Updated: Oppression and Murder
of the Assyrians in Iraq
Complied by Fred Aprim
During the last 18 months, violence
and cold blood murder of the Christian Assyrians has happened
almost on daily basis due to the rise of Islamic militants and
the Kurdish nationalism.
Following is a list of some of such oppressions and murders.
This only shows the reported incidents by the news media. One
has to realize that not all acts of violence and murders are
reported to the media or have been brought to our attention.
* December 9, 2004 (Baghdad) Few days
ago, two Assyrian Christians were kidnapped from their business
place and then murdered by unidentified terrorist group. The
two Christians owned a hall used for celebrations in Baghdad.
The first victim is Fawzi Soorish Luqa of 'Ankawa (b. 1961).
However, his partner's name is not been disclosed yet.
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2399
* December 8, 2004 (Ramadi) Dr. Ra'aad
Augustine Qoryaqos, one of the notable Assyrians of Bartella,
was murdered in Ramadi. A group of three terrorists stormed his
clinic while he was checking on his patients. They shot him and
left him bleed. An operation later failed to save his life. Dr.
Qoryaqos leaves behind his wife and two children. Dr. Qoryaqos
worked as a professor at the College of Medicine in al-Anbar
University and was a successful surgeon.
http://www.bartella.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1831
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2397
* December 7, 2004 (Mosul) Two churches,
Al-Tahira, Chaldean Catholic Church, and one of the most beautiful
churches in Mosul and another Armenian church that was under
construction, were bombed in Mosul today. The first blast struck
the al-Ttahira (meaning the pure, in reference to the Virgin
Mary) Church about 2:30 p.m. in al-Shifa' neighborhood, eastern
Mosul. Ten armed men stormed the church, planted explosives throughout
it, and set the bombs off wounding three people and destroying
most parts of it. An hour later, gunmen bombed in al-Wahda neighborhood,
western Mosul, an Armenian church under construction. No casualties
were reported there.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,140751,00.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&e=4&u=/nm/20041207/wl_nm/iraq
http://www.peyamner.com
* December 2, 2004 (Mosul) few days
ago, Imad Jameel Younan (born 1975), married with two children,
was confronted with criminals who murdered him and stole his
private taxi. Younan was a resident of the Assyrian town of Baghdeda.
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2325
* December 2, 2004 (Mosul) The body
of Laith Antar Khanno (29 years) of Baghdeda was found near Mosul
Hospital in the al-Wahda quarters, east of Mosul. Khanno was
kidnapped two weeks ago and the kidnappers asked first for a
ransom of $1,000,000 then dropped the figure to $100,000; however,
his family could not come up with this large amount of money
to rescue Khanno. Khanno had worked for a foreign company in
Baghdad and had traveled to Mosul to open a branch there. His
body was found first and the head was found later at a distance.
Khanno was married three years ago and had one daughter.
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2329
* November 30, 2004 (Salah al-Din) Sabih
Mousa Abada (born 1949), married with five boys and three girls,
was killed when a car bomb exploded on a side road in Baiji.
Abada worked as a driver at Baiji refinery. He had stopped to
assist a stalled school bus. Abada was a resident of the of Baghdeda.
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2325
* November 21, 2004 (Mosul) Sami Esho
Khoshaba, aged 19, and a member of the Assyrian Democratic Movement
(ADM), was a cadre in the al-Karkh Branch in Baghdad. He was
shot and killed in Mosul, whilst on leave.
* November 21, 2004 (Baghdad) Essarhadon
Elia al-Qas Oraham (born 1977) was killed near al-Mashriq Club
in Camp Sara quarters around 8:00 p.m. Sunday night. The two
killers attempted to steal his Ford car, which he used privately
and sometimes as a taxi, however, he resisted and they shot him.
He leaves behind a wife and a 2-years-young girl.
