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  Assyrian Genocide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Thus we wish that the untold holocaust of the Assyrian nation may not be instrumentalised to blind-fold the world but that its remembrance will be a blessing for the world by increasing the world community's awareness to fight the evils and demons of genocide in a brotherly spirit encompassing all mankind.
The Assyrian Genocide was a part of the same drawn-out, systematic official policy implemented under the cover of war on the Armenians and the Hellenes and remains today an untold Holocaust.
Thus we wish that this Assyrian untold holocaust may not be instrumentalised to blind-fold the world but that its remembrance be a blessing for the world by increasing the world community's awareness to fight the evils and demons of genocide in a brotherly spirit.
www.aua.net /assyrian_genocide.htm   (1792 words)

  
 Assyrian genocide
Genocide by the Ottomans against the Christian Assyrian population in 1915-1918.
The Turkish explanation to the deportation, was that the Assyrians were seeking autonomy, largely with the aid of the Russians.
Most of Assyrians dying during the genocide was during deportation to, and through, the Syrian Desert, largely from starvation and dehydration.
lexicorient.com /e.o/assyrian_gc.htm   (434 words)

  
 Assyrian Canadian Lobbying Committee (ACLC) - Assyrian Genocide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Assyrian Tragedy, “Livre anonyme, 1934 fevrier Annemasse”, is a rare documentary on the national struggle of the Assyrian nation prior, during and after World War I.  We believe the author of the book was Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII, a Cambridge University graduate and Patriarch of the Church of the East.
Genocide is defined as the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, religious, political, or ethnic group.  The word, from the Greek genos, meaning “race”, “nation”, or “tribe”, and the Latin cide, meaning “killing”, was named after events in Europe in 1933—45 called for a legal concept to describe the deliberate destruction of large groups.
Currently, the Assyrians are religiously and ethnically persecuted in the Middle East due to Islamic fundamentalism and Arabization, leading to land expropriations and forced emigration to the West.
www.aclconline.org /genocide   (561 words)

  
 La Lettre de l'ADL - Turkey Should Recognize the Assyrian Genocide 1915
On the one hand there were those who planned the genocide to the last detail, and there were those that resisted the genocide and sheltered Christians in their homes.
During the Second World War, when Hitler ordered the genocide against the Jews, Gypsies and all the democratic people, it is known that Hitler said "whoever mentions the genocide of the Armenian people?" It is clear to everyone that Hitler saw an opportunity due to the silence, ignorance and forgetfulness of the international public opinion.
She told me that all of my grandfather’s brothers were killed in the genocide of 1915, and that he used to mourn about them.Since I found out about this a few months ago, I have often dreamt of my late grandfather, who passed away 30 years ago.
lalettre.hayway.org /protected/en/communique000100b8.html   (2060 words)

  
 Assyrian Genocide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Assyrian population of northern Mesopotamia (Tur Abdin, Hakkari, Van, Siirt region in modern-day southeastern Turkey and Urmia region in northwestern Iran) was forcibly relocated and massacred by Ottoman (Turkish and Kurdish) forces between 1915 and 1918 under the regime of the Young Turks.
The village of Sairt/Seert, was populated by Assyrians and Armenians.
Assyrian historians state the primary reason for this lack of recognition is that Assyria has been deprived of any real political power throughout the 20th century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assyrian_genocide   (2198 words)

  
 Assyrian, Assyrians - ÇÔæÑííä¡ ÇÔæÑí   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Several Assyrian Christian families living in the predominately Assyrian District of Dora in Baghdad received yesterday Islamic letter threats of killing; if they don’t abandon their houses and leave the area.
The Assyrian Society of UK demonstration was to protest yet another injustice perpetrated against our people, this time in the Nineveh Plains, in which close to 150,000 of our people were unable to exercise their newly-found democratic voting right.
BBC News, Assyrians are descendants of the ancient empires of Assyria and Babylonia.
www.zyworld.com /Assyrian/Main.htm   (1171 words)

