The Assyrian Democratic Organization
The final official figures for the province, obtained by IPS from a U.S. official in Mosul, actually have the constitution being rejected by a fairly wide margin, but less than the two-thirds majority required to defeat it outright. Both the initial figures and the new vote totals raise serious questions …
Read More »Rosie Malek-Yonan?s Schedule of The Crimson Field Book Tour
20 October 2005 By AssyriaTimes Staff WriterThe Crimson Field, Rosie Malek-Yonan?s historical Novel of the Assyrian massacre of 1914-1918 has stirred tremendous interest among the Assyrians and non-Assyrians since it was published less than two months ago.Rosie Malek-Yonan continues her tour of the book and is being called back to …
Read More »POLITICS-IRAQ: Vote Figures for Crucial Province Don’t Add Up
The final official figures for the province, obtained by IPS from a U.S. official in Mosul, actually have the constitution being rejected by a fairly wide margin, but less than the two-thirds majority required to defeat it outright. Both the initial figures and the new vote totals raise serious questions …
Read More »Assyrian students unite
HUDSON HOU/daily bruin Paul Benjamin receives various responses from people when he tells them of his ethnicity. Along with other Assyrian students, Benjamin helped put together the Assyrian Students Association to help spread the word about their heritage. By Lindsey MorganDAILY BRUIN CONTRIBUTORlmorgan@media.ucla.eduWhen he tells people he is Assyrian, …
Read More »?GENOCIDE? ALLEGATION FROM ASSYRIANS, CHALDEANS
Some 10,000 Assyrian-Chaldeans live in Paris. The monument is near a similar to the so-called Armenian genocide. Francois Pupponi, the socialist mayor of Paris? Sarcelles district, said in a dedication speech that the monument was meant to show deep sympathy for the Assyrian-Chaldean people who died 1915. He also added …
Read More »TURKEY DECRIES NEW MONUMENT IN FRANCE
Turquie-France : les Assyro-Chald?ens et les trous de la m?moire fran?aise
Le samedi 15 octobre, au stade Nelson Mandela, rue Paul Langevin ? Sarcelles (banlieue de Paris), a en effet ?t? inaugur?e en toute discr?tion une st?le “? la m?moire des victimes du g?nocide assyro-chald?en de 1915 perp?tr? sous l?Empire ottoman”. Cette inauguration a eu lieu en pr?sence de Fran?ois Pupponi, …
Read More »Obituary: Ghazi Kanaan
Ghazi Kanaan was appointed interior minister in a major cabinet reshuffle in October 2004. Before joining the government, he was head of Syrian intelligence in Lebanon. The 63-year-old brigadier-general was born in the coastal governorate of Lattakia in 1942. He graduated from military college in 1965 and rose …
Read More »Syrian ‘suicide’ sparks theories
Kanaan (r) had a long and intimate connection with Lebanon By Roger Hardy BBC Middle East analyst The official Syrian News Agency announced Ghazi Kanaan’s suicide without attempting to explain it. It said cryptically that the authorities were carrying out the necessary investigation. But, given Mr Kanaan’s long and …
Read More »Syrian minister’s last interview
Interview with Syrian Interior Minister Major General Ghazi Kanaan given to Voice of Lebanon correspondent Warda Zamel on 12 October, hours before he was found dead in his office, having apparently committed suicide. Presenter: Syrian Interior Minister Maj-Gen Ghazi Kanaan, in this cloudy climate that prevails over the two fraternal …
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