Cizre was home to an Armenian community of about 3,000 . However , in late June 1915 , during the Armenian Genocide , the Armenian males , along with a few Syriac bishops , were arrested , tortured , and subsequently murdered . Many of the victims had their throat slit and were then thrown into the river Tigris . The women were deported on rafts towards Mosul . A few survived through the means of adoption by local Kurds ; however , most were raped and/or drowned . The remaining Armenian population , located in the rural parts of Cizre , was massacred on 8 August 1915 . Few managed to survive
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Cizre