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“Some Assyrians were content to stay in new homes in Iraq, a few had already returned to Persia, others had proved resolute and successful in regaining their ancestral mountains. All were intensely community-conscious, although the unifying authority of the Mar Sham’un, now resident at Baybad, was sadly weakened. Service in the Iraq Levies provided employment for 3,000 to 4,000 Assyrians whose families accompanied them, and whose military prowess under British and Assyrian officers, who were often their own tribal Maliks, was admired. "It is the more unfortunate that stories of a vast Greater Assyria to be achieved by French assistance gained credence and helped to poison Assyrian-Iraqi relations, which the apparent British favour to a foreign and Christian community made anyhow delicate, and which was unassisted by any pretence of Assyrian devotion to Arab and Muslim Iraq. A riot in Mosul in 1923 between Mouslawis and Assyrians was a visible danger-signal; the general Iraqi resentment at the arrival of 800 Assyrian refugees from Turkey by way of Syria was another. The warnings of both King Faysal and Sir Percy Cox on the need for mutual restraint and discipline did not prevent further animosity, and in May 1924 a petty squabble in Kirkuk bazzar led to a murderous stampede of Assyrian Levy troops there, with great loss of Muslim life and a legacy of bitter anti-Assyrian feeling." ..you have to factor in all the details, all sides of a story, if you really want to underastand and, more importantly, really want to prevent. What our nationalists do is try to keep hatred and anger at Arabs and Islam at a fever pitch by fashioning pop-history that has all Muslims guilty as sin and all Christians innocent lambs...usually from a safe distance, so that, outnumbered and outgunned as we always have been, they only ensure further disruption and mayhem for the few remaining Christians in Iraq. Exactly as they are STILL doing. Grown ups take responsibility for their actions...when will we? --------------------- |
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