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Village of Foum: The village of Foum was situated in the Lice kaza and was one of several Syriac Christian agricultural centers in the Lice kaza of the Diyarbekir province. Foum and its neighboring Syriac and Armenian villages in the Silvan and Lice areas were subjected to extreme cruelty, looting, and forced religious conversions perpetrated by local Kurdish tribes acting in coordination with or under the indifference of provincial Ottoman authorities. Before the onset of the massacres in 1915, the village was home to approximately 700 Syriac Orthodox inhabitants. The massacre of the village inhabitants took place before the middle of July 1915. The atrocities were carried out by chettes, which were irregular militia groups enrolled from the local Muslim population, and Kurdish tribesmen who surrounded the village and put the inhabitants to the sword. The male inhabitants were arrested, bound together, and led to nearby ravines and caverns where they were plundered and their throats were cut. The clergy of Foum were specifically targeted and humiliated during the 1915 attacks. The priest of Foum was arrested and subjected to public degradation; he was dragged by his beard through the streets to prison while being mocked and hooted at by crowds of local children. Following the initial slaughter of the adult men, the village was cleared of its Syriac Christian population, and the fate of the remaining women and children involved forced relocation, kidnapping, or death from exposure, as few survivors were recorded from the Syriac villages of the Lice kaza during this period. Ecclesiastical property, including the Church of Mori Quryaqus and the manuscripts held therein, suffered the general fate of Christian sites in the region, which were plundered, destroyed, or converted to other uses by the perpetrators.
Village of Jum: The village of Jum was located within the kaza of Lice, an administrative district situated to the northwest of the city of Diyarbekir. The village was part of a cluster of Syriac and Christian villages in the Lice region that included neighboring sites such as Fum, Chemchem, Tappa, and Naghle. During the Sayfo or Syriac Genocide between 1915 and 1924, Jum was the site of a general massacre. In the spring of 1915, Anisse Bey, the Kaimakam of Lice, recruited and trained a militia among the local Turkish population. Following an official government order to collect all arms from Christian inhabitants, the male population of the town of Lice was cleared, and subsequent operations were directed at the surrounding rural villages. Gangs of irregular çhetes and Kurdish tribesmen surrounded Jum and its neighboring villages, where they arrested the male inhabitants and put them to the sword in nearby caverns and ravines. These attacks were coordinated with the systematic plundering of properties, houses, and businesses belonging to the Syriac and Christian community. The total pre-war Syriac and Christian population for the Lice kaza, which included Jum, was recorded to be approximately 4,100 people. However, the settlement of Jum was notably absent from the population lists presented by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation at the post-war peace conference, suggesting its near-total obliteration. After the male population was disposed of, the remaining survivors, consisting primarily of women and children, were subjected to forced deportation. These deportations resumed with intensity after the conclusion of the Ramadan holiday in mid-July 1915. During these marches, women and children were killed without pity, some beautiful girls were taken as slaves by Kurdish and Turkish officials, and many children were left to die of hunger and fatigue by the roadside. The sources do not provide details on the final relocation or specific fate of any survivors from Jum after the atrocities ceased.
Village of Mallaha: This village was also known as Mlahso. All Syriac inhabitants were massacred in 1915
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