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Not many know the British interacted with Assyrians as far back as the 18th century. The Assyrians served in the Levies & formed an important military force during the Mandate of Mesopotamia & WWII. Sadly, the British betrayed their promises. Iraq could have been Christian.

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“These are dark times, my son.” The hidden Christian Genocide the British let happen in 1933. A British general named R.S Stafford described its brutality: “A cold-blooded and methodical massacre of all the men in the village… as foul a crime as any in the bloodstained annals of the Middle East." Assyrians lost half their population to the Turks & Kurds between 1915-1924. They were split across four countries & betrayed by the British who they fought alongside during WW1. They naively trusted their Christian brothers. The newly formed Iraqi State, as it sought to mould its nationhood by blood, painted Assyrians as a Colonial Fifth Column. After an intense & lengthy propaganda campaign, an Iraqi general of Kurdish origin lead the genocide after the genocide. Assyrians in the Dohuk Region, already butchered by Ottomans & Kurds, were systematically targeted by Iraqi forces. The Simele massacre was far smaller in scale to Seyfo, but had a greater psychological impact. It fragmented church communities who began distancing themselves from the Assyrian cause, lest they fall to the sword. Patriarchs retreated into their communities & saw a unified Assyrian Christian cause as a liability - one that would get them killed. Stafford was an eyewitness to the events surrounding Simele & wrote a book titled “The Tragedy of The Assyrians”. He went to Alqosh on August 21 of 1933 & found Assyrians “utterly-panic stricken”. "In this unspeakable atmosphere there lived for six days, one thousand terrified women and children who had seen all their male relations killed before their eyes." Simele broke the spirit of the Assyrians, which was somehow still intact after losing half their population in the Ottoman Genocide. It sealed their fate into insular church communities who kept their heads down to survive. Just like the Iraq War in 2003 & ISIS in 2014, two catastrophes within 20 years. Two genocides in 20 years. 1915 to 1933. Iraq still does not recognize the massacre.

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The next time you hear "Assyrian Christian", I want you to wrap your head around how old this nation is. Today Assyrians celebrate Kha b'Nisan, the Assyrian New Year, marking 6776 years of existence. The First of April, or Nisan in Aramaic, is derived from the Akkadian word Nisanu. It translates into "beginning" or "first". And that is no coincidence. Assyrians are the indigenous people of Mesopotamia. Many, from Kurds to Arabs, deny this reality. They divide them by Church. They call them Arab Christians. They call them Kurdish Christians. Yet they are older than Aramaic! They are older than every tourist which occupies their land. Older than the Bible. Older than the Jews. Assyrian culture existed for thousands of years before Moses. Abraham himself came from Mesopotamia! The Assyrian New Year festival is traced back to ancient tradition. People think of Assyrians today as ancient Christians. It's true, but the history is deeper. When Jewish families celebrate Passover, they are observing a calendar inherited from Mesopotamia. By the culture & civilization where "it" began. Every empire that ruled Mesopotamia — Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab, Mongol, Ottoman — tried to write Assyrians out of history. AND THEY ARE STILL TRYING. (You'll see what I mean in the comments!). Yet April 1 is a reminder. They are dwindled in number & weakened today. But they EXIST. Existence is not a given. It's getting harder & less probable. They are holding on to their culture by every last breath. As much as EVERY force of evil tries to wipe their legacy away. ܫܢܬܐ ܛܒܬܐ — Happy New Year

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