The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> history repeats itself.....so does maggie...

history repeats itself.....so does maggie...
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By:Maggie Yonan
Date: 4/10/2013, 2:00 pm

These "letters from Assyria" are compiled in Coakley's book, The church of the East and the Church of England. The following letter by Mr. Browne, writing to England about the Assyrian condition in 1894:

1-"The Turkish government does not protect the Assyrians, almost does not pretend that it cares to protect the subjects from extravagant blackmailing and forcible of goods, nor from violence by Kurdish Aghas.

2-It connives at grievous extortions and unlawful methods on the Assyrian farmers of the corn and produce-tax.

3-Itself, by executive officers, is over and over again guilty of unlawful exaction by force; and its agents act cruelly and contrary to law. The net result is great impoverishment of the Assyrian people, and depopulation in gross and in detail."

....Dr Joseph deals with both sides of this issue, as a true historian and not a propagandist would, by showing that both Christians and Muslims suffered under a system of gross corruption...not only Christians but Muslim farmers were abused in these ways...the problem was feudalism, not religion.

After Browne reported to England that the Assyrians are fleeing the Turkish and Kurdish massacres and starvation, the Turkish government responded in the following manner:

...and where Turks to run to when starvation came as a result of the Christian war against them? What about all the Turks murdered by Christian soldiers? This gets boring....all sides suffered, period. But, since that war, how many more wars have Christians brought to the world...and how many have Muslims brought? And, who attacked who? It was the Christians who saw Turkey as a "sick old man" and showed the world how they treat such old men,,,by killing them and stealing their homes and goods.

"The Assyrians that are fleeing to Urmia are not refugees. They are Tajireen."

Sounds familiar???? I was STUNNED, to say the least.

History repeating itself.............


..as you are, ad nauseum.



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