British Consular Dispatches and 19th‑Century Yazidi Persecutions

British consular dispatches of the 19th century provide some of the earliest systematic Western records of Ottoman‑led persecution against the Yazidi community. By analysing reports from officials such as Capt. F. R. Maunsell and Lt.‑Col. Herbert Chermside, scholars have reconstructed the scale of massacres, forced conversions and displacement that shaped Yazidi collective memory.

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