Crime of the Century

If the International Community, headed by the United Nations and led by the United States, had not saved Kuwait from the Iraqi invasion of the early ‘90s, the Kuwaitis, too, would have lost their sovereignty and national identity and become a diminished minority amongst the 14 million Iraqis. Obscuring the Assyrians as ‘a minority’ of no significance maintains a deplorable crime. The Assyrians are not an inconsequential minority; they are a small-dispossessed nation. By design, to suit their policy, French and British Colonial Powers partitioned the Assyrian Nation, and separated its people by newly drawn political boundaries.

They drew a cross over Assyria and partitioned it into four parts. The Mandates, after looting its historical treasures, expelled the Assyrians from their homeland and gave it away to Assyria’s four adversaries: (Urmia) to Iran; (Hakkari) to Turkey; (Vilayet Mosul – Arbil and Kirkuk being part of the Vilayet) to Iraq, and (Hasicha-Khabur) to Syria. After the Armistice of 11th November 1918, the Mandates sided with Turkey and the Arabs against their smallest Ally. Assyria declared war on Turkey, on 10th May 1915, through Tsar Nicholas the Second of Russia. In appreciation of Assyria’s war effort and service with the Allies, the Mandates handed the Assyrians back to their enemies. They were shackled and condemned to servitude under the heavy yoke of the Shari’ah Rule of Islam, unable to free themselves until this very day. That was the reward for their loyalty to Papacy’s British and French traditional armed forces.

They decimated a nation that for over six millennia was held together by common bond of race, demography, kinship, heritage, language and religion. Fragmentation of the Assyrian people is a harsh reality and they continue to suffer as a result of the selfishness and greed of Dar Al-Silm states, the international community and establishers of the so-called new world order of Roman Catholicism, the Vatican claiming Vicegerency. (E. J. Mar-Emmanuel, Bishop; 2008: p 182).

The Assyrians fell victim to foul play. The British deserted them and left them at the mercy of the sword of the Islamic Jihad. Perley describes the British betrayal of the Assyrians that culminated in their massacre in early August 1933:

“But the position which the British Government has placed itself today in Iraq is as intolerable as it is unparalleled. British advisers, whose advice is not asked; a British Military Mission forced to be silent spectators of foul deeds, four squadrons of the British Air Force, whose intervention has been confined of recent months to dropping leaflets on the Assyrians telling them to surrender. They did so, and were massacred a day or two later in cold blood.” (Perley: p 22)

For ulterior motives, the British failed to acknowledge the real situation of the Assyrian people. Assyria, as any other Turkish Province, under the Ottoman Rule of Islam, was supposed to have been freed towards gradual attainment of complete independence. The desire of the Assyrians, since the First and Second World Wars, was to live an independent life, free from Islamic rule, in their own designated region. The West dashed Assyria’s hope for independence from the Islamic domineering rulers. To add insult to injury, the colonial powers, headed by Britain, incessantly demanded that the Assyrians be classified as a minority, under the “Islamic Millet Rule”, not a Nation. Britain supported a policy of assimilation, each in its own respective Islamic state, rather than declare an autonomous Assyrian region.

The League of Nations, under constant pressure, agreed not to consider the Assyrians a separate people and declined to classify them as internally displaced refugees. The League stopped humanitarian aid. It dismantled all relief camps and left the Assyrians to provide for themselves. The Assyrians lost their whole regional territory to neo-Islamic colonialism. The so-called Western allies robbed the Assyrians of their homeland, quashed their aspiration for a rightful place in world society as an independent state and delivered them to their traditional enemies. They are still in servitude.

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