The latest news is that four thousand Assyrians and one hundred Armenians have died of disease alone , at the mission , within the last five months . All villages in the surrounding district with two or three exceptions have been plundered and burnt ; twenty thousand Christians have been slaughtered in Armenia and its environs . In Haftewan , a village of Salmas , 750 corpses without heads have been recovered from the wells and cisterns alone . Why ? Because the commanding officer had put a price on every Christian head ... In Dilman crowds of Christians were thrown into prison and driven to accept Islam . Assyrian historians attribute the limited recognition to the smaller number of Assyrian survivors , whose leader Mar Shimun XIX Benyamin was killed in 1918 . For example , there are one million Armenians living in the United States alone , but even they were unable to persuade Congress to pass a United States resolution on Armenian genocide . In addition , the widespread massacres of all Ottoman Christians in Asia Minor is sometimes referred to by Armenian authors as an " Armenian Genocide "
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Assyrian genocide