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 Moving 300 miles south-eastward in disordered retreat with their families, livestock and possessions, the Assyrians finally arrived at Hamadan, decimated from perpetual attacks on all sides from the Turks, Kurds and Persians alike.
Scorched in the burning summer heat and ridden with typhus, dysentery, small pox and cholera, old people and children exhausted with fatigue and fever were left to die by the wayside, marking the path of retreat with the dead and the dying. At length, 20,000 fewer in number, the survivors made contact with the British Troops.
-- (League of Nations, The Settlement of the Assyrians, A Work of Humanity and Appeasement, Geneva: 1935, Information Section, page 9
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