The Assyrians Under Saddam Hussein | Iraq Middle East Conflict Explained

[@martino_yes]

So much clarity 🙏

[@ninostexas9387]

Great topic khona. More Assyrian content please. 👏👏

[@JSN9233]

Spot on. We’re more than just “Iraqi Christian’s” like saddam tried making us believe

[@roses.4684]

Agreed. More Assyrians need to question the concept of "Iraq".

[@KingSargon96]

Iraq is Assyria and Sumerian Empire together

[@desertboy1162]

@@KingSargon96no Sumerian’s were wiped out by coming Akkadians. The Akkadians might have come from the peninsula because the Dilmun people were also east Semitic speakers located not far from Iraq in the historical Bahrain belt the eastern coast of the Arabian peninsula. Most Iraqi Arabs now are just Arabian-Iranian mix especially Shias, well Sunni Iraqis show a genetic continuity in the north with older Semitic population, well the Sunni Arabs in the West are North Arabians like Jordanians

[@desertboy1162]

There are ethnic Arab Christians in Iraq but they are a small minority, most ethnic Arab or Bedouin Christian’s live in Jordan.

[@dmx7329]

@@KingSargon96 False....that is Mesopotamia

[@MitchellKeahey]

Phenomenal work brother. Nobody’s doing it like this 🏆

[@sargonyalda]

This is an excellent interview and as accurate as they come. Very good analysis about the whole situation from the get go.

[@Fatkidlovecake]

12:46 I literally heard the same thing from my family. We where told he trusted the Assyrians because of intelligence he has on their loyalty

[@Ashur-Mesopotamia]

We are not Iraqi Christians. We are Assyrians. We are the indigenous people of this land. One day we will return to our country. Assyria belongs to the Assyrians. Isaiah 19:23-25 Nearly six million Assyrian Christians dot the world. Mesopotamia is the homeland of the Assyrians. The famous royal cities of the Assyrians, Ashur, Nimrud (Kalhu), Arbela, Dur-Sharrukin and Nineveh were built in it. The Assyrians ruled for approximately 1,300 years - from about 2000 B.C. to 612/10 BC - in northern Mesopotamia an ancient landscape between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. A clear reference to the existence of the Assyrians, on the other hand, can already be found in the Old Testament (1st Book of Moses 2:14). There it says: * “… the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates..."

[@АлександрИванов-р9ф6г]

❤🫂

[@densel6587]

Assyrians are syria isnt?

[@hamzaboughraira4455]

Bro you literally can go back to your "Assyria" tomorrow nobody is stopping you dude 🥴 and the country is called Iraq, the Assyrian empire fell in 612 BC so that's 2636 years ago and since then it was ruled by many many empires. Oh and the name Iraq comes from the Akkadian city Uruk in southern Iraq, you know what bro? It's better you go back to school

[@livinglife3257]

Praying for the safe arrival of all the Assyrians around the world to Iraq.

[@user-soon300]

All people Iraq just to know everything from Iraq even you assyring are Iraq's

[@yolopolo8559]

God bless bro, thank you for exploring the Assyrian history and our perspective which is overlooked so often.

[@MitchellKeahey]

God bless the Assyrians & iraqi Christians 🙏

[@ritaa1359]

what Iraqi people r christians Iraqi r islamic assyrians r christian or catholic rare to find a assyrian orthodox

[@AtourinaAssyrian]

Wow... this info about his kitchen workers being Christians is deep. It speaks volumes when it comes to Christians vs Muslims.

[@roses.4684]

It speaks volumes on the dhimmi, confirmative mentality that is rampant among Assyrians/Chaldeans (specifically Chaldeans). Our own kind are not that trustworthy, either, but they know how to cower really well.

[@Assyrian-AK]

never really comment on youtube comments but love your videos khon

[@LazyIntellectuals]

Much love!

[@SarghonJindo]

Real information that everyone should highlight so that all media outlets know it . Thanks for sharing the truth

[@copperstatecomics]

Another great video!

[@Sicwkskxkckckzd]

amazing video! btw are Chaldeans/Assyrians the same ?

[@thexxjunior]

mannnn cant wait for the whole video to drop

[@joeyzaza1945]

Good Podcast. Watching from Canada

[@Tommy.Bond007]

Sadam was raised in an Assyrian village. That is the only reason he had a soft spot for them, otherwise he would have killed them all

[@aleeftulawie3503]

Well he didn't 😂.

