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Assyrians of Iraq

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Thursday, January 24 2008, 20:30:35 (CET)
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The trouble in Iraq started when the British settled the Assyrian refugees from Turkey and Persia there after the First World War. The Brits said they would try to resettle them all in one area but never managed to do it, for whatever reason. The Iraqi government offered to settle them in scattered villages, many owned by the government but they refused. They also used them, as Levies, against the Kurds and even the Iraqis themselves, contrary to the wishes of their leaders because they knew this would cause animosity towards them but the Brits went ahead and did it anyway, saying it was their “duty” to serve the Iraqi government as loyally as they had the Brits.

By the time the Brits finally confessed that the Mandates Commission was NOT going to include their lands in Hakari as part of the new Iraq and that they’d just have to settle, as the Kurds, for being citizens of Iraq, they had made themselves unwelcome additionally by acting as if they had some special status as wards of the British Empire…which was appreciated even less by the Iraqis.

Plus which their young Marshimun next insisted his followers go to Syria where surely the French would “do something” for them…they didn’t. It was on their return that shooting started and that was the last straw. The massacre at Semele was punishment and a warning…as is standard behavior for every government faced with insurrection…ask the Americans. Tragic but nothing hard to understand…certainly nothing unique or unheard of…when you consider the Christians of Europe had just ended four years of senseless slaughter in which millions of Christians killed millions of Christians…after all the bloodshed of that war, the massacre at Semele was nothing, literally nothing to the WORLD we kept yelping to. The world’s reaction, if it even cared, was “big deal…you call THAT a massacre”?

The Assyrians were forced to settle in Iraq…for one thing because since taking up arms against their neighbors, in Turkey, at the behest of the Brits, they weren’t welcome back. From Iraq’s point of view the newly settled Assyrians weren’t their problem. They hadn’t chased them out of Turkey and Persia, they hadn’t settled them in Iraq, the Brits had and the Brits had used them against Iraqis…creating bad blood that wouldn’t go away for some time, if at all.

From Iraq’s point of view, these foreign Assyrians created their own problems or certainly weren’t “attacked” by Iraq until they started trouble because of their misunderstanding with the Brits…what had this to do with Iraq? Why was Iraq supposed to take care of these people…what did Iraq owe them, besides allowing them to settle as law abiding citizens once they were and could not return to their own lands…which was more than enough in itself.

It was never the Assyrians already living in Iraq who caused the problems…it was the refugees…and most of them didn’t cause the trouble. It was, as always, a group of hotheads, of the Marshimun’s clan, who were the rabble-rousers…and they still are.

Iraq owed nothing and owes nothing today to the Assyrians who moved to Iraq in 1918 and decided it was THEIR indigenous land. Bullshit.

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