Imagine an ancient civilization physically atomized by a single bureaucratic order—the "Rule of 20"—specifically designed to ensure that no more than twenty individuals of a specific culture could reside in any single location. In this episode of pplpod, we conduct a structural archaeology of the Sayfo, deconstructing the mass murder and deportation of Assyrian Christians in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. We unpack the administrative logic of the Millet System, analyzing how religious compartmentalization left a people politically fractured before the 1914 Hakkari Mountains mobilization. We deconstruct the "Butcher Battalion" led by Jevdet Bey and the rogue extermination campaigns of Mehmed Rashid in Diyarbakir, who utilized bureaucratic loopholes ...