ANA-ASHUR

ASSYRIA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

STATEMENT

As a result of the current critical conditions which are passing over our country Iraq as well as our Assyrian nation and as a result of the abnormal deterioration taking place within our political institutions because of the fluctuation in thought and the reckless irresponsible policies on the part of some of our political parties and movements, in the midst of this situation, parties, movements, organizations and some figures have manipulated and are manipulating the fate of Assyria (Ashur) and Assyrianism either by relinquishing our national identity or manipulating our venerate Assyrian name with its deep roots in our beloved North of Iraq, which is geographically, historically and culturally the land of Ashur (Assyria) in order to dispossess the Assyrians of its ownership allowing the outsiders to misrepresent and distort its historical and geographical realities, renaming it with a foreign name which has no relevance to the land and its history.

What concerns us as Assyrians in the homeland and Diaspora, politicians and independents is the outcome of the covert and public discussions which are aimed at dividing the Assyrian homeland and re-assigning new ownership of each part of it to the competing or rather conflicting factions. Factions that have gained power when they were persecuted in the near past just like the Assyrians! In the midst of this situation, these factions and specially the Kurds have completely forgotten the Assyrians, the owners of most of this land which the Kurds have usurped, ignoring the presence of the Assyrians in the motherland Assyria, North of Iraq, by occupying and naming the land with their racist Kurdish name which encompasses the sources of the Tigris to the Euphrates Khabor.

The Assyrian who is still discussing his national name because there’s an intent to keep him unstable nationally, the Assyrian who is still discussing and presenting arguments regarding the nature and name of the Assyrian language because there’s an intent to let him relinquish his belief in the Assyrian cultural existence, and the Assyrian who is still accepting for himself, his people and his homeland sectarian and denominational names which are far from the scientific historical truth, because he is not allowed to repudiate the opinion of his patron. How can such a person be depended upon to solve the great Assyrian dilemmas beginning with the dilemma of the national, cultural, linguistic, patriotic, geographical and religious existence and then to move to the issues of civil, citizenship, administrative, denominational and sectarian rights?

This is our situation today in the Iraqi political equation. O Assyrians, all your physical, material, and psychological sacrifices as well as the suffering, exile, humiliation, displacement and dispersion resulted in a handful of individuals ascending to seats in temporary governments and parliaments – short lived – and under the patronage and guardianship of others.

To every Assyrian who is zealous for his Assyrianism and homeland.
To every Iraqi who is protective of the unity of Iraq’s land and people.

Taking into consideration the historical and geographical facts of the North of Iraq known as the land of Ashur (Assyria), we in the Assyria National Assembly being a political assembly linking the Assyrian national and political Cause with its land Ashur, we declare to and inform the people of Ashur (Assyria), Iraq, the neighboring regional countries and the international public opinion that the North of Iraq, the land of Ashur (Assyria) is under Kurdish occupation, renamed with their ethnic name which they have imposed on the inhabitants of our beloved North of Iraq employing chauvinistic, racist methods taking advantage and strength from those who are powerful in a devastated country using illegal constitutional articles which are drawing a new map for Iraq. Hence as per these facts we shall identify the North of Iraq as the occupied land of Ashur (Assyria).
Thus we appeal to all the daughters/sons of Ashur and every one to use the term occupied land of Ashur to identify the North of our homeland Iraq.

Long live a united Iraq from Zakho to al-Fao.
Long live the Iraqi people. Long live the Assyrian people in their cherished land Ashur.

Assyria National Assembly
Political Bureau
October 04th, 6756 Assyrian/ 2006 A.D.

 

 

 

 

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