Karapetê Haço was born in the village of Bileyder ( now called Binatlı , Batman , in Batman province , Turkey ) in the Ottoman Empire to an Armenian family in 1900 . In 1915 , he witnessed the annihilation of his village during the Armenian Genocide . Xaço , his brother Abraham , and sisters Manuşak and Xezal survived the massacre because a soldier said '' Let 's free them and allow them to go '' as he had lost his parents . He was saved by his knowledge of Kurmanji and his singing talent
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Karapetê Xaço