Posted on 11/05/2019 5:05:22 AM PST by Cronos
...Lost in the turbulent tangles of the news is another one of Turkey’s victims, a population of Christians who are a distinct ethnic group that has been historically targeted by the Ottoman Empire. The Assyrians were slaughtered alongside the Greeks and Armenians in the genocide of 1915 and then again in 1933 during the Simele Massacre, at the hands of Arab-Iraqi nationalists. Their persecution continued throughout the century, foisting upon them a life of transience and displacement. Today, the diaspora population is larger than the population of Assyrians in their homeland, which is parts of northern Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran.
Syria’s Christians and Yazidis fear that with Turkey’s move into the region, they will be targeted and ethnically cleansed, a reasonable prediction given Turkey’s history of genocide of minorities. On Wednesday, Turkey began its attacks in Qamishli, a town inhabited by Kurds and the descendants of Assyrian refugees of the 1915 genocide. ...
Assyrians in northeast Syria, however, feel overlooked in the coverage and dialogue surrounding the matter. Ethnic and religious minorities in the region are frequently not considered in geopolitical decision making, an omission with dire consequences that have lasted generations. ..
Today, Assyrians have no proper burial site for the victims of the 1933 Simele Massacre in Iraq, because the relatives of the deceased are prohibited from creating one. Instead, their bones can be seen protruding through the ground, scattered in formations of mass graves. Even in unjust, violent death, the Assyrians are not afforded a memorial. Their erasure from history books and the land they inhabit is purposeful.
..In Defense of Christians, a Washington-based non-profit that serves the historic Christian communities of the Middle East through advocacy, released a statement urging the White House reinstate sanctions on Turkey should it target Christians or Yazidis.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.us ...
I guess the “cops” aren’t answering the phone any more.
I guess Europe doesn’t care. Send your article to them.
Prayers and thank you for posting,
Reading history, the Kurds slaughtered as many if not more of the Assyrians...
True.
Well it’s not allowed to make Islam extinct, so them there Christians are going to continue suffering while living in the devil’s playground.
“Europe” is a group of 40 countries - including parts of Russia :-P
Christian refugees are welcomed by Poland and Slovakia, and many Christian families are sponsored by Caritas.
The Christians in general prefer to stay home as they are protected by Assad
What Muslims do to Christians, Democrats will do to us.
In his book “Innocents Abroad,” 1869, which established his reputation as a writer, Mark Twain described Syria under the Ottoman Turkish Empire: Five thousand Christians … were massacred in Damascus in 1861 by the Muslim Turks.. Narrow streets ran blood for several days, and that men, women and children were butchered indiscriminately and left to rot by hundreds all through the Christian quarter … the stench was dreadful.
All the Christians who could get away fled from the city, and the Mohammedans would not defile their hands by burying the ‘infidel dogs.’ The thirst for blood extended to the high lands of Hermon and Anti-Lebanon, and in a short time twenty-five thousand more Christians were massacred..
Mark Twain described Jerusalem under Ottoman Muslim rule: “Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of Moslem rule. ….
The Plague of Islam.. Islam is a disease,
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