Open AccessThe Indictment Documents օn the Armenian Genocide Written in Aleppo and the Sassoun Document (1919)
Author(s) -
Mihran Minassian,
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Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
ts'eghaspanagitakan handes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1829-3980
DOI - 10.51442/jgs.0023
Subject(s) - indictment , armenian , genocide , population , listing (finance) , turkish , order (exchange) , history , genealogy , political science , geography , law , ancient history , sociology , demography , linguistics , philosophy , finance , economics
The article is divided into two parts. The first part covers the development of indictment documents by patriotic unions or fractions of Aleppo in order to submit them to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, each of which was a summary of the history of the Armenian massacres of a specific region. The overall list of the covered material and the content of each document are also outlined. It is interesting that the documents dedicate large sections for listing the names of the Turkish perpetrators of each region and the material losses suffered by the Armenians. The second part of the article includes the indictment document of Sassoun district, which contains general geographical information and important details about the social life of the Armenians of Sassoun, i.e. meetings of principals and elders, Armenian-Kurdish relations, the situation of the Armenians of Sassoun in 1894-1896 and 1914-1916, and a brief list of the perpetrators of the massacres. The second part of the document covers the village lists and censuses of the six sub-districts of Sassoun - Dalvorig, Pusank, Hatni-Maratug, Gusked, Pernashen-Khut and Khiank, where 203 villages are mentioned with the numbers of their Armenian population and other details.