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By Ablahad Hanna Saka | Bethnahrin National Council member and a deacon in the Syriac Orthodox Church The Ottomans dismantled the Syriac family — they killed the father and mother, raped and plundered the children, all before the eyes of the international community. Yet, despite all this, the surviving remnant of…

BETH NAHRIN – Under the banner “Our Struggle to Raise Awareness of the Sayfo Genocide Continues,” the Presidency of the Bethnahrin National Council (Mawtbo Umthoyo d’Bethnahrin, MUB), today released a formal statement commemorating 110 years since the Sayfo massacres of 1915. The MUB asserts that, by embracing the legacy of…

TEANECK, New Jersey/WORCESTER, Massachusetts — American cinemas are preparing to screen the documentary Souls in Transit, which chronicles the tragic massacres committed by the Ottoman Empire and allied Kurdish tribes against the Syriac people during World War I, shedding light on the barbaric crimes that occurred in recent years. Directed…

SÖDERTÄLJE, Sweden — A Sayfo memorial will be erected in the public space of the Swedish town of Södertälje. The decision for the monument comes after years of discussions within the city’s municipal council, with heated disputes over design and the national names to be inscribed on the memorial. This…

YEREVAN — In a moment of long-overdue recognition, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) has awarded the James Bryce Memorial Medal to Swedish historian David Gaunt, a leading figure in the study of genocidal campaigns against Christian minorities during the final years of the Ottoman Empire.  The award ceremony capped a…

One-hundred and ten years ago, more than 500 thousand Syriacs [Arameans–Assyrians–Chaldeans] in Beth Nahrin [Mesopotamia], were “cleansed” in the 1915 Sayfo Genocide. Subsequent policies of assimilation, both Islamization and Turkification, did the rest. Even though the Syriac people have been living through these genocidal policies and traumas for 110 years,…

PULHEIM, Germany / HENGELO, Netherlands — This year marks the 110th anniversary of the Sayfo Genocide, carried out by the Ottoman Empire during World War I against the Syriac (Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean) people. To commemorate the victims, the Bethnahrin National Council (MUB), the European Syriac Union (ESU), and the Bethnahrin Women’s Union…

BAGHDEDA (QARAQOSH), Nineveh Plains — In a sober and solemn atmosphere, the Baghdeda Local Committee of the Bethnahrin Patriotic Union (Huyodo Bethnahrin Athroyo-HBA) today organized a vigil to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the Sayfo Genocide, which in the year 1915 cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Chaldeans-Syriacs-Assyrians…

BETH ZALIN, North and Syria / BAGHDEDE, Iraq — On the 110th anniversary of the 1915 Sayfo Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and its Kurdish tribal allies against the Syriac (Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean) people, the Syriac Union Party (SUP) in Syria and the Beth Nahrain Patriotic Union (Huyodo d’Bethnahrin Athroyo, HBA)…

By Leah Miksi-Sahdo “What can I tell you about Sayfo that you don’t already know?” These were the moving words of Richard Ghazal, Executive Director of In Defense of Christians, which captured the enduring legacy of the Sayfo Genocide—one that continues to echo through generations, even 110 years later. 110th…