The Assyrian Democratic Organization
The majority of the members of this committee are Shiite moslems whose number in Iraq, particularly in southern Iraq, makes up 60 percent of the 22 million Iraqi population.
The Assyrian Delegation was given a 3 percent representation of the total number of attendees to the Conference. Consequently, of the 265 participants the Assyrian Delegation comprised of 8 members. They are as follows (in alphabetical order):
1. Mr. Nimrud Baito (Assyrian Patriotic Party)
2. Mr. Sargon Dadisho (Assyrian National Congress)
3. Mr. Praydon Darmo (Member, Assyrian Universal Alliance)
4. Mr. Romeo Hakkari (Assyrian Democratic Party –Iraq)
5. Mr. Younan Adam Hozaya (Central Comm. Member, ADM)
6. Mr. Emanoel Kamber (Independent)
7. Mr. Yonadam Kanna (Sec. Gen, Assyrian Democratic Movement)
8. Mr. Albert Yalda (Independent)
The other two Assyrian participants, associated with the Assyrian Delegation, were:
1. Shimun Khamo (Sec. General, Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party – U.S.A.)
2. Dr. Jacob Mansur (Fmr. President, Assyrian Chaldean Federation of America)
There were also five other Assyrian participants at the Conference, two of whom were present as independents and the remaining three representing Mr. Massud Barazani’s Kurdish Democratic Party. They were:
1. Abdul Ahad Afram (KDP)
2. Ms. Josephine Esho (Independent)
3. Mr. Yousif Hanna (KDP)
4. Mr. Fawzi Frasu Hariri (KDP)
5. Mr. George Mansur (Independent)
The 265 Conference participants are expected to attend another meeting on 15 January 2003 in Arbil, North Iraq.
Delegates to the conference agreed on a list of 49 current Iraqi regime officials – including Saddam and his two sons – who should face trial for war crimes.
