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Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, A History

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The Armenian genocide of 1915 has been well documented. Much less known is the Turkish genocide of the Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac peoples, which occurred concurrently of their ancient homelands in and around ancient Mesopotamia – now Turkey, Iran and Iraq. The advent of the First World War gave the Young Turks and the Ottoman government the chance to exterminate the Assyrians in a series of massacres and atrocities inflicted on a people whose culture dates back millennia and whose language, Aramaic, used to be spoken by Jesus. Systematic killings, looting, rape, kidnapping and deportations destroyed countless communities and created a vast refugee diaspora. As many as 300,000 Assyro-Chaldean- Syriac people were murdered and a larger number forced into exile. The “Year of the Sword” (Seyfo) in 1915 used to be preceded over millennia by other attacks at the Assyrians and has been mirrored by latest events, not least the abuses committed by Islamic State.
Joseph Yacoub, whose circle of relatives used to be murdered and dispersed, has gathered together a compelling range of eye-witness accounts and reports which cast light in this ‘hidden genocide.’ Passionate and yet authoritative in its research, his book reveals a bit of-known human and cultural tragedy. A century after the Assyrian genocide, the fate of this Christian minority hangs within the balance.

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