  
 Assyrian International News Agency
Mar Yabhalaha, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church, is imprisoned and tortured by Arabs; the church of Mar Shalita is destroyed.
It was observed by the Turks and the Moslems of Tabriz The Assyrians landed.
During the night, as the Assyrians were resting near Sayen Kala, and as they fell asleep from fatigue and exhaustion, the pursuers stationed themselves over the hills that commanded the narrow road that followed the course of the river which runs zigzag through the valley.
www.aina.org /martyr.html   (8950 words)

  
 Assyrian Genocide
What Mar Shimun Bar Sabaee, the first Assyrian Patriarch had done, during the persecution of Shapur the Magi, in the fourth century, was now to be gloriously repeated by another bishop of his church in the twentieth century.
March 5, 1915 About 800 Assyrians who remained in Salamas, most of whom were old people, with some of the poorer and younger women, were gathered together and killed.
In the course of the friendly interview between the Patriarch and The Kurdish chief, one of the men who had accompanied Mar Shimon into the house, noticed from the window the presence of the concealed Kurds on the surrounding roofs.
members.fortunecity.com /fstav1/assyria/assyrians_1915.html   (1268 words)

  
 Genocides in Europe, the Middle East, and the Former Soviet Union
The Genocide of the Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks.
The Genocide of the Armenians and the Silence of the Turks.
Eyewitness to Genocide in Kosovo: Kosovo-Metohija and the Skenderbeg Division.
learning.lib.vt.edu /slav/genocide.html   (4402 words)

  
 Zinda 23 April 2005
Ottoman Assyrians flee to Russia,Iran, Aleppo and Jerusalem in wake of the genocide.
To return the Assyrian plundered properties, and to re-build the villages, which were, destroyed as a result of the military operations in the area between the Turkish government and the Kurdish separatists.
That is when over 300,000 Assyrians, two-thirds of the population of Mosul, had to relinquish their legal and rightful land, the Province, and the City of Mosul, with a great number of fatalities, and to move away from their ancestral domain, to Syria, Iran and Russia.
www.zindamagazine.com /html/archives/2005/4.23.05/index_sat.php   (9514 words)

  
 From Survival to Revival: In the Aftermath of the Assyrian Genocide
The Assyrian men, women and children, when faced with their own extinction, have paid over and over again in blood and in numbers for the right to exist and to have a name in their ancestral homelands.
Contrary to the concept of homicide, the intentional of murder of an individual, Genocide means the destruction of a group as the outcome of governmental policy.
In the aftermath of the horrible massacre by the Ottoman Sultan Abdul-Hamid in 1894-1896, which claimed thousands of Assyrians, the Assyrians were unable to heal their wounds because the direst time of their entire history on earth, their genocide, was waiting like an angel of death at the door.
www.angelfire.com /space2/harmony-26/Survival-To-Revival   (3332 words)

  
 Response to Denial
The first article in the series was written after a genocide conference in Stockholm in early 2003.[1] Ince labels the Swedish academics who participated in the conference as “mercenaries”, ie paid soldiers.
It is clearly implied that the Assyrians pay the academics of the Swedish Universities, which of course is a fabrication of Ince’s; the Assyrians lack the resources which the Turkish Republic enjoys.
While the Turkish consulate official are expected to abandon their normal duties and, where possible prevent, and/or attend genocide conferences to sabotage them, it is quite hypocritical to say that the study of the genocide should be left to the historians.
www.umd.umich.edu /dept/armenian/bts/liesinturkish.html   (3379 words)

  
 Assyrian Genocide Seyfo 1915: The Missing Chapter of Ottoman History - Assyrian News Agency
The genocide of over 750,000 Assyrian Christians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1915 has largely been forgotten by the world.
This pain and suffering continues in the collective conscience of the Assyrian Christians as Turkey continues to deny and publicly denounce responsibility for this largely forgotten genocide during the First World War.
Andrew Michael of Firodil Institute said: “We are organising this event to present academic scholars and students alike with unbiased and factual information regarding the genocide of the Assyrians.
assyriatimes.com /engine/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3200   (230 words)

  
 www.firodil.co.uk - Books
Seyfo: the Assyrian Genocide in International Law by Ninos Warda is a profound book that provides a coherent insight into the experience of Assyrian people during the atrocious events of WWI in Ottoman Turkey.
Therefore, the fate of the Assyrians resembles the fate of the Sinti and Roma in the Jewish genocide committed by Nazi Germany.
Third, the Assyrian genocide was passed on from generation to generation through the oral tradition of the Assyrians.
www.firodil.co.uk /2.html   (964 words)

