Ishtar TV. com- special /Translation: Atour Michael
On Monday, 21/07/2014, an urgent meeting was held in Ainkawa, which included
the leaders of the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian political organizations, in the Hall
of the Chaldean Culture Society, and according to the press release that came
out by the participants, the issue of the displacement of Mosul Christians was
the basic point in the meeting, in addition to some claims that might create the
mechanisms to protect the Christians in the Christian towns of the Nineveh Plain,
as well as agreeing on the civil society organizations’ call for setting up a
demonstration in Ainkawa, demanding an urgent solution to the suffering of Christians
in Iraq.
The Press Statement
The Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Political
Organizations Assembly held on Monday, 07/21/2014 a meeting at the level of the
leadership of the Assembly hosted by the Chaldean Democratic Forum in the Chaldean
Culture Society in Ainkawa, with the presence of the presidencies and the leaderships
of the political parties and the organizations of the Assembly. The meeting
dealt with the bad current situation the country is going through, and the risks
and difficulties in the political process and the security, after the invasion
of terrorism for the city of Mosul and its penetration in other provinces, resulting
in negative consequences reflected on our people in Mosul, after the terrorist Da’ash
organization (ISIS) displaced and cleared the city of its indigenous population
of the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian people, following it with burning and
destroying of churches and seizing the properties of the displaced, allowing
them to leave the city with just the clothes they wear.
What our people have faced during the
past few days is only one page of a long systematic targeting that started since
2003 and so far, which its basic goal is the displacement and evacuation of the
remainder of this part of the Iraqi people, so as to replace them with
terrorists coming from across the border with their families, in a process of ethnic
cleansing that even those who can justify the presence of this organization cannot
deny it. All Iraqis and Muslim clerics both Sunni and Shiite, and political
organizations and civil society organizations and everyone who belong to this
nation, must clear today their position of this ethnic cleansing process. Condemnation
and denunciation will not be enough anymore. What is needed is action, and those
who agree with such crimes cannot claim revolution upon such unethical actions of
the terrorist organizations. The international community has a moral
duty to protect this part of the Iraqi people and to help them to have decent
life, as well as providing them with emergency aid after the central government
was unable to provide the necessary protection for them.
The meeting also studied all possible
ways to utilize the capabilities to assist the displaced and urged our people to
extend a helping hand to them from shelter to living requirements. We are facing
a plight that is threatening our existence and we must use all efforts in order
to minimize its effects on those who are suffering from it. The participants also
appealed to the Central Government and the Kurdistan Regional Government to carry
out their responsibility in extending a helping hand to those distressed
displaced. The POA also studied the cooperation with civil society
organizations and the Church to organize a media campaign to urge our people to
claim for security and safety of our towns, and to provide services that enable
them to help their refugees’ brothers. The participants called for the
Kurdistan Regional Government to open the door for our people to volunteer to
defend our land and our honor, as in the past we have participated in the
September 1961 revolution and defended our land and we built the Kurdistan
Region, today it is our duty to defend our presence as well. The leadership of
the POA decided to form delegations to meet with the leaders of Kurdistan, in
order to make all efforts to ensure the security of the region and the safety
of our people, and the conferees approved to the request of civil society
organizations to coordinate a mass rally in order to address the current
situation, as they assured on the need for the joint action to deal with these difficult
situations.
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