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According to Joseph Naayem, Suto Agha of Oramar, described as the “Attila of Hakkari,” came from the town of Ouramar near the Great Baba River. In his 1920 account, Naayem wrote that Suto burned and pillaged over forty Assyro-Chaldean villages in [[Hakkari]] and put to the sword some 50,000 people from the districts of [[Tkhuma]], [[Tyari]], and [[Barwar]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Naayem |first=Joseph |url=http://archive.org/details/shallthisnationd00naay |title=Shall this nation die? |date=1921 |publisher=New York, Chaldean rescue |others=The Library of Congress}}</ref> |
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Kurdish tribal chieftain of the Oramar tribe
Suto Agha of Oramar (Kurdish: سوتو ئاغای ئۆرامار, Suto Axa Oramarê; also spelled Sutu, Soto, or Sito Agha) was a Kurdish tribal chieftain of the Oramar tribe in Hakkâri during the late Ottoman period and World War I.[1] He was a prominent local leader known for his authority over the Oramar tribe and his influence in the Hakkâri region. He and his followers were known as the “Wolves of the Kurdistan Mountains”[2]
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According to Joseph Naayem, Suto Agha of Oramar, described as the “Attila of Hakkari,” came from the town of Ouramar near the Great Baba River. In his 1920 account, Naayem wrote that Suto burned and pillaged over forty Assyro-Chaldean villages in Hakkari and put to the sword some 50,000 people from the districts of Tkhuma, Tyari, and Barwar.[4]
