the Jews of the city of Jelgava , Latvia that occurred in the second half of July or in early August 1941. The murders were carried out by German police units under the command of Alfred Becu , with a significant contribution by Latvian auxiliary police organized by M rti Vagul ns . Background Jelgava is a town in Latvia, about 50 kilometers south of Riga . Jelgava was once the capital of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia Duchy of Kurland ref name Kaufmann 111 Kaufmann, The Destruction of the Jews of Latvia , at page 111 ref until that semi independent state was taken over by the Russian empire in 1795. It is the principal city in the Latvian region of Zemgale , one of the four major regions of the country. The German name for Jelgava is Mitau. ref name Ezer 128 Ezergailis, The Holocaust in Latvia , at page 128 ref Jews began settling in Jelgava in the early 16th century, which was the start of the Jewish presence ... 2 in the Bi ernieki forest massacres Bi ernieki forest . ref name Ezer 228 Ezergailis, The Holocaust ... Virtually the entire Jewish community of Jelgava was killed during the course of the massacres ... Jelgava Massacres Category Jelgava Category 1941 in Latvia Category Einsatzgruppen Category Holocaust antisemitic attacks and incidents Category Jewish Latvian history Category Massacres in Latvia ... more details
Infobox holocaust event Event Name Liep ja massacres Image Name LiepajaLatvia1941.jpg Image Caption Members of the 21st Latvian Police Battalion assemble a group of Jewish women for execution on a beach near Liep ja , December 15, 1941. AKA Libau, de , Shkeede, Skeden Location Liep ja , Latvia and vicinity, including Priekule, Latvia Priekule , Aizpute , and Grobi a Date Incident type Imprisonment, mass shootings, forced labor Perpetrators Viktors Ar js , P teris Gali , Fritz Dietrich Nazi official Fritz Dietrich , Erhard Grauel , Wolfgang K gler , Hans Kawelmacher , Karl Emil Strott Participants Organizations Kriegsmarine , Einsatzgruppen , Ordnungspolizei , Wehrmacht , Arajs Kommando , Latvian Auxiliary Police Camp Ghetto Victims About 5,000 Jews. Lesser numbers of Gypsies, communists ... The Liep ja massacres were a series of mass executions, many in public or semi public, in and near ... post war trial that he had requested to be relieved from command because of the stress of the massacres ... 8 10 massacres, Grauel went on from Liep ja to the nearby town of Ventspils , where he organized ... Lieutenant Wolfgang K gler on July 10 or 11. ref name Ezer 291 Under K gler s supervision, massacres ... SS or SD officer then shot again any one not immediately killed. ref name Schulz Massacres of the Gypsies ... in Latvian The largest of the Liep ja massacres took place on three days from Monday, December 15 to Wednesday ... or August massacres to take photographs. He found German soldiers standing around the execution site ... into the pit. File Liepaja December 1941 massacres 01.jpeg Women forced to disrobe and then pose. Scholarly ... SD and Ordnungspolizei participants in the Liep ja massacres. The primary source ... Tabular summary class wikitable collapsible sortable state collapsed 1941 1942 massacres Liep ja ... summer 42 de shooting Notes reflist 2 See also List of massacres in Latvia References Wikisourcepar ... antisemitic attacks and incidents Category Jewish Latvian history Category Massacres in Latvia Category ... more details
Notability date July 2011 Merge to Hamidianmassacres date July 2011 File 1895erzurum victims.jpg thumb Aftermath of the massacres at Erzurum Armenian Genocide The List of massacres in Turkey massacres of Erzurum of 30 October 1895 were a part of the Hamidianmassacres of the Armenians in the Erzurum city of Erzurum , and among the earliest acts of the Armenian Genocide . ref Erzerum, The Nuttall Encyclop dia, http www.fromoldbooks.org Wood NuttallEncyclopaedia e erzerum.html ref ref The Parliamentary Debates Page 39 by Great Britain Parliament, Great Britain date? ref The attack was begun by some Ottoman soldiers, and joined by the local Muslim population. The shops and houses of the Armenians were also pillaged. ref MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS. Washington Post 1877 1954 Washington, D.C. Page needed date July 2011 date? ref Following the massacres, a British consul came into two letters sent by an Ottoman soldier