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Arrest and trial of Youhana Yalda Khaie

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Arrest and trial of Youhana Yalda Khaie

Aug-27-2001 at 08:00 PM (UTC+3 Nineveh, Assyria)

AINA has of recent started yet another campaign besed on its very particular interpretation of matters. Allow me to share with you the opposing statement of yesterday by the Kurdistan Democratic Party, that has been so strongly attacked by AINA.
Alexander Sternberg

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KURDISTAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY (KDP)
International Relations Bureau

A STATEMENT ON THE ARREST OF A MEMBER OF THE
ASSYRO-CHALDEAN COMMUNITY IN IRAQI KURDISTAN

27 August 2001

Misleading and malicious statements pertaining to the arrest of Youkhana Yalda Khaie, a member of the Assyro-Chaldean community in Iraqi Kurdistan, have recently appeared in certain media outlets.

On 8 April 2001, Youkhana Yalda Khaie, along with two other persons were arrested under Iraqi criminal law, article 168, for aiding and abetting PKK terrorists including supplying military related equipment.

Mr. Khaie is regularly visited in detention by his relatives and representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

Mr. Khaie's collaboration with the PKK is well established. He is formally charged with aiding and abetting an illegal terrorist organization. His detention has been extended according to the law. On 23 July 2001, the Public Prosecutor referred his case to the Dohuk Criminal Court. His trial date is set for 2 September 2001.

Interested persons may attend the trial. An independent inquiry by Amnesty International and other accredited human rights organizations is welcomed to assess and verify the circumstances under which Mr. Khaie is charged and being tried, and the treatment he has been receiving while in detention.

Statements in the media by some exile Assyrians claiming that Mr. Khaie was arrested to take over his land or to prevent him from raising funds to built a church, and that he is being victimized for being a Christian are untrue, baseless and malicious. These and other similar statements alleging Muslim-Christian enmity is an attempt to cause communal discord.

The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) endeavour to apply the rule of law to all citizens of Iraqi Kurdistan regardless of their ethnic origins or religion.

The KDP and the KRG reaffirm their commitment to the promotion of friendship and mutual respect among all communities in Iraqi Kurdistan. During the past decade, substantial progress has been made in supporting the development of a society where national, cultural and civil rights, pluralism, and religious freedom are promoted and protected by the law throughout the region.

KDP Spokesperson


P.O.Box 7725, London SW1 3ZE-UK
Tel: 020 7498 2664 Fax: 020 7498 2531 E-mail: kdpeurope@aol.com

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Aug-28-2001 at 02:21 PM (UTC+3 Nineveh, Assyria)

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Thanks for posting the KDP release.

International perception of Kurds are generally sympathetic with their struggle as evidenced by a recent rebuttal effort towards the AINA news release. The editorial was written by a young political science graduate student who has chosen the Kurds as the basis of her future thesis.

To better understand that volatile region and the perspectives of the indigenous Assyrians, we need to enlighten students, politicians and others with the previous promises and assurances from the superpowers of the past (and still the "Vicors of today"). Incidently, these abandoned promises are a near exact copy which were also simultaneously given to the Kurds.

As Christian Assyrians living in the midst of Arab nationalism and Kurdish civil wars, our people have continued to live in uncertainty and endure the various onslaughts.

The vantage point of former UN & U.S. soldiers stationed in present day Northern Iraq, including other human rights groups, further solidifies the position of AINA.

A better understanding of the history of the indigeous Assyrians, recognizing their nationality and ways to improve their existance are noble objectives.


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Assyria \ã-'sir-é-ä\ n (1998)   1:  an ancient empire of Ashur   2:  a democratic state in Bet-Nahren, Assyria (northern Iraq, northwestern Iran, southeastern Turkey and eastern Syria.)   3:  a democratic state that fosters the social and political rights to all of its inhabitants irrespective of their religion, race, or gender   4:  a democratic state that believes in the freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture in faithfulness to the principles of the United Nations Charter — Atour synonym

Ethnicity, Religion, Language
» Israeli, Jewish, Hebrew
» Assyrian, Christian, Aramaic
» Saudi Arabian, Muslim, Arabic
Assyrian \ã-'sir-é-an\ adj or n (1998)   1:  descendants of the ancient empire of Ashur   2:  the Assyrians, although representing but one single nation as the direct heirs of the ancient Assyrian Empire, are now doctrinally divided, inter sese, into five principle ecclesiastically designated religious sects with their corresponding hierarchies and distinct church governments, namely, Church of the East, Chaldean, Maronite, Syriac Orthodox and Syriac Catholic.  These formal divisions had their origin in the 5th century of the Christian Era.  No one can coherently understand the Assyrians as a whole until he can distinguish that which is religion or church from that which is nation -- a matter which is particularly difficult for the people from the western world to understand; for in the East, by force of circumstances beyond their control, religion has been made, from time immemorial, virtually into a criterion of nationality.   3:  the Assyrians have been referred to as Aramaean, Aramaye, Ashuraya, Ashureen, Ashuri, Ashuroyo, Assyrio-Chaldean, Aturaya, Chaldean, Chaldo, ChaldoAssyrian, ChaldoAssyrio, Jacobite, Kaldany, Kaldu, Kasdu, Malabar, Maronite, Maronaya, Nestorian, Nestornaye, Oromoye, Suraya, Syriac, Syrian, Syriani, Suryoye, Suryoyo and Telkeffee. — Assyrianism verb

Aramaic \ar-é-'máik\ n (1998)   1:  a Semitic language which became the lingua franca of the Middle East during the ancient Assyrian empire.   2:  has been referred to as Neo-Aramaic, Neo-Syriac, Classical Syriac, Syriac, Suryoyo, Swadaya and Turoyo.

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