Barzani's letter shows that not even our Assyrian martyrs escape Kurdish falsification of history. The offense is of course so much greater when the perpetrators of the massacres of Assyrians were often Kurds. Here are just a few examples:
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In 1843 and 1846 Kurdish clan leaders Bedr Khan Beg and Nurullah murdered tens of thousands Assyrians in Hakkari and Turabdin. Bedr Khan Beg's cousin's sons, Izaddin Sher and Masur Beg, continued the killings of Assyrians in Tur Abdin in 1855.
- Sultan Abdulhamid's
Hamidiye troops, who killed some 20,000 Assyrians and Armenians 1894-96 in the towns of Omid, Urhoy, were also Kurds.
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20 years later, in 1915, various Kurdish clans actively engaged in the genocide of World War One, and many tribal leaders also became wealthy landowners after taking Assyrian lands by force. They also took captured Assyrian women and girls as wives.
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One of the leaders of the Assyrian liberation struggle in World War I, Patriarch Mar Shimon Benyamen, was murdered by the Kurdish leader Simko in March 1918. The murder took place in a treacherous ambush just as the Patriarch and his entourage had mounted their horses to leave after concluding peace negotiations with the Kurdish warlord Simko, in his own home. But Simko had put snipers on the roof. The murder was a disaster for the Assyrian liberation struggle. Today the KRG has a street called Simko. Apparently he is considered a hero in Kurdish eyes.
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The general who led the Iraqi forces in the Simmele massacre of 1933 was a Kurd named Bakr Sidki. He had previously been an officer in the Turkish-Ottoman army and participated in all probability also in the genocide of 1915.
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Originally Posted by Wadaad
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