Assyrian Democratic Organization ADO
Dear President Bush, I just read that you had expressed disappointment with what is happening in Iraq and confusion as to why the Iraqi Government and Iraqi people are not `getting with the plan`. I am an Assyrian Christian, the original people of Iraq, the people of Nineveh to whom …
Read More »Murdered Assyrians in Iraq in August
August 8, 2006BaghdadA week ago, Bassam Shimun Hakim (33), was kidnapped from in front of his large liquor shop in Baghdad. The kidnappers demanded a ransom for his safe release. They were paid $30,000 in cash in addition to a BMW worth $10,000 that was parked besides the business address …
Read More »Half of all Christians have fled Iraq since 2003, says Baghdad bishop
By Simon CaldwellCatholic News Service LONDON (CNS) — Half of all Iraqi Christians have fled their country since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, said the auxiliary bishop of Baghdad. Chaldean Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Andreos Abouna of Baghdad said that before the invasion there were about 1.2 million Christians in the predominantly …
Read More »Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament; Let them Rape and Kill Christian Women.
July 31, 06 William Warda According to Baqof.com; National Organization for Civil Society and Iraqis Rights issued a statement regarding the interview with Dr. Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, the speaker and head of the Iraqi National Assembly (parliament) on al-Iraqiyya Sat. On 31 January 2006, al-Iraqiya Satellite Television broadcasted a film …
Read More »The End of Christianity in Iraq
The news from Iraq has been especially grim of late. Daily it seems violent death is everywhere in the form of car bombings at mosques and other public facilities, ethnic cleansing carried out by militias roving about the streets seeking victims, even soldiers and police doubling as sectarian enforcers. The …
Read More »Mr. Yonadam Kanna survives assasination attempt
Reports from our contacts in Baghdad say that there was an unsuccessful assasination attempt on Rabi Yonadam Kanna, leader of the Assyrian Democratic Movement (ZOWAA) on 6 May 2006 at approx 12 noon.We believe a roadside device was triggered and a vehicle behind Rabi Yonadam was blown up. Rabi Yonadam …
Read More »Assyrians Face Escalating Abuses in “New Iraq”
Lisa Söderlindh UNITED NATIONS, May 3 (IPS) – The longstanding persecution of ethnic minorities in Iraq is quietly writing the end chapter to Iraqi Assyrian history: if the world doesn’t wake up to the plight of this people, they will soon be shoved through the door of extinction, warn patrons …
Read More »An Assyrian Administrative Unit: Ending the Exodus of Iraq’s Most Vulnerable
The January 29th, 2006 bombing of six churches throughout Kirkuk and Baghdad marks an undeniable trend. The message is intended for two audiences. The international community (mainly the multinational forces in Iraq) constitutes one target audience. The other is Iraq’s Christian Assyrian1 community. The latter live close enough to insurgents, …
Read More »Attentats contre des églises à Bagdad et Kirkouk
Le 29 janvier 2006 Presse Canadienne Des voitures piégées ont explosé dans un court intervalle de temps dimanche devant au moins quatre églises de Bagdad et de Kirkouk, dans le nord de l’Irak, tuant au moins trois Irakiens et en blessant neuf, selon la police. Le colonel Birhan Taha a …
Read More »Bombs Target Four Iraqi Churches; 3 Dead
AP – January 29, 2006 Car bombs exploded in a synchronized spree of attacks outside at least four churches in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk within a shortperiod, killing at least three Iraqis and wounding nine, police said.Col. Birhan Taha said that three civilians were killed and one …
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