to his brother and to his parents blockquote My brother, if you want news from here, we killed 1,200 Armenians. . . Mother, I am healthy. . . Father, twenty days ago we carried out the war against the Armenian unbelievers. By the grace of God, no misfortune arrived to us. The rumour ... , p.328 ref Notes reflist See Also Hamidianmassacres Armenian Genocide External links http query.nytimes.com ... ref name the graphic The Graphic , 07.12.1895, Massacres of Erzeroum of October 30, 1895 Page needed ... center during the Armenian Genocide in 1915. ref For a detailed account of the massacres and deportations ... in dits recueillis par un t moin oculaire, Paris, Bloud Gay, 1920 fr ref before the massacres took ... 318 ref Massacres had occurred not only in Erzurum but in Erzincan, Kars , and much more other areas ... museum exhibitions homeMemories usCoverage.html erzeroum Erzeroum Massacres, Harpers ... coord missing Turkey Category Massacres in Turkey Category Armenian Genocide Category 1895 in Turkey eo Masakro de Erzurum ru simple Massacres of Erzurum ... more details
Expand list date May 2011 The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Turkey and its predecessors numbers may be approximate class sortable wikitable style font size 90 style width 120px Name style width 65px Date style width 120px Location style width 75px Deaths style width 75px Responsible Party style width 75px Victims class unsortable Notes Hamidianmassacres 1894 1896 Anatolia , Ottoman Empire 80,000 300,000 Ottoman Empire Young Turk government Christian Armenians in the Ottoman Empire Armenians and Assyrian people Assyrians Many women were raped and forced into harems, and many women and children were sold as slaves Massacres in Erzurum 1895 Massacres in Erzurum 1895 Erzurum 60,000 Ottoman soldiers and local Muslims Christian Armenians in the Ottoman Empire Armenians 90 percent of the Armenian population of Erzurum was killed Adana massacre April 13, 1909 Adana Vilayet 15,000 30,000 Ottoman Empire Young Turk government Armenians in the Ottoman Empire Armenian Christians Greek genocide 1914 1923 various 500,000 2,000,000 Ottoman Empire Greeks Greek Christians Reports detail systematic massacres, deportations, individual killings, rapes, burning of entire Greek villages, destruction of Greek Orthodox churches and monasteries, drafts for Labor Brigades , looting, terrorism and other atrocities Armenian Genocide 1915 1923 various 600,000 1,800,000 Young Turk government Armenians in the Ottoman Empire Armenians Denied by the Turkish government is the second most studied case of genocide after the Holocaust Menemen massacre June 16 17, 1919 Menemen 100 1000 A Cretan Brigade Turkish people Turks Zilan massacre July 1930 Van Province 4500 47,000 Turks Kurdish ... 140px File 1895erzurum victims.jpg Aftermath of the massacres at Erzurum Image Adanamass.PNG ... center massacres Category Lists of massacres by country Turkey Category Turkey related lists Massacres Category Massacres in Turkey ... more details
This is the list of Armenian massacres throughout history. class sortable wikitable Name Date Location Organizer s Victims small highest estimation small Hamidianmassacres 1894 1896 flag Ottoman Empire flagicon Ottoman Empire Sultan Abdul Hamid II 300,000 Armenian Tatar massacres of 1905 1907 Armenian Tatar massacres 1905 1907 flagicon Russian Empire Baku , Elisabethpol , Nakhichevan , Shusha Caucasian Muslim Azeri and Armenian civilians 10,000 to 30,000 from both sides Adana massacre April 1909 flagicon Ottoman Empire city of Adana , Adana Vilayet flagicon Ottoman Empire Young Turk government 30,000 Armenian Genocide April 24,1915 1923 flag Ottoman Empire flagicon Ottoman Empire Young Turk government 1,500,000 September Days September 1918 flagicon Azerbaijan Baku , Azerbaijan Democratic Republic br small under Turkish occupation at the time small flagicon Ottoman Empire Army of Islam Ottoman Empire Army of Islam 30,000 Shusha pogrom March 1920 Shusha , Nagorno Karabakh br small disputed under control of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Azerbaijan at the time small flagicon Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Democratic Republic Azeri army 30,000 Sumgait pogrom February 1988 flagicon Soviet Union Sumgayit , Soviet Azerbaijan flagicon Azerbaijan Azerbaijani nationalism Azeri nationalists 26 small official