The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915–1918 is the is the history of an underground network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats in Ottoman Syria who helped save the lives of thousands during the Armenian Genocide. Khatchig Mouradian challenges depictions of Armenians as passive victims of violence and subjects of humanitarianism, demonstrating the key role they played in organizing a humanitarian resistance against the destruction of their people. Piecing together hundreds of accounts, official documents, and missionary records, Mouradian presents a social history of genocide and resistance in wartime Aleppo and a network of transit and concentration camps stretching from Bab to Ras ul-Ain and Der Zor. He ultimately argues that, despite the violent and systematic mechanisms of control and destruction in the cities, concentration camps, and massacre sites in this region, the genocide of the Armenians did not progress unhindered—unarmed resistance proved an important factor in saving countless lives.
In this invaluable book, Khatchig Mouradian explores Talaat’s exterminatory universe in Northern Syria during the Armenian genocide. He reveals the victims’ agonizing yet effective resilience and their faith in Armenian futures beyond a regime’s perversion.
—Hans-Lukas Kieser, author of Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide
Khatchig Mouradian has written a pathbreaking book on the Armenian genocide. Using a wealth of untapped sources in multiple languages, he shows how a humanitarian resistance network emerged in Ottoman Syria that saved the lives of many Armenians. The Resistance Network is essential reading not only for the new insights it offers on the Armenian genocide but also for the compelling analysis of humanitarianism and resistance in times of great atrocities.
—Eric D. Weitz, author of A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States
This exciting study of Armenian resistance radiating from an Aleppo “life raft” takes us as close as we are ever likely to get to the Armenian genocide itself—and to those who labored to thwart it. We hear their voices, we see their torments, and we trace their stratagems—such as “human newspapers” written on the backs of children, then covered with dirt, enabling communication between far-flung communities. Deeply researched, elegantly written, The Resistance Network cannot fail to stimulate discussion and is highly recommended for scholars, book clubs, and classrooms alike.
—Margaret Lavinia Anderson, professor of history emerita, University of California Berkeley
The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria (1915-1918) ni historia ya mtandao wa chini ya ardhi wa misaada ya kibinadamu, wamishonari, na wanadiplomasia katika Syria ya Ottoman ambao walisaidia kuokoa maisha ya maelfu wakati wa mauaji ya kimbari ya Armenia. Khatchig Mouradian anashindana na picha za Waarmenia kama waathirika wa unyanyasaji na madai ya kibinadamu, akionyesha jukumu muhimu walicheza katika kuandaa upinzani wa kibinadamu dhidi ya uharibifu wa watu wao. Kwa kuchanganya mamia ya masimulizi, nyaraka rasmi, na rekodi za wamishonari, Mouradian anatoa historia ya kijamii ya mauaji ya kimbari na upinzani katika Aleppo wakati wa vita na mtandao wa kambi za usafiri na kambi za mateso zinazoanzia Bab hadi Ras al-Ain na Der Zor. "Mwishowe, anasema kwamba, licha ya utaratibu wa vurugu na utaratibu wa udhibiti na uharibifu katika miji, kambi za mateso, na maeneo ya mauaji katika mkoa huu, mauaji ya kimbari ya Waarmenia hayakuendelea bila kizuizi - upinzani usio na silaha ulithibitika kuwa sababu muhimu katika kuokoa maisha mengi. """ Katika kitabu hiki cha thamani, Khatchig Mouradian anachunguza ulimwengu wa Talaat wa uharibifu kaskazini mwa Syria wakati wa mauaji ya kimbari ya Waarmenia. Yeye hufunua uvumilivu wa mateso ya waathirika lakini ufanisi na imani yao katika siku zijazo za Kiarmenia zaidi ya upotovu wa utawala. Hans-Lukas Kieser, mwandishi wa Talaat Pasha: Baba wa Uturuki ya Kisasa, Mhandisi wa Mauaji ya Kimbari Khatchig Mouradian ameandika kitabu cha kuanzisha juu ya mauaji ya kimbari ya Waarmenia. Kwa kutumia utajiri wa vyanzo visivyotumiwa katika lugha nyingi, anaonyesha jinsi mtandao wa upinzani wa kibinadamu ulivyoibuka katika Syria ya Ottoman ambayo iliokoa maisha ya Waarmenia wengi. The Resistance Network ni usomaji muhimu sio tu kwa ufahamu mpya unaotoa juu ya mauaji ya kimbari ya Waarmenia, lakini pia kwa uchambuzi wa kulazimisha wa kibinadamu na upinzani katika nyakati za ukatili mkubwa. "Eric Weitz, mwandishi wa ""A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States"" anasema: ""Utafiti huu wa kuvutia wa upinzani wa Waarmenia unaotokana na ""safari ya maisha"" ya Aleppo unatuchukua karibu sana na mauaji ya kimbari ya Waarmenia yenyewe na wale waliofanya kazi ya kuizuia." Tunasikia sauti zao, tunaona mateso yao, na tunafuatilia mbinu zao - kama vile "magazeti ya kibinadamu" yaliyoandikwa kwenye migongo ya watoto, kisha kufunikwa kwa uchafu, kuwezesha mawasiliano kati ya jamii zilizo mbali. Kitabu hicho, kilichoandikwa kwa ustadi na kina utafiti, kinaweza kuchochea majadiliano na kinapendekezwa sana kwa wasomi, vilabu vya kusoma, na madarasa. <unk>Margaret Lavinia Anderson, profesa wa historia emerita, Chuo Kikuu cha California Berkeley