... Lately seven other Zaptiehs, who had not even the pretext of collecting the taxes, entered our village, beat the inhabitants, insulted the Christian religion, and dishonoured our wives and daughters, after which they seized three men who protested—Boghos, Mardig, and Krikor—bound them with a twofold chain and hung them up by the feet from the rafters.  They left them in this position until the blood began to flow from their nostrils.  These poor men fell ill in consequence.  The Zaptiehs, however, declared publicly that they had treated the people thus merely in obedience to the special orders of the chief of the police... (Contemporary Review, v.68, 1895)