Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Author's Note; Introduction: A Forgotten Genocide?; Nation, people and churches; On the eve ofthe massacre; The genocide of 1915; Contemporary documentation; Ethnocide and extermination; Oblivion and its causes; An international issue; Renewal and memory; 1. Witnesses to Genocide; A terra incognita?; Reporting the genocide; The range of witnesses; The Paris Peace Conference, 1919; International solidarity; The national and international press: an essential intermediary; Humanitarian aid; 2. The Scenes and Acts ofthe Tragedy
A centuries-old persecutionThe first centuries; Ottoman antecedents to the 1915 massacres; 1915: historic Mesopotamia; Overview ofthe massacres; The invasion of Hakkari by Turco-Kurdish forces; The Syriacs; Extermination and deportation: the children ofthe Desert; 3. Strategy and Methodology of Eradication; Genocide and ethnocide; Lamenting a tragedy; The massacres and the United Nations; 4. After 1915: The Tragedy Continues; 1918: from Salmas and Urmia towards Hamadan and Iraq; Assyrians at arms; TheAssyrian Levies; The Turkey-Iraq frontier (1925); Fleeing Turkey
Conclusion: Returning to the Stage of HistoryThe impact ofthe diaspora; Preserving memory; Iraq: homeland or safe haven?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
History ofthe mass killings of 1915 in which the Ottomans sought to extirpate the Aramaic-speaking Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians ofthe Middle East
Notes
Originally published in French by Les editions du cerf as Qui s'en souviendra in 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-251) and index