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Section Eight: The Cry of the Bábís of Nayríz
Having slain Vahíd, the Nayríz governor Zaynu’l-‘Ábidín turned his attention on the Bábís of Nayríz. His goal was their extermination. He assigned five thousand of his men to that task. 55_ACT12
Nayríz, archival photo. 56_ACT12
Massacre in Nayríz
Nabíl records what happened to the Bábís throughout Nayríz:
The men were seized, chained, ill-treated, and eventually slaughtered. The women and children were captured and subjected to brutalities which no pen dare describe. Their property was confiscated, and their houses were destroyed.
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Many of the Bábís were conducted in chains to Shíráz, and there, for the most part, suffered cruel deaths. Zaynu’l-‘Ábidín had kept back those prisoners whom he
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