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Posted by parhad (Guest) - Tuesday, October 26 2004, 19:22:52 (CEST)
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..this is a letter appealling for help in ending an injustice....a Christian, not Assyrian, village being supposedly taken over by Kurds...it doesn't say if the land has been abandoned because the boys and Bush have made being Christian in the Iraqi countryside especially dangerous..or if people are being evicted.

What I find startling and so indicative of the reasons for this kind of blind spot mentality that only credits your own suffering and dreams as worthy, is that ALL of the people of Iraq could have written this letter to the UN or any number of nations..and in fact several no doubt did....

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LETTER TO THE FREE WORLD TO SAVE "DARA"

...why can't this read..."TO SAVE IRAQ"? We KNOW the war was illegal...we KNOW it was immoral...we KNOW they didn't go to liberate anybody and we KNOW Iraq has lost billions and billions and future billions and will never be the same again..we also know that outside USERPERS were put in the government s puppets..is that NOT "taking over" an entire country? If that is allowed to stand and still condoned by this very person...who is crying for consideration for his VILLAGE...then why should the same people who ignored the plight of Iraq care two bits for a village IN Iraq? Is it the Christian thing again? If it is...then that is exactly the PROBLEM...people are being valued on the basis of their religion and not their humanity..which is precisely what these same Christians did to the JEWS...when the world also turned a deaf ear....there can be no justice for some till there is justice for ALL...it says so...right there in the pledge...

Posted By: SON OF DARA (cache-dtc-aa04.proxy.aol.com)
Date: Monday, 25 October 2004, at 7:43 p.m.

I am of Assyrian decent,

...just replace "Assyrian" or "Christian" with "Iraqi" or "Muslim"...or "Jew" for that matter....it reads much better. Also replace "Kurdish" with "American" or "Foreigners"...also replace the village "Dara"...with the country, "Iraq".

born in Northern Iraq and have been residing in England for the past 25 years. Today, after speaking to the people of my village (Dara), I upsettingly found out, that our Kurdish neighbors have invaded our village. The Kurdish people are building homes on our villages land, without our permission. It is sad to say, that even though this land was earned by our villagers thousands of years ago and has never seen any problem within it, that now after the fall of a treacherous dictator, our own neighbors are stealing it from us.

I am not only upset that my personal land has being taken away from me, but at the same time,that the land of our villages Churches and Shrines (St. Odisho and St. George) have been taken away without any permission. Both of these are very well known and respected churches amongst our belief and the Assyrian People. Until this day, religious services are held at both of these holy sites. Also, I’d like to make it clear that 60% (if not more) of this land is owned by both of the aboved mentioned churches, and the rest not only owned by the People of Dara, but also its neighboring villages; Marastik and Komana.

You may ask, why We (Assyrian Community and the villagers of Dara) are now crying to you. The reasoning is because, we have no hope left. We have complained about this matter numerous times, to; the Kurdish Political Parties, His Excellence Qiam Miqaam (Governor of Amadiya and Son of Mahssun). Mahssun happens not only to be a delegate in the KurdishGovernment, but also happens to be the father-in-law of His Excellency Hoshar Zebari (Iraqs Foreign Minister). All of whom are very well known to the Iraqi People and International Governments. Because of their titles/positions in the new Iraqi Government.

If these persons who have been sworn in to “serve and protect” the people of there nation, are allowing this to happen and are not listening to the cries of simple villagers, then who will. NOW I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND WHY OUR CRIES ARE TO YOU, OUR LAST HOPE, THE PEOPLE OF THE FREE WORLD. I am sending this letter to: Prime Minister Blair and all of Englands Parliament, To the President of the United States and all its Congressmen and Senators, to His Excellency Kofi Annan of the United Nations, to His Holiness The Pope, to all Catholic, Orthodox, Presbyterian, and Christian Churches and Organizations, and to anyone else that is willing to answer our cries for help.

I have but one question that I’d love to ask His Excellency Hoshar Zebari and you probably would too.

Why Mr. Zebari for years had you fought continuously against Saddam Regime from entering your Kurdish Villages, but now you are following his footsteps, by allowing your people to rampage My Village?

Thank You For Your Time,

SON OF DARA

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