He Plight of the Assyrians

 The Assyrians of the Middle East have had more than their fair share of being oppressed. Throughout history they have been second class citizens in their own land. Events culminate with the 1915 Seyfo in which they were massacred and driven out of their villages in Ottoman Turkey and forced to flee to Nirthern Iran and Nirthern Iraq. The oppression did not end their.

To this day it continues. The Assyrians are trying to set up an autonomous zone on the Nineveh plain and it has traditionally been inhabited mostly by Assyrians. The plans were to give them an autonomous zone. Yet there are forces in the way that are preventing this. One would think that with US troops stationed there things would go easier for the Assyrians. In fact it has been the opposite.

The Kurds under the KRG and KDP are trying to leach the Assyrians away from their land and make it part of their Kurdistan. To weaken the Assyrian political position the Kurds are supporting different parties that go with their agenda. They are also using religion to divide the Assyrian nation. Some Assyrians call themselves Chaldeans, Syrian Othodox, etc.

The Kurds are also using terror tactics to take the land. They are using terror tactics to force the Assyrians away. These include false arrests by Kurdish police. Breaking into houses and killing and raping people.  These terror tactics are forcing Assyrians out of their ancestral lands.

The Kurds may have helped ISIS come to power. Once ISIS came to power the Kurdish peshmerga hardly ever defended the Assyrians. Yet the Kurds are an Israeli and American ally. The Kurds pretend that they are being nice to Assyrians but they are not. The Assyrians once again are being sold out. Their only solution is their own land or an autonomous zone under their control with their own defense force.