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| Ganja Massacre |
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| Location | Ganja |
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| Date | 1610 (1610) |
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| Target |  Sunni Kurdish tribe of Jekirlu |
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| Deaths | Shah Abbas massacre of the Kurdish Jekirlu |
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| Perpetrator |  Safavid Empire
Abbas the Great |
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According to the early 17th century Armenian historian Arak'el Davrizhetsi, the Sunni Kurdish tribe of Jekirlu inhabited the region of Ganja. In 1606, when Shah Abbas reconquered Ganja, he ordered a general massacre of the Jekirlu. Even infants were slaughtered with sharp swords.
