Note 26 — Chapter II · A LAND OF DUST AND ASHES (DIARBEKR AND MARDIN)
Reading edition
See pp. 227, 338. Bedr Khan Beg’s massacres of the mountain Christians occurred in 1843, and are described by Layard in his “Nineveh and its Remains.” Under pressure from the British Ambassador, Bedr Khan and his family were eventually banished to Candia—“a totally inadequate punishment.”