Gallo Shabo

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Gallo Shabo

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Gallo Shabo, the Syriac-Aramean leader and commander of the defense of Iwardo during the genocide of 1915.

Under his leadership, he successfully gathered a resistance force of 6,000 Syriac-Arameans to protect the village against 13,000 Kurds and Turks, who sought to kill all the Christian Syriac-Arameans of Iwardo.