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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 [...] Google recently announced that is will make available online,14,000 images of artifacts within the Iraqi Nation Museum which officially reopened in February 2009. [...] The Turkish government has now focused on preventing the construction of a proposed Assyrian genocide monument in Fairfield, Australia. The proposed monument would honor the Assyrian victims of genocide in the 20th century, particularly the Turkish genocide of Assyrians in World War One, in which 750,000 (75%) Assyrians were killed between 1915 and 1918, as well as Armenians and Greeks, and the massacre of 3000 Assyrians in Simmele, Iraq in August, [...] |
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