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Circassia
GenocideEthnic Cleansing
&Heinous Crimes
Walid HakouzToronto – Canada
2011
Part 5
Heinous Crimes
During the Russian conquest of the Caucasus, Circassian People were exterminated and deported from their homeland to the Ottoman Empire.
Heinous Crimes
Heinous Crimes
90 % of the Circassian population in Circassia were killed, died of artificially imposed hardship, or sent into exile on a mass scale .
Deportation
Reports
Genocide
Ethnic Cleansing&
Heinous Crimes
Grand Duke Michael
“We wouldn’t leave our duties thinking that Circassians are not surrendering. To wipeout the half, the otherhalf needed to be destroyed”.
“We should send the Circassians by force to theplaces we want. Our maingoal is to settle Russians onthe skirts of the CaucasianMountains. But we shouldn’t let the Circassians know about this”.
Count D. A. Milyutin
Earl Yevdokimov
“Now we have to clean the coastal strip as part of our
plan for the conquest of
Circassia”
October 1863
St. Petersburg Newspaper
“There is no more Circassia. Our soldiers will clean out the remainders in the mountains very soon, and the war will be
over in a short time.”April 1864
Earl Yevdokimov
“Now we have to clean the coastal strip as part of our
plan for the conquest of
Circassia”
May 1864
Massacres
Slaughtering
Circassia
Heinous Crimes
Heinous Crimes
The Murderer General Zass, fixed Circassian heads on top
of lances, near his encampment, on top of a
specially prepared small hill.
The Murderer,General Zass, was paying Cossacks for walking in the battlefields and cutting the heads of Circassians.
General Zass
“I boil them, clean them, and send themto my professor friends in Berlin forthe study of anatomy”
General Zass
Deportation
Testimonies
Solidarity
with
Circassia
Historian: Y.D. Felisin
“This was a real and brutal war. Hundreds of Circassian villages
were set on fire. We let our horses run over their crops and gardens to destroy them, in the
end it turned into a ruin.”
“This and followingscenes were such horror scenes that none of the reporterswere courageous enough to report them.”
Writer: Leo Tolstoy
“The things we did in Circassia were very similar to thenegative things thatSpaniards did duringthe war in American lands.”
General N. N. Rayevski
Opposition: Jan Karol
“The Russian conquest of Caucasia is a terrible example of our barbarian times. It took 101 years of military terror and massacre to break the resistance of the Caucasian Mountaineers”
Reporter: I. Dzarov
“Half of those who left to go to Ottoman Empire died before they reached there. Such a state of wretchedness is rare in the history of the humankind.”
Verdict
Wiping
CircassiaFrom the map
Grand Duke Michael
“In one month, you either go to the landthat will be shown toyou beyond Kuban, or you go to the landof Ottoman Empire”
May 21st 1864
Grand Duke Michael
“The villagers andmountaineers who arenot leaving for the coastal region in onemonth will be treatedas prisoners of war.”
May 21st 1864
Deportation
Heinous Crimes
90 % of the Circassian population were killed, relocated,
or sent into exile.
1,000,000People Vanished
