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Anf. 10 Utrikesminister CARL BILDT (m): Fru talman! Hans Linde har fr?gat mig om Sverige avser att verka f?r att Turkiet helt ska ?ppna de ottomanska arkiven f?r internationell oberoende forskning; f?r avkriminalisering i Turkiet av all publicering, debatt och diskussion om folkmordet; f?r att Sverige och EU ska kr?va …
Read More »Turkey, Assyrian Mass Graves and the Three Monkeys
Stockholm — Approximately two months ago a mass grave with remains after murdered Assyrians was found outside the village of Dara in south-eastern Turkey. The remains are from some of the Assyrians that were murdered by the Turkish military and by local Kurdish clans during the genocide against the Assyrians …
Read More »New Target for Islamists in Iraq: Assyrian University Students
Mosul, Iraq (AINA) — An unidentified Islamic group placed flyers at the Student Union at Mosul University, the flyers contained messages directed at Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) students and were placed in areas where Assyrian students congregate. Witnesses report that University security men observed the men placing …
Read More »Kein Abrei?en des Fl?chtlingsstroms aus dem Irak
BAGDAD/K?NIGSTEIN, 7. Dezember 2006 (ZENIT.org).- Die Auswanderung aus dem Irak h?lt unvermindert an. Nach Sch?tzungen des Fl?chtlingskommissariats der Vereinten Nationen (UNHCR) haben aufgrund der Gewalt zwischen den Bev?lkerungsgruppen inzwischen 1,8 Millionen Iraker ihr Land verlassen; in Syrien halten sich demnach mindestens 600.000 Iraker auf. Die Zahl der Binnenfl?chtlinge, also jener …
Read More »Eustathius Matta Roham Archbishop of Jazirah and Euphrates Syrian Orthodox AIDS Day
? MY FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH HIV-POSITIVE PEOPLE Archbishop Matta Roham? Syrian- Hassaka– ?In connection with World AIDS Day on December 1st, I would like to share my experience and thoughts on HIV as many other religious leaders do. We all have to make sure that we, who fortunately live in …
Read More »Sadr Followers Target Assyrian School Girls in Baghdad
Baghdad (AINA) — Followers of Moqtada al-Sadr have issued a fatwa1 concerning school girls, according to an Assyrian priest in Baghdad. The fatwa requires all girls to wear the veil while attending school. In an unusual twist of logic, the fatwa implies that failure to wear the veil would be …
Read More »Assyrian Delegation At the European Parliament
Brussels (AINA) — On initiative of the Assyrian magazine Funoyo a meeting took place in the EU-Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday, November 29th, 2006. At the invitation of Mechthild Rothe (SPD, Social Democratic Party Germany) an official assembly had been appointed, at which other Members of the European Parliament took …
Read More »Britain, Iraq and the Assyrians: The Nine Demands
When Britain ‘s mandate of Iraq was to end in November 1932, the Assyrians were concerned about their minority status in the future independent Iraqi State. The Assyrians were hoping that Britain would support the establishment of an enclave for them in the north that would give them autonomy in …
Read More »Dutch EP Member Opens Inquiry Into Assassination of Assyrian Leader in Iraq
Last week Mr. Isoh Majeed Hedaya, President of the Assyrian organisation “Syriac Independant Unified Movement (SIUM),” was brutally gunned down in the Kurdish dominated part of Iraq (AINA 11-27-2006). After leaving his office in Baghdeda, masked gunmen riddled his body with bullets. Mr. Hedaya gave his life trying to unite …
Read More »ADO: Letter of Condolence the deceased martyr Isouh Majid Hadaia’s
Dear Brothers in the Independent Syriac Assembly Family members of the deceased martyr Isouh Majid Hadaia’s Syrian- ADO– With great sorrow and shock we have received the news of Mr.Isouh Majid Hadaia’s heinous and cowardly assassination on he hands of forces of evil and darkness who aimed at destroying the …
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