However, the execution of government decrees, which took a systematic form from December 1916, when Behaeddin Shakir came to the region, was not conducted as ordered: men were taken in labour battalions, women and children were attacked, villages were looted by Muslim neighbours.
Akan tetapi, pelaksanaan dekret pemerintah, yang mengambil bentuk sistematis sejak Desember 1916, ketika Behaeddin Syakir mendatangi daerah tersebut, tidak dilakukan seperti yang diperintahkan: para pria dimasukkan ke dalam batalion buruh, wanita dan anak-anak diserang, desa-desa dijarah oleh tetangga-tetangga Muslimnya.