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Posted by Maggie (Guest) - Tuesday, December 12 2006, 0:09:58 (CET)
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Dear Dr. Osipov,

I agree with most of your assessments below, on the sorry state of Assyria. I have always said NO ONE CAN CONQUER A NATION FROM THE OUTSIDE UNLESS IT IS READY TO DESTROY ITSELF FROM THE INSIDE, and this is what has happened to us!

We can work for the Assyrian nation selflessly all we want, and year after year, without ever tiring, and without ever seeking payment of any kind, but we can NEVER win against those who control the money and the power of Assyrian organizations and who call themselves "nationalistic" and "Christian" but seem to run-off all the truly educated and dedicated people who work for this nation for FREE. If an organization cannot even appreciate its own volunteer workers, and seems to dig graves for them every other day, due to internal petty jealousies, envy, insecurities, and down-right mean-spiritedness of a couple of individuals within the organization, then I'm afraid our end is nearer than you think!

How do you expect these so-called Christian Assyrian nationalists, who advertise their nationalism day in and day out, to raise Assyria, if they cannot even stand another Assyrian whom they perceive a "threat" to them? Is that nationalism or even Christianity? I THINK NOT!!!!

Self-Inflicted Genocide

A Guest Opinion

Prof. Sargis Osipov, MD, PhD
Moscow, Russia

For a number of years now, I have been closely tracking copious literature in which Armenian and Assyrian scholars and organizations deal with the WWI-period Ottoman genocides of their peoples. I sincerely appreciate the Assyrian effort to gain a better insight into the matter. At the same time, I keep wondering whether this issue is all that important for the modern Assyrians. Indeed, how on earth can all this research help our self-assertion these days?

In a recent paper, I argued that the Ottoman massacres of Armenians and Assyrians in the period from 1914 to 1918 are not the same thing as the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews. Unlike the WWII-period Jews, the WWI Armenians and Assyrians offered mass stiff resistance to their oppressors. The Armenian forces of General Agha Andranik and the Assyrian forces of General Agha Putrus actually killed or captured numerous Ottoman troops in battle. This means that the Armenians and the Assyrians were at de facto war with the Ottomans. A la guerre comme a la guerre …, but with a difference. In 1795, an invading army from Iran left no stone in place in the Georgian capital Tbilisi. Directed and led by the Iranian ruler at the time, the ugly beardless castrate Agha Magomet-Khan, Iranian soldiers ripped the abdomens of pregnant Georgian women and killed small Georgian children by smashing their heads against rocks. The story is the same with the Seljuq and the Ottoman Turks, wherever they sent their conquering hordes. Accounts of genocidal events in Simel in Iraq in 1933 spoke about similar cruelty by Arabs and Kurds. This is their culture, this is their mindset.

Assyrians usually behaved very differently. Upon capturing Urmia early in 1918, the Assyrian General Agha Putrus Elov hanged a local Assyrian guerilla named Shamasha Farhad for arbitrarily executing a former Iranian governor of the area (the governor’s name was Sardar). After being disarmed, many of the Turkish soldiers captured by Putrus’s forces were expediently made free. This is our culture, this is our mindset.

Last October, Parliament in France made it a criminal offence to even cast doubt on the genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks. The Russian political analyst Dr Alexei Yeremenko saw this as the opening of Pandora’s Box. Poland and nations and peoples in the Caucasus are now welcome to heap blame on Russia, the Spanish-speaking nations in Latin America, draw the sword on Spain, and the United States, make all alien arrivals at entry ports put their right hands against the heart and loudly recite the Pledge of Allegiance. So, what is in store for us?

The Assyrians are now on the verge of destroying themselves with their own hands. And it’s time I clearly wrote, or rather shouted at the top of my voice, about a self-inflicted genocide. Riveted to our tragic past, we fail to recognize what is happening to us in the present. Why do we stay so indifferent to endless tribulations that we create ourselves? We are actually in the process of carrying an unheard-of self-genocide from within. And this genocide from within is a hundred times more dangerous than the worst of genocides from without. The current self-treatment of the Assyrians, the Chaldeans and the Syriacs – or whatever else we may call ourselves – amounts to genocide with a vengeance.

I want everyone to clearly understand the various aspects of this self-inflicted genocide. They are as follows:

-neglect of our national identity and name;
-all-inclusive strife, in which each one of us is prepared to be kind to anybody except a fellow Assyrian;
-unending rivalries among a multitude of purposeless organizations of the Assyrians;
-a split into a spectrum of Churches, in which each Patriarch sees himself as the ultimate Caesar and Pope;
-contempt by many of the new Assyrian rich of intellectuals in our midst: Mr Karl Suleiman, for instance, keeps taunting them by saying they wouldn’t be so desperately poor if they were really intelligent;
-paternalism, pushing Assyrians to expect solutions to their problems from others;
-forgetfulness and even contempt of the sorrows of Assyrians in poor countries on the part of Assyrians who are now nationals of great powers like Russia or the United States;
-mass Assyrian indulgence in crime, racket and easy-money businesses like gambling and drugs;
-Assyrian tendency not to mind the future of the Assyrian people and seek short-term gain instead by submitting to the Arabs, the Iranians or the Kurds;
-skepticism towards selfless effort and self-sacrifice for the sake of the Assyrian nation;
-tribalism, usually fanned by unjustified ambition;
-spiritual void and lack of national pride;
-easy submission to the deadly scourge of ethnic assimilation;
-apparent readiness to put up with the prospect of a finally disappearing Assyrian nation.

This genocide must be brought to an end. Failure to stop it will make the living generation of the Assyrians their last in this world. And this, in turn, will be remembered on Doomsday.

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