The Assyrian Affair Of 1933 (II)

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ID8969129
AuthorsKhaldun S Husry (American University of Beirut, corresponding author)
Year1974
Volume5
Issue3
Pages344-360
Publication date1974-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s002074380003498x
OpenAlexW2162611903
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited2

And as it often happens in Iraq in times of internal turbulence, a general wave of looting swept the north. Assyrian villages were looted by Kurdish and Arab tribesmen and by neighbouring villages, with the Yezidis joining the Kurds and Arabs in this general free-for-all. Sixty Assyrian villages, according to Stafford, were looted in this way and completely or partially destroyed, resulting in a total estimated loss to the Assyrians of at least £50,000. Stafford, however, also records that there was not a single act of aggression against any Assyrian village until 8 August, even the defenceless villages of the men who had gone to Syria with Yaqu not being touched before this date. 1 Still, some of the acts committed by the Iraqis subsequent to the attack on them and to their discovery of the atrocities committed by the Assyrians are nothing but black and terrible. But even these were to pale beside what was to happen at Summayl

Ancient history · Archaeology · Looting · Nothing · Political science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · History · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Philosophy · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics

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