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Date Posted: 17:22:45 12/15/03 Mon
Author: Mr. YC Liew
Subject: Re: HELP THE CHRISTIAN ASSYRIAN BEFORE IT'S TO LATE
In reply to: George Suryoyo 's message, "HELP THE CHRISTIAN ASSYRIAN BEFORE IT'S TO LATE" on 15:24:09 04/12/03 Sat

I would like to help how can I help you.

Rgds,
Liew



>As evident in the news, only Kurds have been mentioned
>and there has been no mention of any Assyrians who are
>the true indigenous people of that land and we must
>let the world know that Assyrians must be mentioned in
>any media coverage of Iraq. This will ensure our
>continuity and our struggle as we strive to achieve
>Freedom from the tyranny brought against our people in
>our own homeland by the years and years of
>persecution, marginalization and oppression by the
>Islamic Regims in the middle east.
>
>Assyrian Christians are the indigenous people of Iraq,
>our history in that region spans 6000 years. Assyrians
>speak the Aramaic language, the language of our
>saviour Jesus Christ and indeed Assyrians were the
>first nation to accept Christianity in the first
>century A.D.
>
>During the First World War, Assyrians allied with the
>British against the Ottoman Turks and as a consequence
>lost over half our population as well as our ancestral
>homelands.
>Hundreds if not thousands of books, pictures,
>documentaries and films have documented the holocaust
>of millions of Jews in "Dritten Reich" (The Third
>Empire) to continue reminding future generations of
>this tragedy. However the first genocide of the 20th
>century has completely been shunned into oblivion,
>remaining on the backbench of history. The issue here
>is the genocide of more than 2 million Christians in
>the Ottoman Empire - a historical fact that has been
>denied up until the present day. During World War I
>certain massacres were committed on the Christian
>peoples living within the Ottoman Empire. Massacres
>that set out to decimate the entire Christian
>population. Massacres that can only be referred to as
>genocide. Behind the shadows of the Great War the
>Assyrian-Syriac and Armenian people who inhabited the
>eastern region of Mesopotamia and Anatolia became
>victims of organised destruction executed by the Young
>Turk regime and some feudal Kurdish landlords.
>
>There are approximately 1.5 million Assyrian
>Christians in Iraq today. Assyrian people have endured
>35 years of systematic oppression, persecution and
>summary executions due to our distinct race and
>Christian beliefs and if we don't get part of Iraq
>which belongs to us the systematic oppression,
>persecution and killing of christian will go on until
>all the christians are gone.
>
>The Iraqi census in 1977 forced Assyrians to register
>as either Arabs or Kurds, this was in line with the
>regimes policy of forced Arabisation of the Assyrians
>in an attempt to eliminate our identity.
>
>Under Saddam’s regime, over two hundred Assyrian
>villages and countless ancient Assyrian Churches and
>Monasteries were razed to the ground, Churches and
>Monasteries, which had remained intact for over 1,600
>years. The inhabitants of these villages were either
>killed or displaced. Non-Assyrians now inhabit these
>ancient Assyrian villages and we fear that they may
>have been lost forever.
>
>Assyrians are forbidden to teach the Assyrian Aramaic
>language and are not permitted to christen our
>children with Assyrian Christian names.
>
>Due to the barbaric policy of Saddam’s evil regime,
>over one million Assyrians, 25% of our total number
>worldwide, have fled Iraq over the last 30 years.
>
>I cry for my people and our history. We will once
>again be massacred by the muslim and the rest of the
>world will once again just let it happen. PLEASE HELP
>THE CHRISTIANS OF MIDDLE EAST AND IRAQ BEFORE IT'S TO
>LATE AGAIN!!!!
>
>GOD BLESS/Robert Saliba

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