Silent witnesses to the Syriac genocide

Silent witnesses to the Syriac genocide

Arbo, a village near Nusaybin district in the province of Mardin that is hardly known today, is once again coming to the forefront of history more than a century after the genocide of the Syriacs. During renovation work on the Mor Dimet Church, the largest of the village's seven churches, residents stumbled upon a mass grave; numerous skulls and bones stored in an underground vault deep beneath the altar area. What initially appeared to be an ar…