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The 1895-96 Hamidian Massacres: Armenia's Pre-Genocide Warning
Before the 1915 Armenian Genocide, there was a brutal dress rehearsal: the Hamidian Massacres of 1895-96. Under Sultan Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman authorities, Kurdish irregulars, and the infamous Hamidiye regiments slaughtered an estimated 100,000 to 300,000 Armenians across the empire. This episode of The Story of Armenia examines the causes, the international outcry, the role of figures like the British ambassador Sir Philip Currie and the missionary William Sachtleben, and why the massacres failed to prevent the later genocide. Lucas and Luna discuss the Sasun resistance of 1894, the Zeytun…
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