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2256
* November 19, 2004 (Mosul) A mortar
shell killed two Assyrian brothers of the town ofBartella. Muntadir
As'aad Matti and Bashar As'aad Matti were killed while at work
when the bomb fell on the shop they worked at in Mosul market.
http://www.bartella.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1669&sid=be7b477051b949af465606ea30fda461
* November 8, 2004 (Baghdad) Two bombs
exploded outside two churches in southern Baghdad quarters of
Dora. Three people were dead and around 40 to 50 injured. The
news was reported in the afternoon by CBS, ABC, and by FOX NEWS
at 3:05 with Brit Hume during his segment Special Report. Read
also http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2154
The first bomb went off near the Mar Giwargis (St. George) Church,
the U.S. military said. Witnesses reported that 18 people were
slightly injured in the explosion. The second car bomb detonated
minutes later, less than a mile away, outside the St. Matthew
Church, killing three people and wounding 34, said a policeman
on the scene who declined to give his name. Also reported by
Daily Times, Reuters (NY), Los Angeles Times, and
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2004/n11082004_2004110811.html
* November 4, 2004 (Falluja) Dr. Nadia
Hanna Murqos was killed near Falluja while returning from Syria.
Her husband and son were injured in the attack on their car.
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2123
* November 2, 2004 (Baghdad) An unidentified
group surprised and fired upon an Assyrian family in Dora, Meekanik
quarters, south of Baghdad. 'Alaa' Andrawis (b. 1965), his wife
Evelyn Malkizdaq, and their 10-years old son were shot at while
in their car. Andrawis and his son were killed instantly, meanwhile,
the mother her head was badly wounded. She was transferred to
a hospital where she is undergoing surgery. 'Alaa' Andrawis and
Evelyn Malkizdaq had three children; the oldest is 12 years old.
Fifteen days earlier, Andrawis's cousin, Yasmin Boodagh, and
her daughter were killed in Dora by a bombed car. Additionally,
beginning of this month, Sargon, son of the Assyrian poet andwriter
Odisho Malko, was kidnapped in Dora. The family had to give the
kidnappers their private car and a certain amount of money as
ransom to secure Sargon's release.
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2102
* October 30, 2004 (Mosul) Ma'an Yousuf,
an Assyrian male, was confronted by three men (two masked and
one unmasked). Yousuf was killed in his electrical supplies shop
in Dawasa street in Mosul at 7:30 p.m. when the unmasked attacker
shot him with three bullets in his head and the three escaped
in their car.
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2078
* October 25, 2004 (Mosul) Four unidentified
armed men tried to force themselves inside the home of Nasrin
Shaba Murad, an Assyrian Christian woman, in the quarters of
17 July in Mosul. When Nasrin Shaba Murad, a housewife aged 42,
tried to escape to her neighbor's home, the gunmen opened fire
and killed her. Nasrin is a mother of three children. Her body
was transferred to Sinjar where she was buried.
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2019
* October 21, 2004 (Mosul) Mr. Yonadam
Kanna, one of the ChaldoAssyrian representatives in the Iraqi
National Assembly, exposed the unfair and chauvinistic acts against
the minorities in Mosul, including the Christians, who live under
harsh circumstances. In his interview with al-Hayat on October
21, 2004, Mr. Kanna exposed the unfair actions by the Mosul Municipal
Office, which is selling lands that belongs to minorities and
rent them to others. He asked the Iraqi government to lift infringes
and oppression against the Christians, Shabak, and Yezidis due
to the ethnic and religious injustice inflicted on these groups
by past subsequent Iraqi governments.
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=1975
* October 21, 2004 (Baghdad) Layla Elias
Kakka Essa (aged 30s) lived peacefully in Baghdad. Economical
hardship forced her to seek employment as an instant translator
in the Assyrian quarters of Dora region in Baghdad to support
her two very young children, Manar and Mina. She was killed in
cold blood on Thursday October 21 while on her way back home
after completing her tenth day of employment. The killer mercilessly
emptied his bullets in her head.
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2029
* October 20, 2004 (Mosul) The 18th
Session of the Iraqi National Assembly addressed the escalating
troubles in Mosul. Mr. Yonadam Kanna stated to the al-Sabah al-Jadeed
(The New Morning) that what is happening in Mosul is alien to
Iraqis. Many families have been slaughtered and killed. Additionally,
Mosul University imposes strange and unreasonable customs on
the students. Meanwhile, hundreds of families have abandoned
the city of Mosul and moved to Dohuk and other neighboring towns.
