As the Ottoman government set out to eliminate their empire's Christian population-Armenian, Assyrian, Syriac, Chaldean, and Greek alike-Hanna Danho's grandfather once again found his entire village in danger, 20 years after they first fled.
Girshamo always had a Syriac population, but before the genocide of 1915, the area was mostly farmed by those living in the Tur Abdin mountains now in Turkey, like Danho's grandfather's village of Habab.
Syriac villages on the Syrian side of the boundary grew significantly, populated by those who'd fled from the genocide in Turkey.
Somewhere between two and three million people were killed in the Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christian communities.
For much of the last century, Syriac Christians did not memorialize their genocide in the same way that Armenians did.
The Syriac community has chosen June 15 as the date to mark the beginning of the genocide in 1915, and this year, events were organized in the cities of al-Hassakah, Qamishli, Qahtaniyah, and Derik.
The next day in Qamishli, in the largely Christian neighborhood of al-Wusta, the Syriac Union Party held a commemoration of the event featuring poems, dance, music, speeches, and a documentary video with photos taken during the genocide of starving children, women crucified, and piles of bodies left to the wolves, literal and figurative.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-anti-christian-genocide-the-west-forgot/
Girshamo always had a Syriac population, but before the genocide of 1915, the area was mostly farmed by those living in the Tur Abdin mountains now in Turkey, like Danho's grandfather's village of Habab.
Syriac villages on the Syrian side of the boundary grew significantly, populated by those who'd fled from the genocide in Turkey.
Somewhere between two and three million people were killed in the Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christian communities.
For much of the last century, Syriac Christians did not memorialize their genocide in the same way that Armenians did.
The Syriac community has chosen June 15 as the date to mark the beginning of the genocide in 1915, and this year, events were organized in the cities of al-Hassakah, Qamishli, Qahtaniyah, and Derik.
The next day in Qamishli, in the largely Christian neighborhood of al-Wusta, the Syriac Union Party held a commemoration of the event featuring poems, dance, music, speeches, and a documentary video with photos taken during the genocide of starving children, women crucified, and piles of bodies left to the wolves, literal and figurative.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-anti-christian-genocide-the-west-forgot/
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