For Billy... http://www.persecutionblog.com/2009/08/assyrian-martyr-day.html
Chicago (AINA) -- August 7 is Assyrian Memorial day, a day when the Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) community worldwide remembers its Martyrs. Reflecting the Assyrian Diaspora, events are planned for San Jose, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Chicago, Detroit, New York, London, Paris, Stockholm, Amsterdam, North Iraq, Syria, Iran and other locations. August 7 was chosen to commemorate Martyrs Day because in 1933, between August 8 and 11, the Iraqi army, led by Bakir Sidqi (a Kurd), entered the Assyrian town of Simmele and its surroundings, in north Iraq, and massacred 3,000 Assyrian men, women and children, after they had been promised safety if the men surrendered their weapons.
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