Kuhnashahir incident
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| Kuhnashahir incident | |||||||
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| Part of the Simko Shikak Revolt Assyrian-Kurdish Conflict | |||||||
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Simko Shikak |
 Mar Shimun XIX Bemyamin X | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| unknown | 150 Bodyguards | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| unknown | All 150 Bodyguard Dead | ||||||
In 3 March 1918, Mar Benyamin along with many of his 150 bodyguards were assassinated by Simko Shikak (Ismail Agha Shikak), a Kurdish agha, in the town of Kuhnashahir in Salmas (Persia) under a truce flag