small Kirovabad pogrom November 1988 flagicon Soviet Union Kirovabad , Soviet Azerbaijan flagicon Azerbaijan Azerbaijani nationalism Azeri nationalists 130 Pogrom of Armenians in Baku Baku pogrom January 1990 flagicon Soviet Union Baku , Soviet Azerbaijan flagicon Azerbaijan Azerbaijani nationalism Azeri nationalists 90 Dushanbe riots Dushanbe pogrom February, 1990 flagicon Soviet Union Dushanbe , Tajikistan flagicon Tajikistan Tajik nationalists 22 killed 565 injured Maraga Massacre ... Category Anti Armenian pogroms Category History of Armenia Category Massacres in Turkey Category Massacres in Azerbaijan Category Massacres in Russia Category Massacres in Armenia ... more details
Munsell Bliss , p.428 ref References reflist See also Armenian Genocide Hamidianmassacres coord ...Infobox civilian attack title Massacres in Vilayet of Mamuret laziz image Harputroads.jpg image size 250px caption In 1922 23 Near East Relief evacuated 22,000 children from ophanages in interior Turkey to Syria and Greece. These two pictures show part of the 5,000 children from Harput en route on donkey back and foot location target coordinates date 1915 type fatalities injuries victim Local Armenians perps perp susperps susperp weapons numparts numpart dfens dfen Footage Massacres in the vilayet of Mamuret laziz or Harput District were a large scale of massacres that happened in the province. ref cite book last Balakian first Peter title The Burning Tigris The Armenian Genocide and America s Response publisher HarperCollins year 2004 isbn 0060198400 ref Background In May 1915, prior to the start of the deportations, the authorities in Harput began to mount systematic searches for arms in Armenians Armenian shops and homes in the twin cities and the surrounding villages. ref The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey A Disputed Genocide Page 168 by Lewy, Guenter ref In the words of an eye witness. cquote We were surrounded for a week or ten days by a cordon of burning villages on the plain. Gradually the cordon of fire and fiendish savages drew nearer the city. The attack in the city was planned for Sunday, November 10th, and some of the city rabble began to make demonstrations but the soldiers drove them back. Denmark s minister in Turkey during the First World War. The Turks are vigorously carrying through their cruel intention, to exterminate the Armenian people, Carl Wandel wrote on 3 July 1915. The Bishop of Harput was ordered to leave Aleppo within 48 hours and it has later been learned that this Bishop and all the clergy that accompanied him have been ... killed between ... Massacres in Armenia Category 1915 in Armenia simple Massacres in Harput District ... more details
also Portal Assyrians 1860 Lebanon conflict Hamidianmassacres Assyrian Genocide List of conflicts in the Near ...History of Assyrian people The Massacres of Bader Khan were a series of massacres carried out by the Kurds Kurdish Emirs of Buhtan and Hakkari Badr Khan and Noorallah, against the Assyrian people Assyrians of Hakkari and Tiyari in the 1840s. The massacres resulted in the killing of more than 10,000 Christians and the captivity of thousands of others. It also led to the Ottoman intervention, under Western pressure, to overthrow the last semi independent Kurdish Emirates in 1847. ref Name gaunt32 Harvnb Gaunt Be awoce 2006 p 32 ref Background The Ottoman Empire had been significantly weakened by the nineteenth century, which resulted in the loss of central control over Upper Mesopotamia and Kurdistan . It seemed as if the Empire was on the brink of collapse when Muhammad Ali Pasha Muhammad Ali revolted in Egypt and took control of Syria . It was then that Kurdish Emirs found an opportunity to assert their independence. Among them was Ibrahim Pasha, a Kurdish Emir whose dominion included a region extending from Diyarbakir to Aleppo , and who fought alongside Muhammad Ali against the Ottomans and their allies from the Arab Shammar tribe in Jazira. ref Name gaunt30 Harvnb Gaunt Be awoce 2006 p 30 ref Despite the failure of Muhammad Pasha in his Syrian campaign, the events showed the vulnerability of the Ottomans and encouraged Kurdish Agha Ottoman Empire agha s to try and increase ... building containing 200 rooms at least. ref Name Joseph79 Massacres In early 1843 Noorallah sent for a meeting .... This led the European countries to pressure the Porte to intervene and stop the massacres. ref ... Joseph85 Harvnb Joseph 2008 p 85 ref More than 10,000 Assyrians perished during the massacres. The Kurdish ... books?id 4mug9LrpLKcC title Massacres, resistance, protectors Muslim Christian relations in Eastern ... display inline,title name massacres location Category History of the Assyrians Category Massacres ... more details