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=1969
* October 16, 2004 (Baghdad) In an apparently
coordinated strike against Iraq's tiny Christian community, the
church of Saint Joseph in the west of the Iraqi capital was hit
at about 4:00 am (0100 GMT), the spokesman said. Twenty minutes
later, another blast ripped through the streets at another Saint
Joseph church, in Dora, southern Baghdad. After another 20 minutes,
Saint Paul's church was struck in the same area. At 4:50 am,
the Roman Catholic St. George church in the central district
of Karrada was rocked by a blast and engulfed in flames, leaving
the wood-built sanctuary completely charred. A fifth explosion
occurred about an hour later at Saint Thomas church in Mansour,
to the west. The violence resumed hours later when an artillery
shell was fired into a car park between a hotel and Saint George's
Anglican Church, witnesses and US soldiers said. AFP
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3749520.stm
* October 16, 2004 (Mosul) 1500 ChaldoAssyrian
Syriac students that attend Mosul University have decided not
to attend university classes effective today. The students have
been harassed repeatedly and have been receiving numerous threats
from terrorists and Islamists who are taking advantage from the
non-stability and management chaos at the university. http://www.iraq4allnews.dk/viewnews.php?id=67686ure
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_041022xt.shtml
* October 5, 2004 The
Christians of Ba'asheeqa and Bahzani, near Mosul in north of
Iraq, were shocked this afternoon when they discovered Fadi's
body. The 'Aaid Khidir Shamoon family was devastated as they
witnessed the body of their 15-years-old son Fadi. Fadi's body
was found burned after he was beheaded. Fadi was kidnapped while
he was riding his bike, which his father has given to him as
a present, in the 'Ain 'alaq orchards in Ba'asheeqa around 12:00
noon. His body was treated in the most barbaric way; he was mutilated,
burned, and thrown in the Ba'asheeqa-Teez Kharab road in front
of al-'Azzawi ranch. Earlier, Ba'asheeqa mourned another son,
Julian Afram Yacoub, 14-years-old, when he was hit in the head
with a concrete block and then burned. The
murderers have been targeting innocent children, which are forcing
many Christians and Yezidis to flee their homes and villages.http://www.bahzani.net
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=1855
* September 27, 2004 (Baghdad)
A bus carrying employees of the Baghdad Hunting Club (Nadi al-Sayd)
after leaving work in the early hours of Monday morning was attacked
by unidentified armed men, . Fourteen people were killed and
six injured. Among the dead were nine Chaldean Assyrians. Here
are the names of the dead.
Aamer Nissan (36)
Aadel Nissan (32)
Amer khoshaba (39)
Emanuel Nissan (59)
Maradona Emanuel (20)
Naeem Gewargis (26)
Bassam Elias (22)
Rasim Elias (20)
Amir Shabo
* Sept. 16, Baghdad. Two
Assyrians were beheaded by the Iraq's terrorists. Ankawa.com
has obtained a movie from its sources in Iraq, which shows an
Islamic Terrorist group named 'The Brigades of Salaheddin Al-Eyobe
the armed faction'. Committing a hideous and inhumane crime of
beheading two Assyrian Christian men from Mosul, and the movie
also shows the beheading of a third unidentified man. The criminals'
sons of Darkness filmed their unarmed captives as they stated
their names and identified themselves in terrified and shaky
voices before being decapitated in a horrendous and savage scene.
* September 11, Baghadad,
On the eve of Saturday September 11, 2004, a car bomb exploded
outside the Virgin Mary Seventh-Day Adventist Church in the Al-Sa'doun
Park in the center of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
* September 10, (Bakhdeda) Northern
Iraq. Following the celebration of the Holy Cross, in the Assyrian
town of Bakhdeda in the Qaraqosh, Hamdaniya District, late at
night while people slept homes were attacked by mortars. The
priminary informaiton indicates that three of the mortar fell
on top of a home killing Mark Louis Sheeto, a 13 year old boy,
and seriously injured his mother, Bushra Toma Sheeto, and his
8 year old brother Bihnam Sheeto. http://www.aina.org/news/20040911181922.htm
* September 9, 2004 (Baghdad) A bomb
exploded at the Assyrian Anglican Church at al-Andalus Street
in Baghdad. The explosion occurred during the night. No casualties
were reported.
