1894 Sasun rebellion

First Sasun Resistance
Part of Armenian resistance during the Armenian genocide

Location of the 1894 and 1904 Sasun uprisings
Date1894
Location
Result

Ottoman victory

  • Suppression of the Armenian resistance, followed by wholesale massacres of Armenian civilian population
Belligerents
Hunchak Party

Ottoman Empire

Commanders and leaders
Mihran Damadian
Hampartsoum Boyadjian
Hrayr Dzhoghk
Abdul Hamid II
Strength
8,000 10,000
Casualties and losses
20,000 rebel and civilians 550

The Sasun rebellion of 1894, also known as the First Sasun resistance (Armenian: Սասնո առաջին ապստամբութիւն), was the conflict between Ottoman Empire's Hamidiye forces and the Armenian fedayi belonging to the Armenian national movement's Hunchakian party in the Sasun region.