The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> The Assassination of Marshimmun

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Thursday, February 15 2007, 22:52:20 (CET)
from 189.162.17.43 - dsl-189-162-17-43.prod-infinitum.com.mx

Mexico -

Windows XP -

Internet Explorer
Website:
Website title:

Be honest. How many thought this referred to Simko?

While we can rationalize Simko, as a Kurd, having Marshimmun killed, in time of war and who knew what else…what do we say to the murder of our next MarShimmun by one of us? There was no war…no stress on the community, except that the man had decided to partake in the most divine gift of all…marry an Assyrian woman and bring two more Assyrians into the world…for which he was shot down by a fellow-Christian while bathing his newly born son.

And the only excuse the man and the Fundamentalist Christians backing him could think of, or dare to give was that Marshimmun had insulted the assassin’s father some time before…how’s that for a reason to kill such a man?

The truth was, as always with us, very far from what we think or say. Marshimmun had tired of being importuned and used by the gaggle of “nationalist” Boys pestering him to come out in favor of their ditzy nation…a realist as well as an educated man, he knew their real motives and also knew that to call for such a thing, in Iraq, would lead to greater suffering for his people who were trying their damndest to enjoy life and who had no desire to immigrate to Disneyland. The ultimate rebuke came when he stepped down to lead a more normal and healthy life…that sealed his death warrant and a true and real Assyrian killed this most exceptional man.

Contrast this with Simko’s reasons. As I have heard the story told by people who were there and participated in these events, Simko had approached the Marshimmun at the beginning of the war and asked for an alliance against the Turks…this, he felt, was their best chance to seize land for their people. As a Kurd and Muslim Simko hated the Turks and had no trust or liking for the British and French either.

Apparently, at first, Marshimmun had been inclined to agree…but his sister was later wined and dined, flattered and even given ten cents worth of a “title” by the Brits, as they know so well how to do with us dummies, that she threw her weight on their side of the argument and convinced her brother to ally us with the Brits and also agree that we must help them in their fight…after which they would surely give us back Assyria.

Since this decision made the Kurds our nominal enemies overnight…as they were fighting only for themselves and against Brit and Turk, Simko felt he’d been stalled and then betrayed by Marshimmun…and any dispassionate reading of these events, considering there was soon to be a world war and no one knew what the outcome would be…should at least make us consider Simko’s point of view and how quickly we would have howled had the foot been in the other mouth.

It wasn’t only Simko who didn’t think an alliance with the Brits and French was a good idea, or that it would lead to anything but more suffering either way, win or lose…Agha Petrous was also against the idea, but once the Marshimmun committed them all, Petrous knew he was the only one capable of leading an Assyrian army…and that it would be futile to sit in his garden and explain to the enraged Turks that, “ I’m the good Christian who remained loyal to Turkey”…so he was compelled, as we all were, to suffer the consequences of the Marshimmun’s dissasterous habit of trusting his co-religionists no matter how deceitful they proved to be, because by God they were Chistians like us!

Contrast this with our own killing of the next Marshimmun…while caring for his baby.

And, incidentally, we did it again when the Iraqis took us in as we ran from the Muslims after the war and after the Brits betrayed us into their angry hands…when Iraq let us into the country and allowed us to settle and build our lives back up again…no sooner had the dust settled on Versailles than the Brits came back to Iraq and promiused us a country if we would only help them steal the oil, in the process destroying the trust our neighbors had shown in accepting us…by working for the Brits as a colonial police force known as the Levies..and there were any number of Assyrians at that time, Assyrians who had fought bravely but foolishly and in despair the first time around who warned that this would be another betrayal and even worse in its consequences..and while other Arabs, Hindus and Martians and Lithuanians wore that British uniform and took British guns to kill Iraqis with…we were the only ones who’d just been welcomed as refugees, fleeing for our lives with not a penny to our name…and this is how we repaid them. In that case too it was a matter of only a few Boys deciding to believe the Brits who then ruined it for all the rest of us, even those who’d been living in Iraq for centuries…and Semele was our reward...as well as being looked upon as potential traitors any time a Christian whispered promises in our arse. It tok generations for Assyrians to once again be allowed into advanced schooling and in trusted positions.

And we just did it again in this latest war against our “dear” homeland, in hopes of yet another fulfillment of promises by America and, oddly enough, those same "Promising Brits"…and this time Kurdistan is our reward...not only that; we have another set of the same damfools saying "trust me" while they trust the Western Christians yet again...is it any wonder we begin to think the only secret agents among us are our own Christians? Who else has labored like giants to betray us every time?

---------------------

- BACK TO INDEX - REPLY - QUOTE - EDIT - DELETE -

The full topic:
No replies.

Content-length: 5901
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept: */*
Accept-encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-language: es
Cache-control: no-cache
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cookie: *hidded*
Host: www.insideassyria.com
Referer: http://www.insideassyria.com/rkvsf5/rkvsf_core.php?.Qirt.
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)