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"Seyfo" monument for Sweden Blocked by Turks.

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Thursday, November 29 2007, 1:16:58 (CET)
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...finally, some sanity. We know that our people don't consider all dead Christians to be martyrs...we know they don't much care if Christian nations kill 30,000 of us or 300,000...but if Muslims kill even one...it's a tragedy.

..The Turks are justified by history in denouncing the claim of genocide against Christians OR Armenians. There was no systematic attempt to round up all ARMENIANS AND assyrians for extermination. Turkey could easily demand equal treatment and offer to join any Christian nation addmitting to its own mass murders.

Turks Block Installation of Assyrian Genocide Monument in Sweden

GMT 11-28-2007 18:0:19
Assyrian International News Agency
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Södertälje, Sweden (AINA) -- The local newspaper of Södertälje, a town just south of the Swedish capital, has been busy covering the unfolding drama of the Seyfo Monument. Seyfo is an Assyrian word referring to the 1914-1918 Turkish genocide of 750,000 Assyrians, as well as 400,000 Greeks and 1.5 million Armenians. The Turkish state fiercely objects to any mentioning of genocide of Assyrians and is spending millions of dollars to promote its official view of Turkish WWI history.

The town of Södertälje has reluctantly become a battle ground for the efforts of the Turkish state and the 20,000 strong Assyrians living there since the mid 70s. The Assyrian community was promised recently by the municipality of Södertälje a monument for the remembrance of the Turkish genocide of Assyrians. But the issue took a new spin as fresh reports revealed Turkish lobbyists influenced Swedish politicians to stop the planned monument. A shadowy organization named "The ideas of Ataturk in Sweden" is suspected to be behind the lobby efforts to stop the monument.

Prominent members of the Assyrian community have been quoted in the media vowing to continue their efforts until the monument is installed, calling the Turkish state to change its position and acknowledge the genocide of Assyrians. "This is a sensitive issue for every Assyrian in the world and it is of great importance for several generations of Assyrians, that is why we will not give up so easily," said Rachel Hadodo, chairwoman of the Assyrian Federation of Sweden.

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