Sonne-2012
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[h=1]Assyrian Genocide[/h]The Assyrians are the indigenous people of Mesopotamia (present day Iraq and northern Syria). Prior to 1915 Assyrians lived in the territories of south-eastern Anatolia, between the Tigris and Euphrates River.
The Assyrians formed part of the Christian population of the Ottoman Turkish Empire and like the Armenians and Greeks were subjected to genocide between1915 and1924.
As witnessed by ANZAC prisoners-of-war during World War One, all the indigenous Christian Assyrian, Armenian and Hellenic peoples of Anatolia were subjected to deportations and massacres.
Across the empire and far beyond as the Ottoman Turkish armies invaded the Caspian Sea and north-west Iran, this genocidal persecutions lead to the deaths of as many as 750,000 innocent Assyrian men, women and children.
http://www.armeniangenocide.com.au/assyriangenocide
The Assyrians formed part of the Christian population of the Ottoman Turkish Empire and like the Armenians and Greeks were subjected to genocide between1915 and1924.
As witnessed by ANZAC prisoners-of-war during World War One, all the indigenous Christian Assyrian, Armenian and Hellenic peoples of Anatolia were subjected to deportations and massacres.
Across the empire and far beyond as the Ottoman Turkish armies invaded the Caspian Sea and north-west Iran, this genocidal persecutions lead to the deaths of as many as 750,000 innocent Assyrian men, women and children.
http://www.armeniangenocide.com.au/assyriangenocide