Karak revolt
Karak revolt | |||||||
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Syria Vilayet | |||||||
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Ottoman Empire | Inhabitants of Al-Karak | ||||||
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Sami Pasha | Muhemet Tahir Pasha | ||||||
The Karak revolt was an uprising against
Al-Karak rose in revolt days after the arrival of an Ottoman census team, and insurgency quickly spread to neighboring towns of
Background
After the rise of
Sami Pasha sent a telegram on 6 November 1910 from Jabal Druze to the Al-Karak
Rebellion
The Ottoman troops arrived in Al-Karak and conducted a census as if they had no intention of conscripting, while the Karakis went along with the census as if they had no intent on rebelling. Ottoman census teams conducted registration for 15 days without collecting weapons. At the same time, Qadr
The rebels acted without strategy: they only wanted to eliminate any Ottoman presence in their lives, almost temporarily ignoring the fact that behind the local government lay a large empire. Sami Pasha arrived at Al-Karak from Damascus with an army ten days later, intending to free the besieged officials in the castle and to restore Ottoman rule. The revolt in Al-Karak revealed the limits of Ottoman rule in Transjordan; measures of registration and conscription accepted in the northern towns of Ajloun and Al-Salt, provoked a large scale rebellion in the southern towns. Ajloun and Al-Salt had been Ottoman kazas for 43 years, while Al-Karak had only been so for 17 years.[5]
Aftermath
Sami Pasha's forces suppressed the revolt with an indiscriminate massacre,[3] and the leaders of the revolt were executed; 5 in Damascus and another 5 in Al-Karak as an example to their fellow villagers. The inhabitants of Al-Karak were forced to pay compensation for all the damage done to state property. Hundreds of Karakis were imprisoned in Damascus and given harsh sentences ranging from years of hard labour to lifetime imprisonment.[7] The demographic and economic recovery of Al-Karak was further undermined by the brutal suppression of the uprising.[8] A general amnesty in 1912 ended the matter and released the prisoners from the revolt.[3] The brutal suppression of the revolt greatly angered the locals and is thought to have contributed to their support of the 1916 Great Arab Revolt.[4]
See also
- Shoubak Revolt(1905)
- Great Arab Revolt (1916)
References
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