order to perpetrate the killings. He murdered the Kaimakams in order to scare all other opposed Muslim men and women; he displayed the corpses of the Kaimakams in public." On July 16, 1915, the Consul at Mosul, Walter Holstein, alleged in a report to the German Embassy that Reşit Bey had ordered the recent assassination of the Kaimakam of Midyat, for having, "refused to let the Christians in his district be massacred." According to Taner Akçam, Reşit Bey ordered the assassination of many other Muslims, including fellow Ottoman officials and many civilians, for opposing the Genocides, including Hüseyin Nesimi, the Kaimakam of Lice, Ferit, the Assistant-Vali of Basra, Bedri Nuri, the Mutasarrif of Müntefak, Sabit, the Kaimakam of Beşiri, and the journalist Īsmail Mestan. All jewellery and other possessions that Reşit Bey "requisitioned" from massacred Christians were, in theory, to be forwarded to the central government's treasury. Talat Pasha's concern for these valuables resulted in an investigation into Reşit for embezzlement, which found that he had amassed a personal fortune from the killings. For this reason, in March 1916, Talat Pasha had Reşit removed from his post. Süleyman Nazif later commented, "Talat Pasha dismissed Reşit as a thief, while he adored him as murderer". On 5 November 1918, a little less than a week after the Ottoman Empire surrendered to the Allies in the Armistice of Mudros, Reşit was arrested. His role in both the Armenian and Assyrian Genocides was exposed in the Constantinople press, though he continued to deny having ever committed a crime. He escaped from imprisonment in January 1919, but when government authorities cornered him he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. According to Hans-Lukas Kieser, despite being one of the worst Genocide perpetrators Reşit "is perceived as a patriot and martyr in official Turkish-nationalist diction". In Ankara, a boulevard is named in his honour. Aziz Feyzi Pirinççizâde After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, Aziz Feyzi Pirinççizâde transferred his support from Sultan Mehmed VI to the Turkish Republican Government based in Ankara Vilayet. On 15 January 1919, Feyzi was arrested and charged with involvement in the Armenian Genocide. The British Government deported him to the Crown Colony of Malta in May 1919, where Feyzi was held for two years awaiting prosecution for war crimes as part of Group A, which was reserved for Turks and Kurds who were directly involved in the