"Sasun, a region of Anatolia formerly under Ottoman rule and today part of eastern Turkey, is frequently recounted in history books as the site where, in 1894, the Turks murdered anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000 Armenian Christians. News reports at the time detailed that gruesome acts, including torture, had occurred at Sasun at the hands of the Ottoman army. The Ottoman Empire denied these allegations. A commission of European delegates sent to investigate the matter concluded that the news reports were highly exaggerated, yet the original stories of atrocities have persisted. This volume provides a close examination of the historical evidence to shed light on what really happened at Sasun. The authors' research indicates that the stories circulated by the media of torture and murder in Sasun don't hold up against the findings of the European investigators though they were motivated by sympathy with Armenian Christians. Evidence instead showed that an Armenian revolt had led to fights with local Kurds and much smaller numbers of deaths, on both sides. The conflict had largely subsided before the arrival of the Ottoman army on the scene."--Publisher's website
Justin McCarthy Orden de los libros (cronológico)
Este autor es un demógrafo y profesor de historia estadounidense cuya experiencia se centra en la historia del Imperio Otomano tardío. Ha atraído considerable atención por sus puntos de vista sobre el Genocidio Armenio, ocurrido durante los últimos años del Imperio Otomano. Mientras que la mayoría de los académicos de genocidio catalogan estas masacres como genocidio, McCarthy las considera parte de una guerra civil, desencadenada por la Primera Guerra Mundial, en la que murieron cantidades comparables de armenios y no armenios.
If I Were King
- 184 páginas
- 7 horas de lectura
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