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Midyat kazak
Village of Ahlah: There were four families living in this village in 1915. The Kurds of the village let them live through the events of Sayfo. The families that used to live there, later emigrated to Sweden and the Netherlands.
Village of Anhel: Anhel is situated two hours on foot south of Midyat, and it is one of the major villages in Tur-'Abdin. Not one enemy of Christians has ever attacked it, and no one was ever killed there. It is said to have been protected by Aziz Agha from Midyat, from the Mahmado family, and that he never allowed either the government troops or the Kurdish clans to attack it. Many Syriac families that had escaped the massacres found refuge there, until they were able to return to their villages.
Village of Armun: This village is situated north of Kfargussan and there were about 10 Syriac families living there. One man, Mohammed Latif, a Kurd from Kfargussan of the Hassan Shimdi family, went to the administrator of Hesno d-Kifo, and incited him against the Syriac community living in the village until the administrator took his soldiers with some Kurdish clans and raided the village. He arrested all the Syriac people that lived there and took them away from the village and finally killed them. Only about ten Syriac people succeeded in escaping the massacre.
Village of Barlat: There were 10 Syriac families living in this village in 1915. Some of them were killed by the Kurds, others managed to escape the massacre.
Village of Celik: Ten Syriac families lived in this village. They were killed by the supporters of the Rammo family.
Village of Deir Qube: About ten Syriac families lived in Dair Qube. These families were urged by the Calabi Agha to flee to Hah and because of that, none of them were killed. After the massacres ended, they did not return to their villages because they were originally from Hah.
Village of Gawoyto
Village of Hedil: At the time of the 1915 persecutions, there were about 20 Syriac families living in Hedel. They sought refuge in Beth Zabdai and stayed there till the end of the persecutions. From there they moved to Iraq.
Village of Marwaniye: This village is situated south of Dufne and had about ten Syriac families living there. All of them were killed simultaneously by the leaders of the village of Kfargussan.
Village of Meshti: This village is situated north of Karburan, on the south bank of the Tigris River. About 40 Syriac families used to live there and they all spoke Eastern Syriac. Ali Rammo and the Kurdish clans killed all the inhabitants.
Village of Shahirkan In this village lived about 20 Syriac families, of whom about half were murdered. The rest managed to find refuge in the Hah , Qusten, and Zaz and they stayed there until the massacres ended but they didn’t return to their village.
Village of Zangan: This village lies northeast of Karburan, on the bank of the Tigris River. All the 30 Syriac families in the village were killed by the members of the Rammo family.
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