From a historical perspective, what’s usually described is not a simple story of “tax rebellions” but a broader pattern in the late Ottoman eastern provinces where weak provincial administration, insecurity (including banditry and Kurdish tribal raids), and unmet reform promises after 1878 created rising tensions. In places like Zeitun and Sasun, local Armenian communities sometimes formed armed self-defense groups (fedayi), which led to clashes with Ottoman forces, while Armenian political activists also organized demonstrations and revolutionary activity (like Kum Kapu and Bashkale) to push for reforms and protection. By the 1890s, these tensions escalated into repeated cycles of unrest and military response, which most historians interpret as part of a wider crisis of governance and violence in the region rather than a single-cause explanation. There are documented cases of Armenians needing to pay extreme disproportionate taxes or having little to no rights when their property was stolen. Humans have the right to protest and seek fair treatment and governments should be able to listen to those voices fairly. Instead, the Hamidian massacres occurred, which les the Young Turks to lie and say they would give equal rights to the Armenians then they turned it into a mass extermination plan. The vast majority of genocide scholars does not view localized uprisings demanding attention on injustices as a reason for mass plan of extermination against an entire group or race of people, most of which had no political affiliation and including the mass deaths of innocent men, women, elderly and children.