[@LeviShawando]

he wasn't raised in an Assyrian village. he was raised in a _historically_ Assyrian village... Tikrit was originally Tagrita

[@desertboy1162]

@@LeviShawandothe people from Tikrit do have faint memory of their Christian past. Most of Tikrit converts to Sunni Islam in the 11th century. That said some are also Bedouin origins. Iraq was literally populated by Bedouins and Iranians following the Mongol invasion.

[@Kurdedunaysiri]

How can Saddam be an Arab nationalist who wanted to demolish all borders between Arab countries and tell Kurds and Assyrians to be and feel “Iraqi” ? As a Kurd I believe that we need at least an autonomous Assyria in Ninova Plains and Dohuk Province and maybe in other regions of Ninova Province.

[@FreedomYT1986]

Who is the guy Emmanuel is interviewing? What's his name?

[@Eisho.G]

They taught us English starting from grade 5 primary school.

[@christofferraby4712]

Very interesting.

[@christopherm7755]

Great, informative video. Just one correction at the 9:20 point. The Ba’ath Party was a socialist party but it certainly wasn’t “Communist.” That’s a key distinction. Saddam vilified the Communist Party and purged them early on in his rule. He certainly accepted help from the USSR but he was no Soviet patron and shrewdly played off the Americans against the Soviets in the 80s during the war with Iran. And although he was Ba’athist, his version differed from the pan-Arab Ba’athism of Assad in Syria who believed all Arabs should be united into one confederation (in fact, Syria briefly joined with Egypt and formed a union state known as the United Arab Republic, and Saddam’s chess move in ‘79 to force the resignation of Bakr to become Iraq’s President was largely motivated by fears that Iraq would sway too far into the Syrian Baathist orbit and join an Arab union). Saddam, although nominally pan Arab, was much more of an Iraqi nationalist than anything else.

[@conquer6347]

9:14 Just would like to say the Ba’ath party is not communist it is socialist

[@samkev5246]

Kamal Hana's family were compensated with alot of money by Saddam

[@lora1757]

Tariq Aziz was a Chaldean Catholic and the right hand of Saddam.

[@dongiyo6357]

This guy is lying. We spoke English freely in Iraq.

[@rrikperhd7025]

Both of you guys are full of bs. There are so many mistakes in this video that I dont even know where to begin: First of all the Baath party was not communist. Saddam hated communism and he actually had a lot of them executed. However the Baath party was Nationalist and "Socialist", one could argue that Saddams baathism was a form of arab national socialism (Nazi). Secondly. You are speaking as if Kurds just turned against Saddam because they are oppurtunists and traitors and that Saddam had no problem with the kurds. You could not be more wrong in this. Saddam started his arabization policies in the 1970s. At the time when he was vice president. He kicked kurds out from their cities such as Kirkuk, and he replaced them with Arabs from the south. This is the reason why kurds sided with Iran Thirdly to understand the reason christians had good relations with Saddam one must look at the dynamics of Iraqi society and Middle east. Christian minorities have always sided with dictators in the ME, not only with Saddam but they also supported Mobarak in Egypt and Assad in Syria. Thats because christians have always been small in numbers compared to the muslims in these countries Iraq, Syria and Egypt. They dont have a choice but to side with the dictators. In return the dictators gave them both money and safety from radical islamists

[@rrikperhd7025]

And I also want to add something very important. Saddam, Assad and Mobarak were all secular dictators. They had nothing against christians, neither did they view them as a threat since christians are so small in number.

[@R2d2..]

They lied the entire time… Saddam was an Arab Nazi like you said. He didn’t allow Kurds to speak their language. He wanted to Arabize them and went so far that he literally gassed them … Mass graves full of civilians including children. And Christians were treated well in the beginning, but they weren’t Arab enough in Saddam Hussein’s and other Arabs eyes overtime. They also went through persecution and oppression. The longer he ruled and the longer he could use his power, the worse the treatment got. I am so shocked how none of them know about this.

[@R2d2..]

⁠@@rrikperhd7025 Christian faced persecution and bad treatment also under Saddam Hussein. Not directly at the beginning, but later. There were church burnings, attacks, including attacks on Christian children. A lot of them committed by the government itself, and Christians couldn’t speak up about it. Christians were also displaced and forced to leave their homes or areas because of Arabization. This often lead to poverty, or even them losing their lives. The same goes for the other dictators. Under Mobarak, Christians were even discriminated against when it came to education. And violence overall has always been an issue. I will never understand people who stand behind such regimes.

