(8 October) Horrible developments these days a century ago in the Middle East.
In the last days of September a century ago, scenes of horrific violence.
The British General Edmund Allenby is leading his cavalry forces out of Palestine, across the Golan Heights, into Syria, “Turkish and German forces murdered several hundred Arab women and children,” according to historian Martin Gilbert, “in an act of cruel defiance for the successful harassment by the forces of the Arab Revolt.”
“On the following day,” reports Gilbert, “September 28th at Dera’a in central Syria, where thousands of Bedouin had joined the Arab forces, wounded Turkish soldiers and prisoners were murdered as a reprisal, arousing violent anti-Arab feeling.”
Indian troops fighting under the British entered the town while the massacres were taking place.
According to historian Gilbert, “Arabs murdered in cold blood every Turk they came across,” was the brief note in the 4th Cavalry Division’s summary of events.”
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