The presentation entitled ?The Plight of the ChaldoAssyrian Christian Community in <\/SPAN> ? The presentation entitled ?The Plight of the ChaldoAssyrian Christian Community in Iraq? was co-hosted by the Assyrian Democratic Movement and the Jubilee Campaign. The main speakers were Mr John Michael of the Assyrian Democratic Movement, Miss Shamiran Mako of Human Rights Without Frontiers, Professor Eden Naby of the Assyrian Academic Society and last but …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-assyrian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The event was chaired by a man who is championing the cause of the ChaldoAssyrians, a man that calls for the establishment of a ChaldoAssyrian administrative region within a federal <\/SPAN>
It was perhaps fitting that before Mr Pound proceeded to relay his opening speech, he asked Rev. Yalda to recite a short prayer in Syriac. By meeting today we not only raised the issue in the British Parliament but also sent a strong signal of support and solidarity to this persecuted minority said Mr Pound. He recounted the atrocities perpetrated past and present against a beleaguered nation in an exhilarating speech delivered with a true sense of purpose to an audience that included the Rt Hon Donald Andersen MP, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
The following text is the closing segment of Mr Pound?s speech.
I, as an individual and on behalf of so many of my colleagues urge our Government to particularly move in three directions. This, I would like to say will be contentious and there are some who will not agree but what little I know about the situation, leads me to believe that there has to be an autonomous administrative region as a safe haven, such as could be guaranteed, and in fact does feature in the Transitional Administrative Law under article 53D.
An autonomous region to include ChaldoAssyrian ancestral towns and villages located near <\/SPAN>
We must also financially support the reconstitution of ChaldoAssyrian villages and infrastructure. We ask this Government to provide across the board political support against the active and passive ethnic cleansing which ChaldoAssyrians are being subjected to because of their distinct ethnicity as the only indigenous people of <\/SPAN>
If there is to be, and I pray to God there is, a reconstruction in <\/SPAN>
Ladies and Gentlemen, the fate of the ChaldoAssyrians in <\/SPAN>
History is replete with massacres and other crimes perpetrated against a nation scorned. Scorned for what? Scorned for its faith, scorned for its ethnicity, scorned for the very being, scorned not for any aggression, not for any duplicity, not for any political reasons [but] because of what they hold true to in their hearts.
A self determined enclave is fundamental to the survival of the ChaldoAssyrians and frankly the benchmark by which the forces of liberation, particularly the <\/SPAN>
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I would simply end by saying that the British have always turned to the ChaldoAssyrian community for support and assistance. There has never been a time when that community has said no to <\/SPAN>
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