de Courtois 2004 p 95 ref The Hamidianmassacres came when some 4,000 Armenians in Bitlis Vilayet ...History of Assyrian people Massacres of Diyarbakir were massacres took place in Diyarbekir Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire between the years of 1894 1896. The events came as a part of the Hamidianmassacres which targeted the region s Christian population Armenians and Assyrian people Assyrians . The massacres initially targeted the Armenians instigated by Ottoman politicians and clerics under the pretext of their desire to dismantle the state, but they soon changed to a general anti Christians pogroms .... ref name Courtois93 Harvnb de Courtois 2004 p 93 ref These events were the first signs of the massacres ... de Courtois 2004 p 101 ref As news of clashes and massacres spread throughout the empire terror moved ... against all Christians. ref name Courtois100 The massacres began in the city of Diyarbakir itself ..., who participated in the massacres of Armenians in Sassun and Mu Mush , was present in the city ... name Courtois105 Diyarbakir massacres ended after three days, likely at order from the governor. ref ... only turned to Islam during the massacres. Many of them returned to Christianity after the end ... S melin Gensburger 2010 p 212 ref Massacres in Eastern Diyarbakir Massacres in the country side ... to a total of 4,000 victims. ref Name Courtois113 Harvnb de Courtois 2004 p 113 ref Massacres in Tur Abdin Mardin , the largest city of the Mardin Sanjaq was spared of the massacres inflicted on other ... during the massacres, however, villages around Midyat were not spared from destruction and murder. ref ... declined sharply after the massacres. In an estimate prior to the First World War, Christians ..., the massacres caused the patriarch to lose his mind and he started drinking after he returned to Mardin ... Massacres of Bader Khan Adana massacre Assyrian Genocide Notes Reflist References Citation last ... Turkey Category History of the Assyrians Category Massacres in Turkey Diyarbakir Category 1890s conflicts ... more details
Expand list date May 2011 class sortable wikitable style font size 90 style width 120px Name style width 65px Date style width 120px Location style width 75px Deaths class unsortable Notes 228 Incident February 28, 1947 10,000 30,000 or more massacres Category Lists of massacres by country Taiwan Category Taiwan related lists Massacres Category Massacres in Taiwan ... more details
references date January 2012 Expand list date May 2011 class sortable wikitable style font size 90 style width 120px Name style width 65px Date style width 120px Location style width 75px Deaths class unsortable Notes Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda massacre August 14, 1974 Maratha, Cyprus Maratha , Santalaris and Aloda 126 massacres Category Lists of massacres by country Cyprus Category Cyprus related lists Massacres Category Massacres in Cyprus ... more details
Expand list date May 2011 The following is a list of massacre s that have occurred in Uzbekistan numbers may be approximate class sortable wikitable style font size 90 style width 120px Name style width 65px Date style width 120px Location style width 75px Deaths class unsortable Notes Andijan massacre May 13, 2005 Andijan 180 5,000 massacres Category Lists of massacres by country Uzbekistan Category Uzbekistan related lists Massacres Category Massacres in Uzbekistan ... more details
Expand list date May 2011 The following is a list of massacre s that have occurred in Venezuela numbers may be approximate class sortable wikitable style font size 90 style width 120px Name style width 65px Date style width 120px Location style width 75px Deaths class unsortable Notes Yumare Massacre May 8, 1986 Yaracuy state, Venezuela 9 massacres Category Lists of massacres by country Venezuela Category Venezuela related lists Massacres Category Massacres in Venezuela ... more details
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