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What is being done to Armenian monuments in Artsakh now is not new and it is not vandalism. Seda Parsamyan traces the demolition policy of the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s and puts the legal question directly: when a state sets out to erase a people's churches, at what point does that become cultural genocide? She works through how the concept has been defined, redefined and quietly narrowed by people who would rather it did not apply. The frame she builds is the one now being reached for over Artsakh.

Mass Destruction of Armenian Cultural Heritage during the Hamidian Massacres (1894-1896)

Parsamyan, Seda A. · 2023 · International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 5–34 (AGMI, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0043

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Rasulain and the Arada Steppe During the Armenian Genocide, July 1915 – April 1916

Kaiser, Hilmar, 2025

International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 5–39 (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0061

Building on Raymond Kévorkian's work on the Syrian and Mesopotamian 'destination areas,' Kaiser reconstructs the deportation zone around Rasulain and the Arada Steppe. Officially the Ottoman government claimed it meant to resettle Armenian deportees in the Zor district; in practice deportees were starved, abandoned in the desert, or massacred. Drawing on official Ottoman documentation alongside rare first-hand evidence from the Chechen community of Rasulain, Kaiser shows that district governor Ali Suad Bey began limited relief and settlement projects which central authorities then undid. Local Chechens opposed Armenian settlement on economic grounds, denounced deportees as alleged revolutionaries, and ultimately took a leading part in the massacres.

Armenian Genocide deportation routes Der Zor Ottoman administration perpetrator networks

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Աքսորյալ զեյթունցիների զինված դիմադրության փորձը Դեր Զորի անապատում (Armed Resistance Attempt of Deported Armenians from Zeitun in the Der Zor Desert)

Tatoyan, Robert A., 2024

Ցեղասպանագիտական հանդես / Journal of Genocide Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 9–48 (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/jgs.0051

Reconstructs an exceptional episode of Armenian self-defense during the second phase of the Genocide: the armed resistance of Zeitun deportees in a caravan driven into the desert after the Der Zor camp was liquidated in summer 1916. Tatoyan works from survivor testimony, above all the unpublished memoir of Tigran Makaryan held in AGMI's holdings, cross-checked against Garegin Hovhannisyan, Nazareth Muradyan and Aram Andonian. He establishes that the resistance broke out in early August 1916 at the Shedadieh camp, triggered by attempted conscription of men into labor battalions, and lasted two or three days before being crushed. Roughly 100–120 Armenian men took part, about a third armed; suppression required 200 mounted gendarmes plus auxiliary bands, and Der Zor governor Salih Zeki directed it personally.

Armenian Genocide Der Zor Zeitun armed resistance concentration camps

Armenian

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Reflection of the Theme of Concentration Camps in the Songs and Music

Gatrjian, Avo, 2024

Ցեղասպանագիտական հանդես / Journal of Genocide Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 9–40 (AGMI Foundation, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/jgs.0055

Examines songs and music produced in multiple languages and periods in and about the Genocide camps along the Euphrates, across folk, rock, metal, rap, jazz, classical and new-age idioms, and traces their transmission into film, graphic series, documentary and theater. The author teaches at Hamazkayin's Armenian Studies Institute in Aleppo.

Armenian Genocide music concentration camps Der Zor cultural memory

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