North Iraq (AINA) — Turkish jets bombed the Assyrian village of Upper Sharanish in north Iraq on the 16th, under the pretext of targeting Kurdish PKK fighters who had entered the village. Weiterlesen
We, the undersigned organizations, have received information from locals and community leaders in north-east Syria informing us of systematic human rights violations directed against vulnerable communities. Weiterlesen
Brussels (AINA) — Assyrian Federations of Europe are continuing their joint efforts to lobby the European Union on behalf of Assyrians of Iraq. Weiterlesen
Syria (AINA) — The Assyrian group known as Dawronoye (Revolutionaries) and their branch in Syria, which goes under the name of Syriac Union Party, stand accused of name-stealing. Weiterlesen
Tel Abyaḍ, Syria (AINA) — recently in the town of Tel Abyaḍ, where there is a small Christian community, the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS: al-Qa’ida) desecrated the local church. Weiterlesen
(AINA) — The Society for Endagered People, one of Europe’s largest human rights organizations, honored Mrs. Janet Abraham for long-standing and extraordinary human rights activism at its recent annual plenary session, held in mid October in Göttingen, Germany. Weiterlesen
(AINA) — The Assyrian Human Rights Network (AHRN) held its first annual general meeting on Saturday, October 19 in the Assyrian Cultural Centre in Södertälje, near Stockholm. Weiterlesen
(AINA) — The Assyrian American National Coalition (AANC) has launched a petition against an American military strike in Syria. Citing the disastrous consequences for the Assyrians (also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs) of Iraq since 2003, who have been subjected to a low-grade genocide and whose population has dropped from 1.4 million to 400,000, AANC calls on the U.S. Government to consider the effects of regime change on Assyrians and other Christians in Syria, given that the rebels are mostly Jihadists and hostile to Christians. Weiterlesen
In einer Woche wird ein Denkmal eingeweiht, welches sich innerhalb der Stadtmauern der Altstadt von Diyarbakir (Omid) befinden wird. Der Initiator ist Bürgermeister Abdullah Demirbas. Das Problem bei diesem Denkmal ist allerdings, dass die Täter auch neben den Opfern genannt werden.
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Anfang Juli versammelten sich einige Assyrer aus unterschiedlichen Ländern, um an einem Workshop in Holland zur Assyrischen Musik teilzunehmen. In diesem Workshop, welches die Innana Foundation aus den Niederlanden veranstaltete, wurden die wichtigsten Probleme aber auch Herausforderungen der assyrischen Musik diskutiert.
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