very little mercy and does not look favorably at any sort of dissent. >> he was very brutal as a general. everywhere he goes, he left behind him trails of assassinations and executions. >> djemal pasha executed so many people that his nickname was "djemal the slaughterman." that's not a nickname of a peaceful man. >> general pasha's brutal tactics incite the local arab population to rebel against his control. >> so the ottoman empire was seen as corrupt, was seen as disconnected from the needs and wants of the arab population at the time. >> i think one of the great ironies of the ottoman rule was that it actually helped spur the rise of arab nationalism. they were not arabs.