Rawandiz: Difference between revisions

|access-date=2009-09-06}}</ref> The [[Rawandiz massacre]] took place, where the Kurdish Muslim population was massacred by the Russian army and allied Assyrian militants; after Nikolai Baratov's [[Cossacks]] recaptured the town, only 20 percent of the Kurdish population managed to survive.<ref>Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908-1918, Michael A. Reynolds, page 158, 2011. Quote "The Russian's local allies often abetted this line of thinking. One Assyrian officer urged his superiors to drop the Russian rule of concilatings one's enemy peacefully in favor of all-out warfare on Muslims. The British Major E. W. C Noel described the extermination of the town of Rowanduz and the wholesale massacre of its [Muslim] inhabitants by what he dubbed Christian Army of Revenge of Agha Petros as one example of a long record of outrages</ref> In 1922 the town was occupied by the Turks, until they were driven out at the end of the year.<ref>{{cite web