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In 1914, 12.000 Ottomans and 13.000 Kurds lay a siege on a small Syriac Christian village of Ein Wardo. The siege lasted for 3 years until a famous imam instructed the army to leave. Why are there so few records on this siege?

by /u/xaliber in /r/AskHistorians

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