Ishtar TV. com / Majid Aziza - Canada / Translation: Atour Michael
The Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council /Canada Branch participated in the
conference called by the Rev. Majed El-Shafei, head of the (One Free World) Organization
for Human Rights, on Saturday 25th of October
in the city of Ajax east of Toronto. The conference was attended by the representatives
of associations, institutions and parties that represent the oppressed minorities
in their own countries, including the Iraqi Christians and Yezidis, Pakistanis Christians,
Armenians, Ukrainians and Chinese Christians, as well as other immigrants who
left their home countries because of persecution and are living in Canada.
Mr. Madloum Marouki represented the Council along with a number of PC members, and
he talked about the suffering of the Iraqi Christians who fled from Mosul and
villages in the Nineveh Plain to the Kurdistan Region areas, because of the persecution
they are exposed to by gangs of so-called Islamic State (Daesh), and he
demanded the Canadian government to increase its support and assistance to them.
The conference was attended by Mr. Christopher Alexander, Minister of Canadian Immigration
and a number of activists in the field of human rights in addition to a number
of workers in Canadian immigration organizations.
Mr. Majid Al-Shafei stressed on the need to work together as a one Canadian family
of multiple cultures, languages and races, and he said “We must live
in peace and make the world live in peace”.
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