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RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION AND ETHNIC GENOCIDE OF ASSYRIANS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
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Friday, February 10, 2012 at 10:01 PM in Nineveh, Assyria
Genocide is defined as the deliberate and systematic destruction of
a racial, religious, political, or ethnic group. The word, from the
Greek genos, meaning "race," "nation," or "tribe," and the Latin cide,
meaning "killing," originated from the tragic events in the Middle
East during the end of the Ottoman empire from 1910 to 1933, which
called for a legal concept to describe the deliberate destruction of
large groups.
Holocaust is defined as the deliberate and systematic destruction by
fire of a racial, religious, political, or ethnic group. The word
derives from the Greek holos, meaning "whole" and kaustos, meaning
"burnt".
>From 1843 to 1945, the Turks, Kurds, Arabs and Persians committed
genocides against the Assyrian nation and other Christian peoples in
Asia Minor [Middle East]. These international human rights violations
were crimes against humanity and served as examples for future
atrocities of this manner against the Jewish people in Europe. In
these genocides, 750,000 indigenous Christian Assyrians living in
their ancestral homelands (known today as the republics of Turkey,
Syria, Iraq, and Iran), including 1½ million Christian Armenians and
300,000 Hellenes were burned, slaughtered, and shot systematically.
Defenseless men, women, children and the elderly all became victims
of these genocides.
Assyria, the land of the indigenous Assyrians, was partitioned after
World War I by the victorious Allies, and is currently under occupation
by Kurds, Turks, Arabs and Persians.
The Assyrians are a stateless people and continue to be religiously and
ethnically persecuted in the Middle East due to Islamic fundamentalism,
Arabization and Kurdification policies, leading to land expropriations
and forced emigration to the West.
http://www.atour.com/holocaust/
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 10:01 PM in Nineveh, Assyria
Genocide is defined as the deliberate and systematic destruction of
a racial, religious, political, or ethnic group. The word, from the
Greek genos, meaning "race," "nation," or "tribe," and the Latin cide,
meaning "killing," originated from the tragic events in the Middle
East during the end of the Ottoman empire from 1910 to 1933, which
called for a legal concept to describe the deliberate destruction of
large groups.
Holocaust is defined as the deliberate and systematic destruction by
fire of a racial, religious, political, or ethnic group. The word
derives from the Greek holos, meaning "whole" and kaustos, meaning
"burnt".
>From 1843 to 1945, the Turks, Kurds, Arabs and Persians committed
genocides against the Assyrian nation and other Christian peoples in
Asia Minor [Middle East]. These international human rights violations
were crimes against humanity and served as examples for future
atrocities of this manner against the Jewish people in Europe. In
these genocides, 750,000 indigenous Christian Assyrians living in
their ancestral homelands (known today as the republics of Turkey,
Syria, Iraq, and Iran), including 1½ million Christian Armenians and
300,000 Hellenes were burned, slaughtered, and shot systematically.
Defenseless men, women, children and the elderly all became victims
of these genocides.
Assyria, the land of the indigenous Assyrians, was partitioned after
World War I by the victorious Allies, and is currently under occupation
by Kurds, Turks, Arabs and Persians.
The Assyrians are a stateless people and continue to be religiously and
ethnically persecuted in the Middle East due to Islamic fundamentalism,
Arabization and Kurdification policies, leading to land expropriations
and forced emigration to the West.