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  2. Simele massacre - Wikipedia

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    His followers planned to resign from the Assyrian Levies and to re-group as a militia and concentrate in the north, creating a de facto Assyrian enclave. [24] In spring 1933, Malik Yaqo, a former Levies officer, was engaged in a propaganda campaign on behalf of Assyrian Patriarch Shimun XXI Eshai (or Mar Shimun), trying to persuade Assyrians ...

  3. Sayfo - Wikipedia

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    Jilu Assyrians crossing the Asadabad Pass towards Baqubah, 1918. The Sayfo (Syriac: ܣܲܝܦܵܐ, lit. ' sword '), also known as the Seyfo or the Assyrian genocide, was the mass murder and deportation of Assyrian/Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan province by Ottoman forces and some Kurdish tribes during World War I.

  4. Assyrians in Iraq - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in August 1933 Iraqi soldiers and Kurdish militia killed thousands of Assyrias in Simele (Iraq). The massacre had a big influence on Raphael Lemkin, the jurist who coined the word "genocide. [19] The Simmele Massacre is also commemorated yearly with the official Assyrian Martyrs Day on 7 August.

  5. Category:Assyrian genocide - Wikipedia

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    Seyfo — the mass slaughter of the Assyrian population of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring Qajar Persia by the Ottomans during the 1890s and the First World War. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.

  6. Bakr Sidqi - Wikipedia

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    He lectured in the military school and achieved the rank of colonel in 1928 and brigadier general in 1933. In August 1933, Sidqi ordered the Royal Iraqi Army to march to the north to crush so-called 'militant Assyrian separatists' in Simele , near Mosul , which led to 3,000 Assyrian civilians being killed in the region in the Simele massacre .

  7. 30 Color Photos Photographers Took 100 Years Ago That Still ...

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    Image credits: Photoglob Zürich "The product name Kodachrome resurfaced in the 1930s with a three-color chromogenic process, a variant that we still use today," Osterman continues.

  8. The Last Assyrians - Wikipedia

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    In 1915, together with the Armenians and Greeks, they were the victims of ethnically and religiously motivated genocide [1] perpetrated by the Turkish Ottoman Empire and many fled to Europe, the Russian Empire and the United States. Again, they were slaughtered in Iraq in 1933 in the Simele massacre. Even if various names are used to describe ...

  9. Cambodia Outraged After Vice Publishes Manipulated Photos of ...

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    Loughrey claimed to have colorized images taken at Tuol Sleng (S-21) prison in Phnom Penh to humanize the 14,000 Cambodians tortured and killed there under the tyrannical leadership of Pol Pot ...