“Kafno” The genocide of Mount Lebanon’s Inhabitants during WWI in the wake of the Armenian genocide

[TomSea]

I believe this was mainly a man-made famine.

“Kafno”  The genocide of Mount Lebanon’s Inhabitants during WWI in the wake of the Armenian genocide

During WWI, Between 1914 and 1915, Lebanon witnessed a genocide, rarely ever spoken of.

Unfortunately, our schools always taught that the famine that decimated about half of the Lebanese population, was due to an “unfortunate coincidence of disparate factors”. According to official history, it’s about the maritime blockade of the allies, the land blockade of the Ottomans and the locusts’ invasion.

The French have rejected any responsibility by claiming that the majority of cereals and other food usually came from the Bekaa side and Hauran, and that imports on the maritime side were very secondary. However, the land blockade on Lebanon remains strategically inexplicable and with no convincing reason.

All data proves that the famine of Mount Lebanon was planned, organized, instigated and well-desired by the Ottomans. ...

Read more at:  https://medium.com/@AsAbove_SoBelow/kafno-7757e64b3569

[Absalom]

Of course it was, as well as the earlier 1894 genocide.
Islam, an intolerant and ignorant neurosis, masquerades as
a religion when in fact it's simply another dictatorial system.
The Armenian Christians, earlier inhabitants of the the Fertile
Crescent, were seen by the Ottoman paranoids as subversives
having affinity w/the Russian people and their orthodox faith.
Hence the Ottomans decided to get rid of them. Period!