* September 2, 2004 (Mosul).
In the al-Mayasa (al-Sa'aa) Christian district, Khaled Boulos
(32) and his brother Hani Boulos (28), known also as the sons
of Hasina, were murdered. The deceased Assyrian brothers were
known for their patriotic stands in Mosul in defending and assisting
other Assyrians. According to eyewitnesses, on September 2, at
noon local time, a car carrying a group of armed terrorists pulled
by the Boulos brothers, came out of the car, and began firing
heavily at the two Assyrians, killing them instantly.
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=1631
http://f21.parsimony.net/forum37811/messages/31996.htm
* September 1, 2004 (Mosul).
In a terrorist attack on the Governorate of Nineveh building,
Mr. Nisan Sliyo Shmoel was injured. Mr. Shmoel was taken to hospital
where he was treated. Mr. Shmoel was released from the hospital
after his treatment; however, the terrorists were awaiting his
release and targeted him with an unmarked car (not carrying plate
numbers), which they used to drive him over in front of the hospital
entrance. Mr. Shmoel died immediately. Martyr Nisan Sliyo Shmoel
was 43 years old. Mr. Shmoel is survived by his wife and six
children, five daughters and one son, with the oldest being 15
years.
http://f21.parsimony.net/forum37811/messages/31999.htm
* September 1, 2004 (Baghdad). In the
district of Karrada (Arkhita), a terrorist bomb exploded killing
Mr. Gewargis Youaresh Nisan. A timer in the aforementioned district
that is heavily populated by Assyrians set the bomb. http://f21.parsimony.net/forum37811/messages/32000.htm
*August 31, 2004 (Bartella).
Three Assyrian girls were slaughtered in the Assyrian village
of Bartella near Mosul while returing home from their work at
a hospital in Mosul where they worked. Few days earlier, terrorists
left CDs
in the region filming the slaughter of two other Christians of
the same town.
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=1631
The three women are Tara Majeed Betros
Al-Hadaya, Taghrid Abdul-Massih Ishaq Betros and her sister Hala
Abdul-Massih Ishaq Betros. The attack took place in the section
between the Television area and the Kokajli area on the main
road between Mosul and Bartilla. Also injured in
the attack was another Assyrian woman, 'Amera Nouh Sha'ana, who
was also returning home to Bartilla and the Assyrian driver,
Naji Betros Ishaq. The three female victims were in their twenties.
* August 1, 2004 (Baghdad and (Mosul).
Five Assyrian (also known as Chaldeans and Suryan) and one Armenian
Churches were bombed simultaneously in Baghdad and Mosul. Twelve
Assyrians were killed and some 60 injured. The churches are:
1- Church Sayidat al-Najat (Our Lady of Salvation) - Karrada
(Baghdad) - Syrian (Assyrian) Catholic Church
2.- Church Sayidat al-Zohour (Our Lady of the Flowers) - Karrada
(Baghdad) - Armenian Catholic Church
3.- Sts. Peter & Paul - Doura, al-Meekanik quarters (Baghdad)
Chaldean Catholic Church Seminary
4- St. Paul Church - Center of Mosul
5- St. Elia - Ni'aayriyya oo Gayyara (New Baghdad) - Chaldean
Catholic Church
6- St. Mary's Church in east Baghdad (car bomb disarmed by police)
* July 22, 2004 (Dohuk) Masuad
Barazani and the Kurdish officials of Kurdish Democratic Party
(KDP) in Dohuk have been marginalizing the presence of Assyrians
in the supposedly new democratic Iraq. This, the KDP had practiced
since 1992. The KDP has used its influence to install its own
people in most of the high and sensitive administrative positions
in Dohuk province such as deputy governor, qaimaqams for qadhas,
or mayors for villages despite the fact that the Assyrians make
the second largest ethnic group in the said province and make
a majority in certain of these villages. The KDP's most recently
has prevented Assyrian groups and organizations such as the Assyrian
Democratic Movement (ADM), ChaldoAssyrian Women Union and ChaldoAssyrian
Student Union in Dohuk from being part of the special electoral
committee and from nominating their representatives from this
province (governorate). This special electoral committee is to
participate in the Iraqi national conference planned for end
of July 2004. This, the Kurds have done despite the fact the
Assyrian Democratic Movement has
been part of every opposition group meetings before the fall
of Saddam, then was part of the Iraqi Governing Council and today
is part of the Iraqi Cabinet and is part of the high commission
that is setting the stage for the national conference. Worth
mentioning that from this national conference, a temporary Iraqi
national Assembly should be selected until the national elections
are held in January 2005and a permanent assembly is elected.
