The Sayfo (Assyrian Genocide): 250,000-500,000 (jan 1, 1915 – feb 1, 1923)

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The Sayfo (Assyrian Genocide) was carried out by the Ottoman Empire (Committee of Union and Progress party and Ottoman forces) along with some Kurdish tribes and Kurdish Hamidiye regiments against the Assyrian/Syriac Christians (including Assyrians, Syriacs, Chaldeans, and Arameans) between 1914 and 1923 (end of broader Ottoman Christian genocide period), with an estimated death toll between 250,000 (Assyro-Chaldean delegation at 1919 Paris Peace Conference) and 500,000 (Swedish Parliament resolution 2010 and genocide scholars).

The Ottoman Empire and allied forces also engaged in forced deportations and death marches to the Mesopotamian desert, mass executions, rape and sexual slavery, abduction and forced marriage, forced conversion to Islam, enslavement, starvation, torture, village destruction, forced labor, and the destruction of churches and cultural heritage.

It has been labeled as genocide by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS, 2007 resolution stating the Ottoman campaign constituted genocide against Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks), Sweden (Parliament resolution March 11, 2010), Armenia (Parliament resolution 2015), the Netherlands (Parliament resolution 2015), Germany (Bundestag resolution 2016), several U.S. state legislatures including New York and New South Wales and South Australia in Australia, and genocide scholars including David Gaunt and Hannibal Travis.

The Turkish government continues to reject recognition of the Sayfo as genocide.

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