Assyrian Federation in Germany and European Sections Zentralverbandder Assyrischen Vereinigungen in Deutschland und Europäischen Sektionen e.V. (ZAVD) Postfach 11 23 05 ; D – 86048 Augsburg / Deutschland
Stellungnahme des Zentralverband der assyrischen Vereinigungen in Deutschland und europäische Sektionen zu den jüngsten Attentaten im Irak
Am Freitag, den 12.11.2010, finden in ganz Deutschland Mahnwachen, anlässlich des Bombenattentats auf die christlichen Assyrer (auch Chaldäer und Syrer genannt) in der Sayidat al-Najat- Kirche in Bagdad / Irak, statt.
Bei diesem gezielten Angriff am 31.10.2010 brachten islamische Terroristen mehr als 120 christliche Geiseln in ihre Gewalt. Bei dem Versuch, die Geiseln zu befreien, zündeten die Terroristen Sprengstoffgürtel. Hierbei wurden über 52 Menschen getötet und über 70 lebensgefährlich verletzt.
Die der islamischen Al Kaida Organisation angehörenden Terroristen haben weitere Attentate auf die christlichen Assyrer im Irak angekündigt.
Seit dem Kriegsausbruch im Jahre 2003 wurden Anschläge auf über 60 christliche Kirchen verübt. Von den 1,5 Millionen Assyrern musste über die Hälfte ihre irakische Heimat verlassen. Unzählige Assyrer wurden bereits ermordet, enteignet und heimatlos gemacht.
Der Vorsitzende des Zentralverbands der Assyrer, Shlemon Yonan spricht bei den Angriffen auf die christlichen Assyrer von einem Völkermord, die das Ziel haben, den Irak christenfrei zu machen. Der Ausrottung der Christen muss ein Ende gesetzt werden! Daher lasst uns alle gemeinsam unsere Stimme gegen die Ausrottung der Christen im Irak erheben!
Die Mahnwachen am Freitag, den 12. November 2010, finden statt in:
Augsburg, Königsplatz Beginn 15:00 Uhr Kontakt 01733909919
Gütersloh, Berlinerplatz Beginn 15:00 Uhr Kontakt 017610051422
Gießen, Seltersweg (Einkaufspassage) Beginn 16:00 Uhr Kontakt 017676792197
Heilbronn, vor der Kilianskirche Beginn 16:00 Uhr Kontakt 017661514784
Wiesbaden, Schloßplatz/Dernsches Gelände Beginn 17:00 Uhr Kontakt 01705556444
Veranstalter: Zentralverband der assyrischen Vereinigungen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und europäische Sektionen e.V. (ZAVD) Assyrian Democratic Movement – Deutsche Sektion (ZOWAA) Assyrische Demokratische Organisation (ADO) - Sektion Europa Assyrian Universal Alliance Germany Chapter Seyfo Center - Sektion Deutschland Assyria Council of Europe (ACE) Chaldäer-Syrer-Assyrer Volksrat – Sektion Europa Syrisch-orthodoxe Kirche Syrisch-katholische Kirche
Vorsitzender: Herr Shlemon Yonan Frankenstr. 7, 10781 Berlin
Vorsitzender: Herr Johann Roumee Wilhelm Lehmann Str.35 33332 Gütersloh
Last edited on 11/15/2010 at 09:28 AM (UTC3 Assyria)
Men hold up pictures of Iraqi Christian priests killed in an attack in Baghdad, during a demonstration in support of Iraq's Christian minority in Brussels, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010. The priests were killed Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010 when gunmen stormed a church during mass and took the entire congregation hostage. The attack, claimed by an al-Qaida-linked organization, was the deadliest recorded against Iraq's Christians since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion unleashed a wave of violence against them. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
BRUSSELS -- Several thousand people from across Europe gathered in Brussels Saturday to protest a recent escalation of violence against Christians in Iraq.
"We want our voice to be heard by the European community," said Suleyman Gultekin of the European Syriac Union, which organized the march. "We are attacked systematically" in Iraq. Syriac Christians have lived in the Middle East for centuries and now make up a small minority in countries like Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Turkey.
The demonstration follows a string of violent attacks against the Christian community in Iraq, which has already dwindled from 1.5 million to about 400,000 over the past decade.
Gunmen stormed a Sunday Mass service in Baghdad on Oct. 31, killing 68 people -- including two priests -- and injuring many others. On Wednesday, five people were killed and 20 wounded in more than a dozen bombings and mortar attacks targeting Christian families in the Iraqi capital.
"Since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, the Iraqi government was not able to protect us," Gultekin told The Associated Press. "So, our conclusion is that we need an autonomy in the north of Iraq to protect our people and to be in a safe and secure place."
Police estimated that about 4,000 people marched in the demonstration in pouring rain, although organizers said there were many more.
They carried pictures of the two priests killed in the attack on the church and chanted slogans condemning violence against Christians in French, English and Arabic.
Kamil Aho, a 30-year old Syrian, traveled to Brussels by bus from Paderborn, in northwestern Germany. "We are shouting so that everyone in the world can hear" what has been happening, he said.
The march, led by a group of Syriac priests, culminated in a rally in front of the headquarters of the European Commission, the European Union's executive.
"Right now everybody is afraid," said Father Noel Al Castoma, a Syriac priest who fled Iraq in 2004 and now lives in the Netherlands.
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.
