Ashuriena ܐܫܘܪܝܢܐ

Assyrians-Chaldeans-Syriacs, you are being played like a fiddle. I will go further, you have been played like a fiddle for decades. During the drafting of the Iraqi constitution after Saddam fell, a certain group hostile to our interests INSISTED on the tri-name. They knew we’d be weaker as a “tri-people” & that this would eventually fracture us from one nation into three. They PUSHED for the constitution to recognize these three “people” seperately. Ask yourself: why would they do this? Because they care about Aram or Chaldea? Well, it worked! Now that institutionalized tri-name is used against us, to a) get us to fight eachother, publicly, like lowly fools, b) to imply that we are a disjointed Mesopotamian hodgepodge with no indigenous roots. Congratulations, you’ve been played. Each entity within this “tri-name” has its own historical narrative as well as a narrative foreigners are *literally making up*. You are being played and you don’t even realize it. Your disunity has been manufactured for decades and because of your ignorance of history, you have no clue. Ignorance not just of ancient history, but the modern realpolitik in which your conception of identity has been shaped — primarily by the Iraqi state & its opposition to Assyrian existence (which goes back to the Simele massacre, the founding act of Iraqi nationhood). Now that you’re nothing in your own lands demographically, watch them: (1) claim you never existed, (2) rewrite your history, (3) transform you from what you are — the soul of the land, the archeology in the dirt — into a scattered nation of “gypsies.” And YOU let it happen. You are LETTING it happen. Wake up Suraya.

The story of Sister Cecilia, the Assyrian nun who was raised an orphan & died a martyr. Please be warned that this story is extremely graphic. Sister Cecilia was raised in the village of Araden which translates to the "Land of Eden" in Aramaic. She was raised in a monastery. Her family was displaced during the Kurdish uprising in the 60s, relocating to Mosul then Baghdad. She spent her adult life as a Chaldean nun looking after sick Catholics in Baghdad. She was 71 years old when they killed her. On August 15, 2002, her family begged her not to go back to the monastery that night. "I cannot leave God's house alone". That was the night that three men broke into the Sacred Heart of Jesus Monastery in Baghdad. They found Sister Cecilia Moshi Hanna alone. They stabbed her. Repeatedly. They slit her throat. They cut off her head. She was 71 years old. They chose that night deliberately. The next morning, tens of thousands of Christians had a retreat on. She was raised an orphan in a monastery, and she became a martyr in a monastery, with her Lord. Nobody was ever prosecuted. This is what Assyrian Christians have endured. The Catholic Church has declared Sister Cecilia a Servant of God. DO NOT LET HISTORY FORGET HER NAME!