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Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography compiled by Stefan Blaschke |
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Start: Topical Index: Types: Rape: Genocidal Rape: 20th Century:
Types: Rape: The Sayfo (Syriac: ܣܲܝܦܵܐ, lit. 'sword'), also known as the Seyfo or the Assyrian genocide, was the mass murder and deportation of Assyrian/Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan province by Ottoman forces and some Kurdish tribes during World War I. (...) The Sayfo occurred concurrently with and was closely related to the Armenian genocide, although the Sayfo is considered to have been less systematic. Local actors played a larger role than the Ottoman government, but the latter also ordered attacks on certain Assyrians. Motives for killing included a perceived lack of loyalty among some Assyrian communities to the Ottoman Empire and the desire to appropriate their land. At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, the Assyro-Chaldean delegation said that its losses were 250,000, about half the prewar population. The accuracy of this figure is unknown. They later revised their estimate to 275,000 dead at the Lausanne Conference in 1923. The Sayfo is less studied than the Armenian genocide.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)
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I. Author Index [Info] Arnett, Brittany. Forgotten Bloodshed: The Assyrian Genocide of World War I. Concord Review 25 (2014): 133-146. [Info] Morris, Benny. »Collective Sexual Violence in Turkey, 1894–1924: What we know and how we know it.« Law and History Review (August 18, 2025). [Info] Mutlu-Numansen, Sofia, et al. Heroines of gendercide: The religious sensemaking of rape and abduction in Aramean, Assyrian and Chaldean migrant communities. European Journal of Women's Studies 22 (2015): 428-442. II. Speaker Index - |