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Assyrian refugees killed on the way to Urmia

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Assyrian refugees killed on the way to Urmia

Place
Urmia · today Iran
Date
1910s
GenocideWorld War

Photograph of bodies lying on the ground in a street while mounted men and onlookers stand by a wall. Werda's caption says Assyrians fleeing to the American and French missions in Urmia after the first Russian retreat were intercepted and hundreds killed. Courtesy, Near East Relief.

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Source

Werda, The Flickering Light of Asia, or the Assyrian Nation and Church (1924), via Internet Archive

Werda, Joel E. · Public domain in the United States (published before 1931)

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