[@desertboy1162]

The guy who is speaking is a Kurd himself. Kurds always wanted a state and had war with the Iraqi state long before Saddam. For example they had wars with Abdel Karim Qassim who was partly Shia Kurd Fayli. Plus the Shah of Iran had supported Kurdish attacks on Iraq, in order to stop this Saddam made an agreement with the Shah for the shatt al-Arab. That’s also not true Sunni Arabs were never relocated to the North, in fact they were always a significant part of northern Iraq. Shia Arabs were imported from the south, is true. Kirkuk for example is historically a Turkmen city that had a significant Sunni Arab population. You can’t say the Arabs came from south when northern Iraqi Arabs speak a different dialect than southern Iraqis, and it’s not even mutually intelligible.

[@desertboy1162]

Yes the Baathist party was socialist but it never was nazi like. Nor was it Arab supremacist or sectarian. Kurds and Turkmens can join the party If they desired. The vice president Taha Ramadan Yassin is a Kurd for example. What he said is mostly true you were only attacked if you threatened the Baathist regime. Shia Islamism became a threat to Baathism so he cracked hard on them.

[@albertarthurparsnips5141]

He turned to conservative Sunni Islam in the last decade or so. Rhetorically, very much so. Not just pronouncements, symbolism , but even policy to a degree. There was even a copy of the Koran on display in Baghdad printed ( apparently ) with Saddam’s own blood. I wonder what happened to that book ?….

[@jaff3760]

I keep telling my assyrian friends wtf happened to ur empire. Y’all were there before anyone else

[@karamp242]

Kurds are iranic people basically ancient Medes

[@baveahmed6616]

true

[@dmx7329]

ancient Manneans

[@joeb5080]

2:46 had *given.* not "had gave". Past simple: I gave Past perfect: I had *given* Present perfect: I have *given* When to use: Past perfect should only be used as a preceding past action before another past action. Example: I had given the money to the cashier when the register stopped working. Otherwise, just use the past simple: I gave the money to the cashier. Similarly, the present perfect is used to describe a preceding past action relevant to a present action. Example: I have (or I've) taken the kids to the zoo many times, but this is our first visit to the Africa exhibit. Otherwise, just use the past simple: I took the kids to the zoo many times over the summer.

[@username1235400]

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[@Beth-zalin]

Saddam was allied with barzani to take out the shia kurds and the Assyrians,,,, the gas in halabja murdered about 2000 Assyrians also, halabja was a mixed little town. This guy is maybe telling some truth but he exxagarat the role of the kurds and minimizes the role of Assyrians,,,,, Assyrians sought independence and was much closer to independence than kurds,,, when the brittish betrayed us the kurds was as iraqis as the other iraqis,,,, kurds wasnt even a people to count in the -20’s. Even after the Assyrian genocide the Assyrians was a larger people than kurds in numbers

[@kushmessiahjaj5665]

Im sorry but this is so wrong u dont ask a kurd how the assyrians lived and were treated why would u get an adult who lived during that time ....and one of the pictures u showed is my unlces brother may he rest in peace

[@Alindgismail]

Im kurd n its all a lie, my parents told me if they spoke kurdish theyd be buried alive

[@Ze_pope]

thats a lie lmfao, Kurds were given state protection, kurdish schools had kurdish textbooks, and the TV in northern iraq was all in kurdish, the kurdish even had there universitieres speak kurdish

[@desertboy1162]

@@Ze_popeSorani and even Kurdish holidays were celebrated before the relationship turned sower. Noruwz was even an official holiday at one point

[@Ze_pope]

@@desertboy1162 that just shows how well Saddam treated the kurds, these "kurdish iraqi" seperatists just want to divide iraq, we need real iraqi kurds,

[@desertboy1162]

@@Ze_pope there many Kurds who did not want to separate, it’s only few nationalist/racists among them. Kurds especially Iraqi Kurds had their linguistic and cultural rights respected more so than any other where Turkey, Iran and Syria did not. The relationship began to be very bitter after demands of separation and help the Iranian war effort not all.

[@desertboy1162]

@@Ze_pope the guy that’s being interviewed is a Kurd.