AFTER 2000 YEARS, THE LAST CHRISTIANS IN IRAQ FLEE

[Yervant1]

AFTER 2000 YEARS, THE LAST CHRISTIANS IN IRAQ FLEE

The Daily Mercury and Rural Weekly (Mackay, Queensland)
November 24, 2014 Monday

TWO years ago Jalal Yako, a Syriac Catholic priest, returned to his
home town of Qaraqosh to persuade members of his community to stay in
Iraq and not to emigrate because of the violence directed against them.

"The Pope in Lebanon two years ago had established a mission to get
Christians in the East to stay here," he said.

Father Yako laboured among the Syriac Catholics, one of the oldest
Christian communities in the world, who had seen the number of
Christians in Iraq decline from more than one million at the time of
the American invasion in 2003 to about 250,000 today.

He sought to convince people in Qaraqosh, an overwhelmingly Syriac
Catholic town, that they had a future in Iraq and should not emigrate
to the US, Australia or anywhere else that would accept them. His task
was not easy, because Iraqi Christians have been frequent victims of
murder, kidnapping and robbery.

But in the past six months Father Yako has changed his mind, and he
now believes that, after 2000 years of history, Christians must leave
Iraq. Speaking at the entrance of a half-built mall in the Kurdish
capital Irbil where 1650 people from Qaraqosh have taken refuge,
he said that "everything has changed since the coming of Daesh (the
Arabic acronym for Islamic State). We should flee. There is nothing
for us here."

It is not the savage violence of IS only that has led Father Yako
to believe that Christians have no future in Iraq. He points also to
the failure of both the Iraqi Government and the Kurdistan Regional
Government to defend them against the jihadis.

The Chaldean Archbishop of Irbil, Bashar Warda, suspects that, even
if IS is driven back and Christians can return to their homes, half
of them will only stay long enough to sell their property.

Almost exactly 100 years after the Armenian Christians in Turkey were
slaughtered or driven into exile, the end has come for the Christian
community of Iraq. "Have no doubt," concludes Archbishop Warda,
"that here is massacre, here is a tragedy."

[onjig]

In Nevada there are horses that live on the land, beautiful creatures. Each year a government agency the B.L.M finds anounces a reason to come for them, to chase, corner and corral large numbers of them. The reason given is always for their best interest, too many for the land to support, not enough water this year. Saying they will be managed, relocated or adopted. Some are killed for their best interests the B.L.M denies the number of deaths. There are many other animals living on the land but they are not managed. The bands of horses live on the grasses and plants on open land, there is plenty, we are not permitted to feed them though some of us do now and then, just to have them come close to us.

 

I see a parrallel that has played out over years with the Christian in their ancestral lands, the driving, herding, killing and denying. The times when the horror seems to be over only to start again, with the driving of the followers of Christ westward and the surronding of those who remain into islands of captives. There is some phyical point, the Pacific rim, where they/we can go no farther.

 

In all European countries, in all countries in the west the U.S. , Canada and others. There are large growing Orc populations.

 

The liberals aid the Orc by not admitting, and working, voting against us and thereby working with the Orc. The Orc no longer lives in a tent, they are on the internet, they read our mail. They hate, plot and have not changed their spots.

 

Where can we sit, where shall we stand?

[Ashot]

Come back to Armenia?

[Arpa]

Dear Ashot, it is so good to see you again. Are you still in Yerevan?

Please keep it up, perhaps that way we can get back to where we left a few years ago, and once regain find our long lost friends.

Please, please, pleas again. No ispik furky, no dolma debates. **See the wars about LAVASH.

See #11 here;

http://hyeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=10722&page=1&&do=findComment&comment=134963

Լաւշ, Laush, ԼՕՇ not ԼՈՇ, ԼԱՒԱՇ not ԼաՎաշ

LaVash is the turkifi:ed format of LaWash . Neither they or the Persians have the sound of W, we do. It is not Votertavn/ Վոթըրթավն, it is Ուոթըրթաուն:

** What is next? That KHASH their invention and it is a furkish WORD?

Edited December 2, 2014 by Arpa