21 Facts About Circassian genocide

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Circassian genocide referred to the Circassians as "untrustworthy swine" to "show how insignificant they are compared to Russia".

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Circassian genocide then passed the Kuban and burned 210 more villages.

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Circassian genocide ambassadors were sent to England, France and Ottoman lands announcing that they deny this treaty under all conditions.

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Circassian genocide goes on to detail how when setting fire to a village, a Russian soldier named Midvideiv killed a Circassian who tried to stop him from burning down a mosque.

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5.

Circassian genocide was a racist who considered Circassians to be inferior.

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6.

Circassian genocide kept a box under his bed with his collection of severed Circassian body parts.

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7.

Circassian genocide continued to exterminate the Circassian population between 1834 and 1835, particularly in the Abdzakh, Besleney, Shapsug, and Kabardian regions.

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8.

Circassian genocide did not stop at burning women; he cut the pregnant women's bellies with a bayonet.

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9.

Circassian genocide sent severed Circassian heads to his friends in Berlin who were professors and used them to study anatomy.

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10.

Circassian genocide had Circassian heads outside of his tent impaled on lances on a hill.

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11.

In 1837, some Circassian genocide leaders offered the Russians a white peace, arguing that no more blood should be shed.

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12.

Ottoman and British delegations both promised recognition of an independent Circassia, as well as recognition from Paris, if they unified into a coherent state, and in response the Circassian genocide tribes formed a national parliament in Sochi, but Russian General Kolyobakin quickly overran Sochi and destroyed it, while there was no action to stop this by any major power's government.

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13.

In March 1864, a surrounded Circassian genocide army refused to surrender and committed mass suicide.

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The Russian army began celebrating victory, as a military-religious parade was held, and 100 Circassian genocide warriors were publicly mutilated in a public execution in order to establish authority.

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15.

Circassian genocide'snfield has argued that those that died in the ensuing catastrophe were probably more than a million, likely approaching 1.

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Circassian genocide further argues that Western European indignation at the unfolding situation in Circassia arose only after Russia leveraged the Ottomans to gain special rights in the Dardanelles thus threatening their trade interests.

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Circassian genocide girls were sold into Turkish harems by their relatives.

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Many Circassian genocide households petitioned the Russian embassy in Constantinople for their resettlement back in the Caucasus.

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19.

Misha Glenny notes that the settlement of the Circassian genocide deportees played a major role in destabilizing the Ottoman Balkans, especially Bulgaria.

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In recent times, scholars and Circassian activists have proposed that the deportations and mass killings can certainly be considered as a manifestation of the modern-day concept of genocide, though the term had not been in use in the 19th century.

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On 20 May 2011 the parliament of the Republic of Georgia declared in its resolution that the mass annihilation of the Cherkess people during the Russian-Caucasian war and thereafter constituted Circassian genocide as defined in the Hague Convention of 1907 and the UN Convention of 1948.

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