Armed resistance at Sasun
The mountain villages of Sasun, with a tradition of armed resistance going back to the 1894 Hamidian massacres, held out for four months against Ottoman regular and irregular forces in 1915. By mid-August the resistance was crushed; survivors were either killed in place or driven into Russian lines.
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The mountain villages of Sasun, with a tradition of armed resistance going back to the 1894 Hamidian massacres, held out for four months against Ottoman regular and irregular forces in 1915. By mid-August the resistance was crushed; survivors were either killed in place or driven into Russian lines. The atlas classifies this as a battle event in 1915 with major severity. It is not flagged as an atrocity record in the database.
The event is linked to Ottoman Empire, Bitlis vilayet, Sasun. Seeded ranges record casualties at 8,000 to 15,000 and displacement at not specified to not specified.
The seeded citation trail currently points to Raymond Kévorkian, Richard G. Hovannisian (ed.).
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