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Aramean people: Aramean people (not to be confused with ‘Armenians’) speak Aramaic, the language spoken by Abraham, Moses and Jesus. They are the indigenous people of what was called in ancient times Aram- Nahrin, in our days it is called ‘Mesopotamia’. Some Arameans today identify themselves with “Assyrians”, because of the spiritual colonial hate generating activities of the Western missionaries and diplomats in the Middle-East in 16th and 19th centuries. Other Arameans became known as “Chaldeans”. However all of them are Arameans. A UN meeting in the North of Iraq on security situation
On 27th of May 2010 a crucial meeting, under guidance of UN, was held in the north of Iraq where all ethnic and religious minorities, national and regional governments of Iraq participated (see below UN press release). The Arameans of Mesopotamia also took part in this important meeting. Aram-Naharaim welcomes this initiative and we hope that it shall result in the improvement of the situation of all the groups in Iraq, including the Aramean Indigenous nation.
The meeting took place because of security situation and human rights violations and was held in Telkeef.
The Arameans of Aram-Naharaim Organization is extremely worried about the situation of the Arameans of Iraq. The Aramean nation of Iraq, also made known as “Assyrians” in some media, find themselves in very fragile situation. The Arameans are marginalized and threatened with ethnic cleansing. Due to undiminished persecutions, killings, plundering and attacks, many Arameans have already left Iraq.
The Aram-Naharaim Organization raised its voice in several letters and reports to the international organizations and governments to ask for their attention to the fragile situation of the Aramean nation of Iraq. We mention few examples:
23-3-2010: Letter to the United Nations on the situation of the Arameans of Iraq: http://www.iraqichristians.info/English/Aramean_People_Iraq_UN_Help_23_3_2010.htm 31-10-2008: Letter to the Secretary General of the UN: http://www.iraqichristians.org/English/Aramean_Organisations_Letter_UN_31_10_2008.htm 6-5-2008: Letter to the Secretary General of the UN: http://www.iraqichristians.org/English/ArameansOrganisations_UN_Iraq_Help_10_5_2008.htm 22-4-2008: Letter to the government of Iraq: http://www.iraqichristians.org/English/ArameanOrganisations_Protection_leaders_Iraq_25_4_2008.htm 29-8-2007: Letter to the government of Iraq: http://www.iraqichristians.org/English/Letter_Iraqi_Government_29_8_2007.htm
Because of their fragile position combined with lack of adequately functioning security apparatus, the Arameans are an easy target for powers who intend to cleanse Iraq of its original inhabitants who have been present in this part of the world since thousands of years.
According to the website of asianews.it, on Tuesday 8th of June 2010 the West- Aramean Syrian Catholic Hani Salim Wadi was brutally killed in Kirkuk. (http://www.asianews.it/news-en/The-killing-of-a-Christian-businessman-in-Kirkuk-rekindles-fear-among-Christians-18622.html)
Mr. Hani Salim Wadi is the such and such Aramean who has been killed in Iraq since the invasion in 2003.
The Arameans of Iraq
Before the war of 2003, there were around 800.000 Arameans in Iraq. Probably more than half of them have left the country. The attacks on their churches and leaders chased the Arameans out of Iraq. We mention few examples:
Colonialism and division within the Aramean nation.
The spiritual/political colonial Western intervention and machinations in the Middle-East divided the Arameans in various denominations, namely:
The terms “East- “ and “West- Arameans” go back to the time of early Christianity where the Aramean indigenous nation was geographically termed as such. Roughly speaking the Euphrates River was the border. Those Arameans living Eastern of Euphrates, thus living in Persia, were termed “East- Arameans” and those living Western of Euphrates, thus in Roman Empire, were called “Western- Arameans”. The designations “Chaldeans” and “Assyrians” for the eastern Arameans go back to the Western colonial activities of the 16th (France + Catholic missionaries) and 19th (Great Britain + Anglican missionaries) centuries. The ecclesiastical and political Western powers closely worked together and setup camps in Turkey, Iraq, and Iran where the Aramean children were “educated” through which they were completely uprooted from their Aramean origin. They thereby planted a horrible form of fanaticism in their hearts which caused them to display an immense aversion to their Aramean origin.
In the year 1553 the Western Catholic missionaries together with France brainwashed a part of the East- Aramean clergy by means of bribery to call themselves “Chaldeans” with the result that the Aramaic language became known as “Chaldean” language and a part of the Aramean nation became known as “Chaldean” nation in some parts of the Western literature, the first attack on the Aramean heritage.
As a result of mutual hatred and competition between the Western Catholics and Protestants, in the late 19th century the same process was repeated, this time by the Anglican missionaries and Great Britain, and the other part of the East- Aramean “Nestorian” tribes of Hakkari (bordering Turkey and Iraq) and Urmia (Iran) to call themselves "Assyrians"- a term which was used purely geographically and only applied to the "Nestorians". The result was that Aramaic became known as “Assyrian” language and the Aramean nation as the “Assyrian” nation- this was the second and more severe attack on the Aramean heritage- a kind of spiritual genocide.
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UN BRINGS RELIGIOUS, ETHNIC COMMUNITIES TO THE DISCUSSION
TABLE IN NORTHERN IRAQ
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