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ASSYRIANS CALL ON KURDISH REGIONAL GOVERNMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE GENOCIDE
11:17, August 8, 2013
American Mesopotamian Organization and The Iraqi Christian Relief
Council challenge the Kurdish Regional Government to issue a formal
apology to the Assyrian and Armenian descendants of the survivors of
the genocides committed by the Kurdish allies of the Ottoman Turks
against the indigenous Christian populations of the region, during
and subsequent to WWI.
In a letter addressed to Masoud Barazani, President of the Kurdish
Regional Government (KRG) and in commemoration of Assyrian Martyr's
Day of August 7, Assyrians around the world demand the KRG, in northern
Iraq, to formally and officially acknowledge and recognize the genocide
of the indigenous Assyrians and Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman
Turks, and their allies from Kurdish tribes and warlords during and
after First World War.
In December 2007, the International Association of Genocide Scholars
(IAGS), recognized both the Assyrian and Greek genocides (in addition
to its 1997 recognition of the Armenian Genocide), announcing the
following: "It is the conviction of the International Association
of Genocide Scholars that the Ottoman campaign against Christian
minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted genocide
against Armenians, Assyrian and Pontic and Anatolian Greeks".
KRG is urged to give the same recognition to Assyrians it desires to
receive from western governments, pertaining to the issue of "Kurdish
genocide" at the hands of Saddam's regime.
American Mesopotamian Organization is a Grassroots/Political Action
Committee founded to influence and guide US policy on matters of
interest to the Assyrian American community.
Iraqi Christian Relief Organization was founded mainly to raise
awareness among the American public about the religious and ethnic
cleansing being inflicted on Christians of Iraq.
Photo: Assyrian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan
http://hetq.am/eng/news/28599/assyrians-call-on-kurdish-regional-government-to-acknowledge-genocide.html
From: Baghdasarian
11:17, August 8, 2013
American Mesopotamian Organization and The Iraqi Christian Relief
Council challenge the Kurdish Regional Government to issue a formal
apology to the Assyrian and Armenian descendants of the survivors of
the genocides committed by the Kurdish allies of the Ottoman Turks
against the indigenous Christian populations of the region, during
and subsequent to WWI.
In a letter addressed to Masoud Barazani, President of the Kurdish
Regional Government (KRG) and in commemoration of Assyrian Martyr's
Day of August 7, Assyrians around the world demand the KRG, in northern
Iraq, to formally and officially acknowledge and recognize the genocide
of the indigenous Assyrians and Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman
Turks, and their allies from Kurdish tribes and warlords during and
after First World War.
In December 2007, the International Association of Genocide Scholars
(IAGS), recognized both the Assyrian and Greek genocides (in addition
to its 1997 recognition of the Armenian Genocide), announcing the
following: "It is the conviction of the International Association
of Genocide Scholars that the Ottoman campaign against Christian
minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted genocide
against Armenians, Assyrian and Pontic and Anatolian Greeks".
KRG is urged to give the same recognition to Assyrians it desires to
receive from western governments, pertaining to the issue of "Kurdish
genocide" at the hands of Saddam's regime.
American Mesopotamian Organization is a Grassroots/Political Action
Committee founded to influence and guide US policy on matters of
interest to the Assyrian American community.
Iraqi Christian Relief Organization was founded mainly to raise
awareness among the American public about the religious and ethnic
cleansing being inflicted on Christians of Iraq.
Photo: Assyrian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan
http://hetq.am/eng/news/28599/assyrians-call-on-kurdish-regional-government-to-acknowledge-genocide.html
From: Baghdasarian