  
 The Assyrian in the Christian Asia Minor Holocaust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Russia's withdrawal from Persia, unbeknown to the Assyrians, was a cause for concern.
Genocide is only possible when extensive resources are devoted to the destruction of the victim group, in our case the Assyrians.
To this day, Assyrian girls in particular, are abducted by Turks and Kurds in historic Assyria, a practice aimed at forcing their marriage to Muslims.
aanf.org /America/assyrians/assyrian_christian.htm   (5739 words)

  
 April 22, 2002
In this context the Armenian Genocide came also to represent the genocide of all Christians in the area, simply because the Armenians are the largest Christian ethnic population that was exterminated.
A correction in the majority report from the Standing Committee of year 2000 on the Armenian Genocide, which the majority has forgotten to carry out is that statement of the EU Parliament was not taken 1985, which one can believe when you read the text from year 2000.
Assyrian Seyfo (Genocide) International Committee (ASIC) is a global body striving to achieve international recognition and shed some light on the atrocities of the first inhuman acts of the past century, that were perpetrated against our people by the Ottoman empire which was succeeded by the Turkish republic.
www.zindamagazine.com /html/archives/2002/4.22.02/index.php   (10632 words)

  
 Assyrian Genocide of 1915 - Sayfo Remembrance Cards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Remember the 750,000 Assyrians who were Martyred by the Ottoman Turks and the Kurds in the Genocide of 1915.
A picture of the bodies of a woman with her two young boys lying dead after being murdered as was the fate of hundreds of thousands of Assyrians during the Genocide.
The burns of the Monastery, which was the See of the Patriarch of the Assyrian Orthodox Church during the Genocide of 1915.
www.bethsuryoyo.com /cards/Sayfo/Sayfo.html   (427 words)

  
 Kurdistan Recognizes the Armenian Genocide
On April 24, 1915, the decision of mass genocide and annihilation of the Assyrian-Syrian and the Armenian peoples was taken by the Ottoman Empire.
The blueprints of and the logistics for this genocide being prepared ahead of time, they employed Hamidiye Alaylari from Kurdish tribes (Similar to the present day Village Guards system who kill our people) to commit history’s, until then unknown, Genocide.
In this Genocide, millions of Armenians and Assyrian-Syrians were killed, and millions others were deported from their homes and land and scattered to the four corners of the world.
www.cilicia.com /armo10i_kurdistan.html   (649 words)

  
 Assyrian Coalition for Truth and Justice - News
We will depart from the typical Assyrian tradition that is to arrive late.
I hope you all enjoyed the film and came out with a greater appreciation for the language which we are learning, which was in the civilized world then, as English is now.
Assyrian Church of the East/ Mar Yosip Parish
www.assyriancoalition.com /html/modules/news   (3772 words)

  
 www.firodil.co.uk - News & Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Donny George is an Assyrian who had to flee due to the escalating persecution of Assyrian Christians in the new Iraq.
Eastern Standard Time, Rosie Malek-Yonan, author of The Crimson Field, testified on Capitol Hill before a Congressional Committee of the 109th Congress on religious freedom regarding the genocide, massacres and persecution of Assyrians in Iraq by Kurds and Islamists.
She compared the Assyrian Genocide of 1914-1918, as depicted in her epic and historical novel The Crimson Field, to the current plight of the indigenous Assyrian Christians in Iraq.
www.firodil.co.uk /3.html   (179 words)

  
 Assyrian General Conference - AGC
The World Must Speak About the Assyrian Genocide
Assyrian General Conference letter to the Iraqi President
Joint declaration from the united conference between The Assyrian Democratic Party and Assyria Liberation Party
www.assyrianconference.com /English.html   (158 words)

  
 AUA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
AUA names August 7th Assyrian National Martyrs Day
The Assyrian Universal Alliance and the Iraqi Constitution
AUA release on the Assyrian Concerns and the Iraqi Constitution
www.aua.net   (83 words)

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