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Assyrian Farmers Killed in Syria

  The inhabitants of the town of Dereek are Assyrians and Kurds (majority Kurdish since Assyrians have been leaving the area). The Assyrian farmers were carrying 25 million liras (approximately $US 500,000) when they were killed in a brutal fashion. The money was not taken by the killers, rather left …

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Churches Bombed in Iraq

  According to Reuters, the first blast occurred outside an Armenian church in the Karrada district of Baghdad. The second blast happened about 15 minutes later outside an Assyrian church in the same area. “We were in the Mass and suddenly we heard a big boom, and I couldn’t feel …

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Assyrian Democratic Organization?s Presentation

?The symposium was attended by a wide spectrum of political forces in the Governorate, a number of intellectuals, writers and independents, as well as members of various communist party sections.? Below is the?ADO?s interposition, delivered by Gabriel Moshe Gurieh, a member of the ADO?s Political Bureau. Ladies and Gentlemen On …

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ADO Banned from Celebrating its Anniversary

The agency, SANA, said the amnesty offer covers offenses like theft, forgery, military desertion and other white-collar crimes committed before Thursday. No details were provided on how many people could be cleared under the amnesty, but the number is expected to reach thousands. Saturday marks the fourth anniversary of the …

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Massacre in Baghdad

The family who are well known Assyrian Christians had been threatened. While the family was out terrorists entered and shot the two Children at point blank range. `We are doing our best to get out to the world the simple message that the Assyrian Christians who are the indigenous people …

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Massacre in Baghdad

The family who are well known Assyrian Christians had been threatened. While the family was out terrorists entered and shot the two Children at point blank range. `We are doing our best to get out to the world the simple message that the Assyrian Christians who are the indigenous people …

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GfbV: Letter to turkish foreig minister and minister of interior

G?ttingen, 24th June 2004 Dear Minister,in the course of the recent reforms of the government the living conditions of the Assyrian-aramean Christians in the Tur Abdin haveimproved considerable. They enjoy New-Aramean as language of instruction at school and more and more families of Assyrian-aramean origin are returning to their ancestral …

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