The KDP is in violation of all previous agreements and understanding
reached upon by Iraqi opposition groups before and since the
fall of the Ba'ath regime. Every political group, institution,
tribes, segment of society and
notables were to take part in the democratic political process
in the new Iraq.
Assyrians in the Diaspora call upon the Iraqi President, Prime
Minister, government agencies, the United Nations and world organizations
to interfere and undo the Kurdish oppression, marginalization
and trespassing against the Assyrians in north of Iraq.
* July 19, 2004 (Mosul) Sources
stated that unidentified attackers equipped with automatic weapons
attempted to kidnap an Assyrian man, Hani Yohanna Naoom (43)
around 7:00 a.m. near his convenient shop on Dawasa Street, near
the government building. The victim tried to escape from his
kidnappers; he was shot and killed. http://www.ado-world.org/en/news.php?id=336&lang=ar
* July 17, 2004 (Mosul) An unidentified
group using automatic weapons entered a pizza shop at the al-Zihoor
quarters around 3:00 p.m., shot and killed Adeeb Aqrawi, an Assyrian
young man, working at the shop.
http://www.ado-world.org/en/news.php?id=336&lang=ar
* July 2004 (Dohuk) Latest news
from Iraq indicate that the Kurds and Kurds Democratic Party
(KDP) officials under Masuad Barazani are preventing Assyrians
from moving back to their original homes in Dohuk, north of Iraq,
with the situation in Baghdad not improving. Meanwhile, the Kurdish
officials have allowed many Kurdish families from Qamishli, Syria
to move into Dohuk. These foreign Kurdish families have crossed
the Iraqi borders and the KDP has secured for them food, shelter
and all means possible to assist them to settle. Furthermore,
the Kurds and KDP are forcing Assyrians to raise Kurdish flags
in certain Assyrian villages and on top of Assyrian offices and
homes in others.
* July 11, 2004 (Baghdad) Terrorists
entered an Assyrian Christian home while the parents were out
and shot to death at point blank range Raneed Raad 16 and her
sister Raphid 6. The Assyrian family has been threatened earlier;
still, no measures were taken to protect it.
http://www.assyrianchristians.com/commentary_massacre_july_11_04.htm
* July 11, 2004 (Baghdad) Two Assyrian
children from the Chaldean Catholic Church: Sami (6) and Rami
(4) were killed in front of their home when rockets fell in their
neighborhood in center of Baghdad.
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=1205
http://www.ado-world.org/en/iraq.php?id=175&lang=ar
London - Al - Sharq Al-Awsat Newspaper, July 11 / 2004
* June 26, 2004 (10:00 a.m.) (Mosul).
