Pedro Pascal Meme Circassia and Circassian Genocide
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Who are the Circassians and what is the Circassian Genocide?
Circassians are a native people of the Caucasus. They had been living in the North Caucasus for thousands of years. They are very good cavalry people. They have defended their homeland throughout history. They did not surrender their homeland against the Huns, Mongols, Timurids, and countless many invaders. The Russians, which quickly became a great power from the 16th century, began to occupy Circassia in 1763. They were planning to seize the Circassian lands in a short time. Because they saw the Circassians as a small community fighting on horseback in the mountains, unable to challenge an empire. However, Circassians showed an incredible resistance against the Russians for 101 years. The resistance was so incredible that a Russian general who raided a Circassian village was erased from history by the Circassians in weeks. The population of Eastern Circassia had dropped from 250,000 to 35,000 during the war. In 1827 the Russians were able to capture eastern Circassia. Circassians migrated to the lands of their western cognates just to continue fighting. The children of Circassians were born in the middle of the war and often only saw their fathers when their bodies arrived from the front in the village. This lifestyle exhausted the Circassian people. The herds that used to be abundant now became smaller. The Russians were committing incredible massacres against Circassians. When the Russians raided a Circassian village, they killed thousands of people, burned houses and raped women. 1,200,000 Circassians were killed during the war. In 1864, the last fighters of the Circassian people who sacrificed everything for the sake of independence were also surrounded and killed. Circassians were exiled to the Ottoman Empire by ships. During the exile, 600,000-1,000,000 Circassians died. 91% of the Circassian population was subjected to ethnic cleansing. Today, there are 720,000 Circassians in the Caucasus. There are 3 million Circassians in Turkey, 350,000 in Jordan and Syria, and 7000 in Israel.
Pedro Pascal
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Circassian Genocide
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