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Assyrian Woman in Nigeria Appeals for Help

Maria Lachini
Nigeria

My dear brothes and sisters: I am greeting you in the name of our Lord and Seviour Jesus Christ!

First let me introduce myself: my name is Maria Jegede. I was born in the former USSR in 1956, to an Assyrian family. My father is Lachini Sargis Dariyaush , born in 1925 and my mother is Lachini Tamara Joriil

In 1977 I graduated from the University of Foreign Languages in Alma-Ata in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The same year I was employed by the TPE Construction company and working as a Russian-English translator

I met a Nigerian engineer by the name of Jegede, who came for the traning and we were married. I have 2 daughters: Cleopatra and Suria.

My husband left us many years ago and was never intrested about our welfare.

Few years ago we desided to go back "home" because we had saffered enough in a strange land among the strangers. For the past 10 years I have not seen an Assyrin face, nor spoken a ward in my language (it makes me so lonely and frastrated) and with years I have understood, that nobody can keep you company, one can't be happy being out of his community.

So w e have desided to go back. I live in Abuja in Nigeria, but the embassy of the Russian Federation is in Lagos ... I went there to ask for the passport of the Russian Federation, because my passport was issued by USSR and there is no such country existing. Russian women advised me to change it to the passport of the Russian Rederation.

Embassy welcomed me and told me that I have to apply for the Russian citizenship by writing letter of appeal to Mr. Putin. And they have charged me money for it, which i have paid.

I was given a cover letter from the Embassy to the Immigration office not to disterb me because my USSR passport is expired....

Reply came from Moscow in few month ... It was stated, that I must produce my birth certificate. I paid extra money and gave them my birth certificate (which my father had send me previously)

My documents were send back to Moscow .....

In 2 months documents arrived... Embassy called me, I went to Lagos , where I was told that my case is a special. That I must prove that I am a former Miss Lachini. To make a long story short I must prove that I am really myself, because my birth certificate where my nationality is written does not contain my photograph..

I have called the embassy several times, appealing to them, because all Russian women got passports and only I am stranded. To go to Lagos is very expensive- economy of the country is very bad.

I am still calling them. Recently I was told by somebody not to worry myself, that I will not be given any passport.. Reason? I am Assyrian (it is in my birth certificate), that we are minorities and on the territory of the former USSR and Russia there is no land belonging to Assyrians, nobody knows such a race. That our grandfathers came there as refugees,during Russian tzar Nikolai.

I understand that I have no country anymore, I cannot claim any contry as my own. I am comming from nowhere. (ana pishli yatumta, be mara)

I have attributed all my problems to the fact that we are people without no country of our own, we are like orphans.. Scaterred about...

I am passing through mental agony , my heart is full of sorrow.

I don't know what step to take. I cannot see future for myself and for my children.

I called my father and spoke to him, explaining everything. The old man was weeping.

He advised me not to worry, that God knows best, that I must try my best and look for Assyrians. That as minority I may get assylum in USA or any other country, where human rights are respected.

I appeal to all of you to look into my case. I will send any documents required. My number is 08023109421.

My love and greetings.

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