Farewell Ceremony for Syriac Military Council Fighter Said Abdullahad

Today (22-11-2019) the farewell ceremony of Syriac Military Council fighter Said Abdullahad, also known by his sobriquet “Athro Hassake”, took place in the Syriac-Orthodox Church in Hassake, northern Syria, in the presence of his family and friends, the bishop of the Gozarto canton Mor Moris Amsih, local clergy and political leaders of the Syriac Union Party and Bethnahrin National Council. After the speeches by the bishop, family and friends, the Syriac Military Council performed a military honoring ceremony for its fallen fighter and accompanied his coffin to his last resting place. Martyr “Athro Hassake” was laid to rest at the military cemetery of the Syriac Military Council in Hassake.

Fighter Said Abdullahad was killed in action with six other fighters in Tel Tamer. The Syriac Military Council, as part of the Syrian Democratic Forces, is responsible for the defense of the Tel tamer area against the Turks and their radical Islamist Syrian National Army. Turkey invaded the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North & East Syria in October by first attacking the cities of Tel Abyad and Ayn Issa.

Their advances on Tel tamer have met strong resistance from the Syriac Military Council and so far, the advances of the Turkish-trained and armed Syrian National Army, which e.g. receives air support from Turkish drones, were repelled. Tel tamer is an original Syriac-Assyrian area with tens of Syriac-Assyrian villages. The area was settled, and the villages established after the 1933 massacre of Simele in which thousands of Syriacs-Assyrians were massacred by the Iraqi army and local Kurdish tribes.