“As the two Indian cavalry brigades fighting under British General Edmund Allenby helped liberate Haifa from the Turkish-German forces, the British authorities heaved a sigh of relief. In a cable, General Allenby wrote, “Have today taken Palestine. Notify the world that Abdu’l Baha is safe.”

The spiritual leader of Bahai religion, a faith that began to emerge in the Ottomon empire in the 19th century, lived in Haifa, in present-day Israel. Alarmed by the growing popularity of Abdu’l Baha and his humanitarian and religious activities, the Turkish commander-in-chief threatened to crucify Abdu’l Baha on Mount Carmel in Haifa and destroy all the shrines of the Bahai faith as soon as the Ottomans won the war.

When the news of the death threat spread amongst the British community in Egypt and elsewhere in Europe, Major Tudor-Pole, an intelligence officer with the British army in Palestine and a follower of Abdu’l Baha, persuaded the military authorities to rescue the leader.”

Ref : https://books.google.co.in/books?id=LWLBAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA522&lpg=PA522&dq=A+government+who+had+already+shown+it+did+not+care+about+the+civilians+of+the+countries+it+invaded.&source=bl&ots=8k25gjBzZv&sig=DhzFWMgQskItYF1qB-GZEy8QU0w&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=A%20government%20who%20had%20already%20shown%20it%20did%20not%20care%20about%20the%20civilians%20of%20the%20countries%20it%20invaded.&f=false

The Iranian holocaust of 1917-19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWc8-P29wIc

The Great Famine & Genocide in Iran

1917-1919, 2nd Edition

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780761861683/The-Great-Famine-and-Genocide-in-Iran-1917-1919-2nd-Edition#

“At least 8-10 million Iranians out of a population of 18-20 million died of starvation and disease during the famine of 1917-1919. The Iranian holocaust was the biggest calamity of World War I and one of the worst genocides of the 20th century, yet it remained concealed for nearly a century. The 2003 edition of this book relied primarily on US diplomatic records and memoirs of British officers who served in Iran in World War I, but in this edition these documents have been supplemented with US military records, British official sources, memoirs, diaries of notable Iranians, and a wide array of Iranian newspaper reports. In addition, the demographic data has been expanded to include newly discovered US State Department documents on Iran’s pre-1914 population. This book also includes a new chapter with a detailed military and political history of Iran in World War I. A work of enduring value, Majd provides a comprehensive account of Iran’s greatest calamity.”