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Village of Derhab: This village only had a single Syriac family, whose head was Odom. He was killed together with his family.
Village of Gerdahul: About 10 Syriac families lived in this village in 1915, the other inhabitants were Kurds. The Syriac families fled during one night. When the Kurds noticed that they had gone, they went after them. Then there was a fight between the two parties, but the Kurds could not succeed in the fight and the Syriac families went to live in Tur-'Abdin.
Village of Gerkeshamo: Some 35 Syriac families used to live there, most of whom were from Hbob (Ehwo). The village leader was Aziz Habib from the Mushil Quryo family. When the attackers arrived, people left the village with anything they could carry, and they went to Mor Bobo monastery. From there they climbed the mountain to Hbob.
Village of Grebya: About 10 Syriac families lived in this village and all of whom had fled to the mountains before their attackers came.
Village of Kafro Tahtayto: In this village there lived about 30 Syriac families. Some of them fled to the Mor Malke Monastery, others to the Mor Eliyo Monastery in Hbob and the villagers stayed in these places until the end of the persecutions, when they returned back to their village.
Village of Laylan: About 15 Syriac families lived in this village in 1915. They were attacked by the so-called Kurdish Haskan clan, whose leader was Ahmed Yousif. The murderers took all men, women and children to a place between Sihah and Helwa, and killed them there. There were no survivors.
Village of Mharkan: About 15 Syriac families lived in this village and it had two leaders from the Shamosho Aho family. Both leaders were drafted to serve in the Ottoman army in WWI but they fled to the village of Hbob (Ehwo) where they found refuge in the mountains. After the Kurds and the Turks had massacred the inhabitants of Helwa and Duger, they came to Mharkan and killed anyone that crossed their path. As it was at night time, some people managed to hide in the bushes around the village and in haystacks. After the murderers left, the survivors fled to Tur-'Abdin.
Village of Qowal: This village used to be inhabited by about 20 Syriac families .They were all massacred together.
Village of Sarug: This village belonged to Lahdo Barsaumo from Hbob (Ehwo), and it had some 30 Syriac families living in it and Malke was the priest in the church. The people in this village were not killed because all had fled before the murderers came. They were assisted by about fifty armed Syriac men from Tur-'Abdin, led by Habsuno Arsan and Malke Sune, who took them from the village of Sarug to Hbob in the mountains.
Village of Tell Hassan: About Fifteen Syriac families used to live here and all of them were killed. The village leader, Amar Osman, slaughtered seven widows, offered them as sacrifice and bathed in their blood in order to attain perfection.
Village of Tell Jihan: All the Syriac families there, about 15, fled from this village to Tur='Abdin before the attackers arrived.
Village of Tell Manar: Ten Syriac families used to live here in 1915. They moved to M'are and tragically sought shelter from the massacre with the evil Yousif Khasho. There, they were killed together with the Syriac refugees from M'are.
Village of Tell Ya'koub: There were about 10 Syriac families living in this village and all of them were also killed in M'are.
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