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=> Australian assyrians retreat, yelling "Victory"!!

Australian assyrians retreat, yelling "Victory"!!
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, July 21 2011, 15:24:50 (UTC)
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FAIRFIELD: A CONTROVERSIAL plaque commemorating Australian and Assyrian forces fighting side by side is set to be recast with a word change in an effort to quell ethnic tensions and constant vandalism.

The Assyrian Levies Association plaque in Fairfield Park, which was removed by vandals in March and splashed with paint last September, will be replaced next month with the word “Turkey” changed to “Ottoman” after a complaint was made to council.

Assyrian Levies Association president Gaby Kiwarkis said the Assyrian community were up in arms after the latest act of vandalism in March but wanted to keep the situation calm.

“They wanted to demonstrate,” he said. “I had to tell people to calm down and do it the right way.

...(they wanted to "demonstrate", but Gaby "calmed them down"...what, another 30 minute outpouring of "rage"?)

“It’s not about politics when you are remembering the dead.”


...say what? These people not only "remember the dead", they practically drag them out of their graves once a year and try to get political advantage by using them to claim they need their own country! Their silly monument was stolen and they agreed to tone down their age-old complaint against them nasty Turks....and this is a victory to them? Seems to me like the Turks won.



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