Appeal for a ChaldoAssyrian Safe Haven in Iraq

Other forms of pressure and threats include pressure to sell lands, the coercion of woman to wear veils, and the abduction of women for marriage against their will. The continuing onslaught against the vulnerable ChaldoAssyrian civilian population is perpetrated with the specific intent of terrorizing the indigenous Christian population into leaving their homes.




We, the under-signed, hereby recommend that the Iraqi government and international community urgently:

-assist ChaldoAssyrians in providing security for all ChaldoAssyrian churches, institutions, towns, and villages throughout Iraq

-establish an interim Safe Haven in the Nineveh Plain to be maintained and enforced by ChaldoAssyrians in order to protect and preserve the historic lands of the ChaldoAssyrian people and to serve as a sanctuary for threatened and internally displaced ChaldoAssyrians

-implement Article 53 d of the Transitional administrative Law (TAL) and establish an administrative area for ChaldoAssyrians in the Nineveh Plain

Following the first Gulf War, the international community established a Safe Haven in northern Iraq to protect civilians from attacks by the regime of Saddam Hussein. Today, the attacks against ChaldoAssyrians are even more ominous and threatening. With reports of tens of thousands of ChaldoAssyrians leaving Iraq, there now exists the real possibility of the extinction of the indigenous ChaldoAssyrian people in Iraq for the first time in their 6700 year continuous existence. The final litmus test for the Iraqi government’s and the international community’s genuine commitment to pluralism and democracy remains the preservation of the indigenous ChaldoAssyrian people of Iraq.






Assyrian Democratic Organization – Europe – Sweden – USA & Canada

Assyrian Institute – Europe

Assyrian Federation – Europe

Tur Abdin Federation – Holland

Assyrian Academic Society

World Maronite Union USA

American Maronite Union USA

World Lebanese Organization (WLO) Canada

The American Coptic Association USA

The Middle East Christian Committee USA

US Copts