A ceremony to lay the foundation stone for a Simele massacre memorial was overshadowed by controversial remarks from a Kurdish official and reports of imminent KRG plans to grab Assyrian land in the nearby village of Bakhtme.
In a recent interview with Assyria TV, Belgian Member of Parliament Sam van Rooy spoke at length about Christianity in Europe, immigration, and the situation of Assyrians in the Assyrian homeland.
Christmas has increasingly become a politicized holiday across Assyria, as a range of state and non-state actors seek to instrumentalize the Christian holiday to project an image of tolerance, score legitimacy points, or discredit rivals.
Murad Ismael, newly elected as the first independent Yazidi MP in Iraq, is calling for formal recognition of Yazidis as a distinct ethnicity, challenging Kurdish efforts to label the community “Yazidi-Kurds.”
Assyrians in Iraq continue to face the occupation of their lands and properties, according to the latest report from the Hammurabi Human Rights Organization.
Assyrian-American activist Sam Darmo insists his visit to Northern Iraq will bring tangible benefits to the Assyrian people. Yet critics argue that the true beneficiaries are not the oppressed, but their oppressors.
