"Jaffar Agha, chief of the Kurds of Chari...had been contumacious towards the Government (Qajars), and resisted a small expedition sent to punish him...He was invited to come to Tabriz to cement the reconciliation...an officier discharged a revolver into the chieftain's body...

The authorities made as much capital as they could out of the three corpses (Jafar Agha and his 2 bodyguards), having them dragged in triumph through the streets and then hung by the heels, like carcasses in a butcher's shop, from a first floor balcony overlooking a public square

The horrible treachery of the thing provoked little or no cristicism. It was the time-honoured way of dealing with Kurds, and, in view of the impotence of the Government, pracrically the only way. The folly of the Kurds in letting themselves be entrapped time after time in this

Manner is almost unbelievable, but they never seemed to gain wisdom from experience"

A. C. Wrastislaw, A Consul in the East