By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST and the ASSIST News Service
SYRIA (ANS – March 28, 2015)
-- On February 23, 2015, fighters from Islamic State, also known as
ISIS, attacked the 35 Assyrian villages on the Khabur River in the
Hassaka province in northeast Syria.Nine Assyrian fighters died defending their villages in the initial attacks and there are reports that Islamic State had executed at least 12 Assyrian fighters who were captured, two of them women.
According to the Assyrian International News Agency (http://www.aina.org), between 262 and 373 Assyrians were captured by the terror group, and 23 have been released but the rest remain in captivity. Islamic State published a video of one of the captives, a man, purportedly converting to Islam.
“The majority of the Assyrians were captured from Tel Shamiran, Tel Hurmiz, Tel Goran and Tel Jazira,” said AINA.“In 2006 an Assyrian filmmaker from Armenia, Lina Yakubova, visited the 35 Assyrian villages on the Khabur and made a documentary film about them.
“Lina Yakubova died in 2011 tragically and unexpectedly at the age of 35 from undiagnosed liver cancer. Her film, titled ‘Ancestral Home’, was in three parts, and part two was on the Assyrian villages in Khabur.
The entire Assyrian population of these 35 villages, nearly 3,000, has fled. The villages are now abandoned or occupied by Islamic State (ISIS).
“The Assyrians are not expected to return to these
villages.
Thus, the Assyrian presence in that area has been eradicated. Lina
Yakubova's documentary is a valuable record of a now destroyed
community.”To see a video posted as a tribute to Lina that includes the documentary, please go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcz3UyQoH-g
Photo captions: 2) Children from the documentary. 2) An elderly woman sings an old Assyrian song in the film. 3) Children pictured in the documentary.
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