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The Assyrian town of Alqosh where a massacre was planned on its population. On 18 August 1933, Iraqi troops entered Mosul, where they were given an enthusiastic reception by its Muslim inhabitants. Triumphant arches were erected and decorated with melons pierced with daggers, symbolising the heads of murdered Assyrians. [51]
The Iraqis attempted to encircle the Assyrians from the north side but were forced to retreat after they were met with rifle fire from an Assyrian platoon under the command of Rayis Warda of Halmon. The Assyrians armed only with rifles counterattacked and inflicted very heavy casualties on the Iraqis. [ 9 ]
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.
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.
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.
From 1933 until 1954 the family lived in Cyprus and later moved to England, until 1960. In 1960 the family immigrated to the United States , settling in San Francisco until his death in 1974. In 1920 several dispatches were signed by Winston Churchill, In 1925, Dawid was promoted to the rank of Rab Khaila (Commander/Force Leader) for the ...
In the mid-2000s, attorneys won a pair of legal settlements for $37.5 million in the names of Armenian genocide victims. But families who stepped forward to collect on behalf of ancestors in one ...
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 .