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The Simele massacre (Syriac: ܦܪܲܡܬܵܐ ܕܣܸܡܹܠܹܐ, romanized: Premta d'Simele, Arabic: مذبحة سميل, romanized: maḏbaḥat Simīl), also known as the Assyrian affair, [8] was committed by the Kingdom of Iraq, led by Bakr Sidqi, during a campaign systematically targeting the Assyrians in and around Simele in August 1933.
Jilu Assyrians crossing the Asadabad Pass towards Baqubah, 1918. The Sayfo (Syriac: ܣܲܝܦܵܐ, lit. ' sword '), also known as the Seyfo or the Assyrian genocide, was the mass murder and deportation of Assyrian/Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan province by Ottoman forces and some Kurdish tribes during World War I.
The most significant recent persecution against the Assyrian population was the Assyrian genocide which occurred during the First World War. [127] Between 275,000 and 300,000 Assyrians were estimated to have been slaughtered by the armies of the Ottoman Empire and their Kurdish allies, totalling up to two-thirds of the entire Assyrian population.
ISIL propaganda videos show them shooting at hundreds of men lined up in mass graves in the desert. [12] Some cadets faked their death, covering themselves with blood and escaping at night. [11] Survivor Ali Hussein Kadhim told his story to The New York Times following his escape from the massacre. [11]
There were around 1.5 million Assyrians in Iraq before 1990; now, many are fleeing their ancient homelands in the face of ethnic and religious persecution, and several political movements, like the Assyrian Democratic Movement and the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council are working to help to maintain their culture. Now a big part of these ...
The architect of the genocide cases died Sept. 29, 2017, at age 81. In an interview posted on YouTube the year he died, Yeghiayan tried to rally the Armenian community to investigate the settlement.
Haydar Bey’s Assyrian Expedition occurred during World War I, when Ottoman and Kurdish forces attacked the Assyrians in Hakkari, massacred many, ...
Videos published online that Hamas says are its terrorists committing violent acts during the recent attack on Israel have spread across the app X and the messaging app Telegram, with many ...