Description
The mass killing of Ottoman Armenians is nowadays well known, both within and outdoor scholarly circles, as an act of genocide. What is less widely known, then again, is that it took place within a broader context of Ottoman violence against minority groups all through and after the First World War. Among those populations decimated were the indigenous Christian Assyrians (sometimes called Syriacs or Chaldeans) who lived within the borderlands of present-day Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. This volume is the primary scholarly edited collection focused at the Assyrian genocide, or “Sayfo” (literally, “sword” in Aramaic), presenting historical, psychological, anthropological, and political perspectives that shed much-needed light on a neglected historical atrocity.