Two unidentified persons in a silver Opel throw a hand bomb at
the Holy Spirit Church (al-Rooh al-Qudos) in the Akha' quarters
in Mosul. The explosion caused injury to a women who is
the sister of Fr. Ragheed, the church priest. She was taken to
hospital.
http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=1162
* June 23, 2004 (Basra)
Two Assyrian sisters, Janet and Shatha Sadah Odisho (Audishow),
aged 38 and 25, were shot dead in a car while returning home
from work in Basra. The two sisters worked for Bechtel, a U.S.
company. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=
5492570 http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040623/ts_nm/iraq_daughters_dc_2
http://www.ado-world.org/en/iraq.php?id=173&lang=ar
* June 20, 2004 (Mosul) Raymond
Farouq Shimun (a 22 years old and son of Farouq and Juliet) was
slain by the forces of evil in Mosul. His head was partially
cut and his hands and legs were smashed. There was signs or effects
of knife on his body, which suggest that he was terrified and
suffered before he died. His body was thrown in a cemetery (a
valley outside the city), after he was kidnapped on June 17 (about
8:30 pm by five armed men not far from his home).
* June 16, 2004 (Sulaymaniya)
Edmond Anwar (Sulaymaniya) Lost a lot of money and merchandize
when his alcohol and cigarette shop was robbed. http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=1091
* June 7, 2004 (Dora, Baghdad) Drive-by
shooting results in the death of four Assyrians and two Armenians:
1. Esho Nisan Marqos
2. Ramziya Enwiya Youkhanna
3. Duraid Sabri Hanna
4. Alice Aramayis
5. Aaida Bedros Boughos
6. Munah Jalal Karim
www.zindamagazine.com issue 14 June 2004
(http://www.aina.org/news/20040614200324.htm)
* June 2, 2004 (Baghdad) Faraj Moshe
Markhai, kidnapped and then killed on 6/4/2004 http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=1090
* June 10, 2004 (Baghdad) Janan Joseph,
an Assyrian Christian, was shot and killed inside his home in
al-Mansour quarters along with ten more Christians in the quarter.
http://www.sotaliraq.com/newiraq/article_2004_07_19_4004.html
* May 2004 (Baghdad) Nahrain Yonaan,
blinded and her face a battlefield of wounds, from a drive-by
attack and bombing
www.zindamagazine.com issue 5/24/2004 (Los Angeles Times, 5/21/2004)
* May 28, 2004 (Baghdad) Ashor Goriel
Yalda killed in his car with a grenade while on his way to work.
* April 4, 2004 (Miqdadiya) Emad Mikha
of Detroit, killed while working with the U.S. Army as a civilian
translator .www.zindamazine.com issue 4/12/2004 (Detroit Free
Press, 4/13/2004)
* March 26, 2004 (Kirkuk) Lieutenant
Romeo Esha David, a member of the Assyrian Democratic Movement,
was killed in his home.
www.zindamagazine.com issue 3/29/2004
* March 22, 2004 (Baghdad) Zinda Magazine
reports that Assyrian Elderly couple, Ameejon Barama and his
wife Jewded were brutally murdered in their own home by Militants
in the town of Dora, near Baghdad, Iraq. The husband's throat
was slashed and the wife was struck repeatedly to the head. (http://aina.org/releases/20040613151448.htm)
* March 17, 2004 (Baghdad) Assyrian
family dead and others wounded after bomb attack:
1. Marta Eskharia (mother)
2. Odisho (father)
3. Farid (son)
4. Zaia (son)
5. The older daughter, Shmoni, survived as she was in Dohuk.
Her daughter severely wounded. Wife of Farid is also severely
wounded.
http://www.aina.org/bbs/index.cgi?read=21336
* February 17, 2004 (Ankawa)
Oppression of Kurds. Members of the Kurd Students Union are indulging
in activities that do not reflect democratic practices. On February
17, 2004 at the Ankawa Boys High School, a group of students
from the Kurds Students Union entered classes against all rules
and regulations and while classes were in session and distributed
applications to student to join the Kurds Students Union. The
ChaldoAssyrian Students and Youth Union protests such inappropriate,
illegal, and unfair activities that interfere with the students'
studies.
www.zindamagazine.com
* February 11, 2004 (Mosul) The
Associated Press reports that Gunmen firing from a car attacked
an office of the Assyrian Democratic Party in Mosul, injuring
one security guard, according to party member Napoleon Fatou.
