Achmet Agha, their chief perpetrator, was at first condemned to death by a Turkish commission of inquiry, but he was finally pardoned.
Shefket Pasha, whose punishment was also promised, was afterwards promoted to a high command.Parl.Papers, Turkey, No.

2 (1877), pp.
248-249; _ibid_.No.15 (1877), No.

77, p.58.

Mr.Layard, successor to Sir Henry Elliott at Constantinople, afterwards sought to reduce the numbers slain to 3500.

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