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Deloyloy also serves as an historical document, providing a detailed account of the events of the conflict even as it interprets and comments upon them. Names of key the figures of the resistance and names of the places are noted. Details such as how the British flew in reinforcements from India to battle against the Kurds are also described in the song. The main tone of this sonic battle for the Dengbêj is the notion of betrayal. Each stanza of the song closes with the refrain: Oh the Kurds, the traitors… This is an allusion to the internal divisions among Kurdish groups, some of whom collaborated with the British, such as the native policemen in the silence cabin, delivering the message in Kurdish, from inside the modified Victoria Vickers. Taken by the microphone, his voice is amplified 1.600.000 times, and pushed through the speaker cones, raining down as “verbal bombs”.

— "Boyraz

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Let’s remember the microphone in the silence cabin of Victoria Vickers and whisper these questions to it: Could this same microphone delivering the verbal bombs, be used by Kawîs Axa to record the songs of the rebellion? Can the machine take sides, can it be forced to betray itself? And in the contemporary landscape of militarized skies, can the song speak louder and for longer than the machine?

— "Boyraz

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The article underneath gives the political context. Accordingly, Sir Philip Sassoon, the British Under-Secretary of State for Air, defended the use of airpower in colonial contexts, in his speech on the estimated costs of the airborne efforts in Kurdistan at the House of Commons during the March 1933 meeting. He argues that it was a more cost-effective method of control compared to ground operations.[4] According to him, a “sky-shouting” method of delivering propaganda in advance of open conflict was successfully used against Sheikh Mahmoud (Barzanji) and Ahmad,[5] and “had a good deal to do with the collapse of this rebellion in North Kurdistan” (The Illustrated London News 1933, p. 503).^[6]

— "Boyraz

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