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In 1915, during the Armenian genocide in Turkey, the Chaldeans of Herbole, who survived because they lived in a mountain village, were forced to abandon their village in the 1990s during the conflict between the PKK (Kurdish Workers' Party) and the Turkish armed forces. With the village's coal mines being expropriated, 11 natural water sources, the entire village cemetery, and the church were buried under excavation.In 2014, Petrus, a native of Herbole living in Paris, sold his real estate agency and returned to his village, planting 450 saplings in the burned and devastated area.