The International Herald Tribune
June 23, 2005 Thursday

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1905: Islamic Riots in Russia

ST. PETERSBURG: Thirty-seven thousand insurgents in the district of
Shahukhan, in the province of Erivan (trans-Caucasian Russia), have
sacked and burned four Armenian villages and surrounded
Owlianorashan, the inhabitants of which repulsed the attack, killing
a hundred men. At Nakhichevan, in the province of Erivan, the
Armenians have been completely ruined. Their houses have been
demolished and burned down, their personal belongings looted, their
cattle carried off and their crops destroyed.