Garabed tells us that he was exiled with his parents, a brother and a sister to Deir-el-Zor. After having stayed there some days the people were driven forward to Shaddadie along the river Khabour. The road was full of corpse, old and new. At midnight the slaughter began, and the most exciting scene followed. Men were killed, women wounded, girls carried off by force, children beaten down by the horses’ hoofs. The blood was running as a red stream. Garabeds’ parents, brother and sister were killed, he hid himself under the dead bodies. After some hours lots of women came undress the cropse for using or selling the clothes. A woman found Garabed and brought him home to her tent. There he stayed as a slave 12 year. Some muleteers found him and brought him to us.

Left our care:  5/5 27. Relatives.