AN APPEAL TO THE UNITED NATIONS

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday January 06, 2003 16:44 by Evin Agassi http://members.aol.com/assyrianme/songs/evin5.html

YAA KHELAAWAAT'E GOOR'E oh great powerful nations MELCH'E[1] GAABAAR'E[2]. mighty[2] kings[1]. HELOON ARRATAN[3] QAATAAN give us -our land-[3] MARRMAAKH'LA AATAAN[33]. and we shall raise -our flag-[33] SHOOQOON QAAT OOMPTAAN[4] KHAAYAA let -our nation-[4] live KHAYOOTAA BAAYAA it wants to live OOMPTAAN KHAYOOTA BAAYAA our nation wants to live. SHOOQOON QAAT KHAYAA. let it live.

AN APPEAL TO THE UNITED NATIONS
A song that has been translated and distributed to all of the United Nation members. The deception by the British for a proclamation mandate for the creation of an Assyrian state caused the death of almost 1,000,000 Assyrians (2/3 of our population) lives by massacres from the Turkish, Arab, Persian, and Kurdish populous. After World War One, the Assyrians ("The Smallest Ally" as the British called us) suffered great casualties and a started a mass exodus to countries around the world (especially between the years 1919 and 1923.) The burden of blame falls upon the shoulders of the British (as if they don't have enough blood on their hands) for pulling the rug on the mandate, guaranteeing an Assyrian State and having us fall before the Muslim sword. This was due to the fact that oil was recently discovered in that area, and they knew that they would not have complete access to that oil if Assyrians controlled the area. Knowing that it would be easier to control the arabs, the deception commenced. Evin's song, "HABANIA" puts it bluntly, "For that black blood, what red blood was poured". Indelible as our blood is on British hands, it is also shared with the perpetrators of the massacres. The same perpetrators of the genocide of 1,100,000 of our Christian brothers, the Armenians, in Eastern Turkey. The suffrage of the Armenians is not well acknowledged by most of the world and ours in completely ignored. Our persecution still continues. It is one of the only areas in the world where a first class population is treated as second class citizens by third class people. Disbursed throughout the world, Assyrians current enemy is assimilation. Gratified that we can live in such a beautiful country, a great burden is placed on EACH individual to maintain the culture and our most significant triumph is to keep the our ancient language, Aramaic, alive. We have survived 100 generations, but it only takes one to lose our identity. With that as the largest hurdle, the rest is easy.