With over 90% of the votes in, here are the election results for the Assyrian (Chaldean/Syriac) parties in Iraq. I want you to notice that over 65% of the votes went to two parties. The Two Rivers List, supported by the Assyrian Democratic Movement , got 35.5% and with 30%.7% of the vote, The Assyrian Chaldean Syriac People’s Council which has Kurdish support, got 30.7% of Assyrian votes. [...]
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the Swedish parliament adopted a resolution that recognized the World War I-era killings of 2.75 million Armenians, Assyrians and Pontic Greeks by the Ottomans as genocide. It is estimated that the genocide claimed the lives of 1.5 million Armenians, 750,000 Assyrians (75% of their population) and 500,000 [...] Murder and mayhem has again shown its face against the beleaguered Assyrian Community in Iraq. In anticipation of the fast approaching Iraqi elections to be held on March 7, certain ‘undefined’ peoples within Iraq have escalated the violence against Assyrians, at least eight Assyrian have been killed in the Mosul in the past two [...] The bold city of Fairfield Australia has approved the building of a 4.5-metre-high memorial to victims of the Assyrian genocide. This event is more often referred to as the Armenian Genocide, where Armenians also lost 1.5 million souls, in addition to the murder of over 250,000 Pontic Greeks. One has to remember that this monument [...] |
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