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Genocide is defined as the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, religious, political, or ethnic group.  The word, from the Greek genos, meaning “race,” “nation,” or “tribe,” and the Latin cide, meaning “killing,” originated from the tragic events in the Middle East during the end of the Ottoman empire from 1910 to 1933, which called for a legal concept to describe the deliberate destruction of large groups.

From 1843 to 1945, the Turks, Kurds, Arabs and Persians committed genocides against the Assyrian nation and other Christian peoples in Asia Minor [Middle East].  These international human rights violations were crimes against humanity and served as examples for future atrocities of this manner against the Jewish people in Europe.  In these genocides, 750,000 indigenous Christian Assyrians living in their ancestral homelands (known today as the republics of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran), including 1½ million Christian Armenians and 300,000 Hellenes were burned, slaughtered, and shot systematically.  Defenseless men, women, children and the elderly all became victims of these genocides.

Assyria, the land of the indigenous Assyrians, was partitioned after World War I by the victorious Allies, and is currently under occupation by Kurds, Turks, Arabs and Persians.

The Assyrians continue to be religiously and ethnically persecuted in the Middle East due to Islamic fundamentalism, Arabization and Kurdification, leading to land expropriations and forced emigration to the West.

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† 1917: Ben S. Benjamin - The Story of a Survivor
† 1916: Urmia, Salmas, and Hakkiari : Fuller Statement by Mr. Paul Shimmon
† 1916: Azerbaijan: Statement by Mr. M. Philips Price, War Correspondent For Various British and American Newspapers on the Caucasian Front
† 1916: Urmia District : Report on the Distribution of Relief, Covering The Period 1st June to 31st December, 1915
† 1916: Second Exodus From Urmia : Narrative of the Wife of the Rev. David Jacob, of Urmia
† 1916: Bohtan: Letter from the Rev. E. W. McDowell, of the Urmia Mission Station
† 1916: Hakkiari: Refugees From Hakkiari: Letter From Surma, the Sister of Mar Shimun, to Mrs. D. S. Margoliouth, of Oxford.
† 1916: Statement by Rev. R. M. Labaree
† 1916: Letter from a missionary written from Urmia in January
† 1915: Letter from Ashur S. Yousouf in Prison
† 1915: First Exodus From Urmi: Narrative of Mr. J. D. Barnard
† 1915: The Second Exodus from Urmia: Letter from Mr. Rugo A. Muller (Treasurer of the American Mission Station at Urmia)
† 1915: Hakkiari: A Letter From a Relative of Mar Shimun, the Patriarch
† 1915: Hakkiari: Refugees from the Hakkiari District: A Series of Extracts From Letters by Members of the American Mission Station at Urmia
† 1915: Hakkiari: Further Statement by Mr. Paul Shimmon
† 1915: Urmia, Salmas and Hakkiari : Statement by Mr. Paul Shimmon
† 1915: The Letter of Rev. E.T. Allen of Urmia, Describing the Massacre at Ismail Agha's Kala
† 1915: Urmia: Extracts From the Annual Report (For the Year 1915) Presented by the Medical Department at Urmia
† 1915: Urmia: Narrative of Dr. Jacob Sargis
† 1915: Urmia: Letter From the Rev. Y. M. Nisan to the Rev. F. N. Heazell
† 1915: Urmia: Letter from Mrs. J. P. Cochran to Friends in the United States
† 1915: Urmia During the Turco-Kurdish Occupation: The Diary of a Missionary
† 1915: Tabriz: Letter From The REV. F. N. Jessup
† 1915: Salmas: Letter of Rev. Labaree to the Presbyterian Missions Board, New York
† 1915: Urmia: Letter of Rev. Labaree to the Presbyterian Missions Board, New York
† 1915: Urmia: Letter from Rev. Labaree to Mr. Speer
† 1915: Letter of Rev. Labaree to His Mother
† 1915: First Exodus From Urmia
† 1915: Urmia : Statement By The Rev. William A. Shedd, D.D., of The American (Presbyterian) Mission Station at Urmia ; Communicated by The Board of Foreign Missions of The Presbyterian Church in The U.S.A.
† 1915: Letter from Mr. Rugo A. Muller (Treasurer of the American Mission Station at Urmia), May 26.
† 1914: Mrs. Suria David - Gulpashan, Urmia.
† 1850-1914: Mereyam Basmajy: A Story of a Great Lady

1947: The Middle East in the Post-War World - National and Religious Minorities: The Assyrians by David Perley, J.S.D.

1943: Whither Christian Missions?  Reflections on the works of a Missionary and On the Assyrian Case by David Perley, J.S.D.

1946: Australian and British Governments on Assyrian Christians - Mr. Garnett to Mr. Strahan.

1946: Australian and British Governments on Assyrian Christians - Reply of Mr. Strahan to Mr. Garnett.

