Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Author's Note; Introduction: A Forgotten Genocide?; Nation, people and churches; On the eve of the 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 of the Tragedy
A centuries-old persecutionThe first centuries; Ottoman antecedents to the 1915 massacres; 1915: historic Mesopotamia; Overview of the massacres; The invasion of Hakkari by Turco-Kurdish forces; The Syriacs; Extermination and deportation: the children of the 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; The Assyrian Levies; The Turkey-Iraq frontier (1925); Fleeing Turkey
Conclusion: Returning to the Stage of HistoryThe impact of the diaspora; Preserving memory; Iraq: homeland or safe haven?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
History of the mass killings of 1915 in which the Ottomans sought to extirpate the Aramaic-speaking Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians of the 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
