The Sayfo, or Assyrian genocide, have come to be the mass slaughter and deportation of
Assyrian and Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan province
committed with the aid of manner of the use of the use of manner of the use of Ottoman forces
and Kurdish tribes in the course of World War I. The Assyrians lived in mountainous and an
prolonged manner flung areas and were divided into numerous collectively destructive church
homes. Mass killing of Assyrian civilians started out out out in January 1915, with the useful
useful useful resource of the Ottoman military and pro-Ottoman Kurds. Attacks on, massacres of
and deportations of Christian populations continued till 1919, usually managing superb sporadic
armed resistance. Ottoman Assyrians residing in gift-day Iraq and Syria have been no longer
centered. The Sayfo took place concurrently with and function emerge as carefully associated
with the Armenian genocide. Motives covered a perceived loss of loyalty amongst a few
Assyrian businesses to the Ottoman Empire and a desire to appropriate their land. In 1919 the
Assyrians said that form of 250,000 had been killed within the genocide, approximately 1/2 of of
of of of the pre-warfare populace.