1937: The Assyrians: A Debt of Honour

1935: League of Nations — The Settlement of the Assyrians, a Work of Humanity and Appeasement

1934: ANNEMASSE: The Assyrian Tragedy

1923: Agha Petros and the Lausanne Telegraphs

1915: The Deportation of the Assyrians in Ottoman Documents

† 1831-1937 — Sayfo (Assyrian Genocide, in Arabic)

Assyrian Villages and Monasteries
The Assyrian Statehood: Yesterday’s Denial and Today’s Moral Obligation

Assyrians after Assyria

Assyrian Identity in Ancient Times and Today

Who Are The Assyrians?
The Assyrians in the Christian Asia Minor Holocaust
Holy War Made in Germany: New Light on the Holocaust Against the Christian Assyrians during World War I
Maintenance and Transformation of Ethnic Identity
From Survival to Revival: In the Aftermath of the Assyrian Genocide
Turkey: Author of Genocide - the Destruction of the Assyrian Nation
Assyrians in Turkey: Disappearance of a Culture?

‘Lies in Turkish’: Turkish Denial of Genocide

Assyrians in Turkey: Ethnic and Religious Recognition Revisited

The Assyrian Genocide and Article 312 of the Turkish Penal Code: the case of an Assyrian Priest in Turkey (1)

Negotiating Assyrian Identity in Iraq, 1919-1933

The Assyrian Christians' Dilemma in Iraq: Outlook and Solution

The British Betrayal of the Assyrians (in Arabic)
Shall This Nation Die?

† 1919: The Assyrian Monument in Baquba, Iraq
† 1915: Assyrian War Song

Assyrian History Timeline: 1900's | 1800's
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1935: League of Nations — The Settlement of the Assyrians, a Work of Humanity and Appeasement
Assyrians at the League of Nations (United Nations)
Assyrian National Petition

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1924: Straits Treaty
1923: The Treaty of Lausanne
1921: Trade Agreement Between His Brittanic Majesty's Government and the Government of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic
1920: The Treaty of Sèvres
1919: The King-Crane Commission Report
1919: The King-Crane Commission Report — Confidential Appendix
1919: The Peace Treaty of Versailles
1918: Report on War Guilt by the 'Commission on the Responsibility of the Authors of the War'
1917: Balfour Declaration
1916: The Sykes-Picot Agreement
1915: The Husain-McMahon Letters
1914: Treaty of Alliance between Germany and Turkey
1907: The Anglo-Russian Entente (concerning Persia)
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To know your past, is to know yourself. This flight left some 25,000 Christians in Urmia. All of these sought shelter from massacre. On the other hand, the Kurds were pouring into the plain, urged on and followed by Turkish officers and troops; on the other hand the Moslem villagers set to work robbing and looting, killing men and women and outraging the women. In several places the Christians defended themselves, but the massacring was not confined to these. Villages that deliberately gave up their arms and avoided any conflict suffered as much as those that fought. The mass of the people fled to the city, and all, including the city people, took refuge in the mission compounds. - William A. Shedd  Assyrian Holocaust | History Timeline

Armenian, Assyrian and Hellenic Genocide News

Assyrian History Timeline: 1900's | 1800's (historical documents, letters and articles)

To know your past... is to know yourself.

† 2010-2003 — Assyrians face Persecution and Genocide
† 1933: The Simele Genocide
† 1914-18: World War I - The Ottoman Turks, Kurds, Arabs, and Persians
† 1895: Kurds Attack Urfa
† 1860: Massacres in Lebanon
† 1842: Massacres by Kurdish Chief Badr Khan Bey
† 1840-1860: The Khilafah Massacres
† 1829: Kurdish Leader Rwandez attacks Alqush
† 1578: Kurdish Attack on Urmi
† 1369-1400: The Massacres of Timurlane & The Escape to Hakkari
† 1361: The Martyrdom of Mar Gregorius Bit Qinaya
† 1324: The Attack on Qaraqosh
† 1310: The Capture of Arbela
† 1297: The Capture of Amedia
† 1295: The Destruction of Churches by the Mongols
† 1289: The Attack of the Kurds
† 1285: The Arab & Kurdish Attack on Arbela
† 1268: Antioch Seized by the Sultan of Egypt
† 1261: The Coming of the Kurds
† 1258: Hulaku Khan Slaughters the Assyrians of Tikreet
† 1231: The Martyrdom of Mar Denosios bar Saliba II
† 987: The Destruction of Mart Maryam Church at Baghdad
† 852: The Persecution of Assyrians Under Caliph Mutawakkil
† 873: The Martyrdom of Hunayn Bar Iskhaq
† 884: The Attack on the Monastery of Dakil Ishu
† 737: The Persecution of Christians in Halab
† 762: The Islamic Caliphate Moves to Baghdad
7th Century: The Message of Prophet Mohammed
† 661: The Persecution of Christians by Ummayad Caliph Muawiyyah
† 686: Caliph Abd al-Malik Imprisons and Tortures the Patriarch
† 650: The Massacre of Monks at Ra's Ayn
† 615-628: The Massacres by Khusraw Parviz
† 519: Jewish Persecution of Christians in Yemen Continues
† 519: King Yusuf As'ar of Yemen Begins a Brutal Massacre of the Assyrians
† 448: The Massacre of Kirkuk
† 339: The Persecution Under King Shapur
† 107: Parthian king Xosroes Murders Second Bishop of Arbela