(http://aina.org/releases/20040613151448.htm)
* January 25, 2004: Bahra Newspaper
reports that Dr. Sarmad Samee was shot in Basra. (http://aina.org/releases/20040613151448.htm)
* January 24, 2004 (Telkepeh)
The attempted assassination of the mayor of the Telkepeh district
(north Iraq), which includes several Chaldo-Assyrian villages.
Mayor Wathah Gorgis was in his car returning from Mosul after
meeting with the governor of Nineveh when his car was meet with
sprays of bullets near the dentistry college of Mosul. The district
Mayor lives in the village of Telkepeh which its Christian population
drop has drped from 98% to 50% . During the ladt few years with
4 mosques built here and a fifth underway. (http://aina.org/releases/20040613151448.htm)
* January 21, 2004 (Falluja/Ramadi)
Four women were killed and the other five were injured. The victims,
who were Armenian or Assyrian Christians, worked at a nearby
U.S. military base in Habbaniyah. The women worked in the laundry.
(Associated Press)
* January 22, 04 terrorists attacked
Elishwa (Alicia) Bedel Naser
(Assyrian Star magazine Winter 2003 issue.)
2003
* April 10, 2003 (Kirkuk) Hazim
Petrus Damman, a chemical engineer, killed during Kurdish raid
www.zindamagazine.com issue 4/28/2004
(http://www.aina.org/releases/karkukmosul.htm)
* July 19, 2003 (Mosul) A 16
year old girl, Hilda Zuhair Istifan, was kidnapped in front of
her home in the Muthana district of Mosul. The kidnapping was
conducted by Muhamad Thiya Al-din Jasim, a cousin of Saddam Hussain,
and the son of high ranking army official in Saddam's army. Muhamad's
unlce was the director of Saddam terrorist army group, Fida'yeen
Saddam. (http://aina.org/releases/20040613151448.htm)
* August 19, 2003 (Tikrit) Nadan Yonadam
of Modesto, killed while working with the U.S. Army as a civilian
translator. www.zindamagazine.com issue 9/1/2003
* October 3, 2003 (Khaldiya) Napoleon
and his son killed in front of their home
www.zindamagazine.com issue 10/6/2003 (Associated Press, 3 October)
* October 7, 2003 (Mosul) Safa
Sabah Khoshi killed (and his cousin Mr. Meyaser Karim Khoshi
critically injured) when his liquor store was attacked by RPG
grenade. (http://aina.org/releases/20040613151448.htm)
* October 12, 2003 (Falluja) Danny Isaac
and William Cesar killed in front of their homes.
www.zindamagazine.com issue 10/20/2003
* October 20, 2003 (Kirkuk) Zinda
Magazine reports that a rocket-propelled grenade hit the office
of the Assyrian Democratic Movement in Kirkuk on Sunday. Jevan
Jerges, 29 was injured in the attack. (http://aina.org/releases/20040613151448.htm)
* November 4, 2003 (Mosul) Ismail
Yousif Sadeq, an Assyrian judge, shot dead outside his home www.zindamagazine.com
issue 11/3/2003
* November 18, 2003 (Basra) Sargon Nano,
the Assyrian Democratic Movement (Zowaa) representative in Basra,
killed www.zindamagazine.com issue 11/17/2003
* November 20, 2003 (Mosul) Bombs
have been discovered and leaflets found demanding that Christian
students become Muslims or face death at schools in Baghdad and
Mosul (northern Iraq) (ASSIST News Service)
(http://aina.org/releases/20040613151448.htm)
* December 24, 2003 (Basra) Bashir Toma
Elias, killed by a single shot to the head.
(Rueters)
www.zindamagazine.com issue 12/29/2003
(http://www.sotaliraq.com/file/article_2003_12_30_44158y.html)
* December 2003 (North of Iraq) ChaldoAssyrian
Student Union boycotts elections due to unfair and oppressive
acts by Kurdish groups. www.zindamagazine.com issue 12/29/2003
* December 2003 (Basra) Assyrians leaving
Basra due to terror and killings.
(http://www.sotaliraq.com/file/article_2003_12_30_44158y.html)
