Russia Duma mulls outlawing denial of Greek, Assyrian genocides

December 19, 2015 By administrator

202638 A group of Socialist-Revolutionary deputies introduced a bill to Russia’s State Duma, seeking to criminalize public denial of genocide against the Greeks, Assyrians and Yezidi Kurds perpetrated between 1915 and 1922 in Turkey.

It is proposed to introduce a penalty of up to 200.000 rubles or a sentence of forced labor or imprisonment for up to three years.

According to one of the authors of the bill, head of the faction Just Russia Sergei Mironov, a bill on outlawing the denial of the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1922 is currently under consideration at the Duma.

“Our bill has a simple and obvious logic,” Mironov said. “Not only Armenians, but also representatives of other nations were affected by Turkey’s genocide of 1915-1922: millions of people fell victim, starved to death, lost their homeland. It is necessary to recognize the crimes of the Turkish regime to restore historical justice.”

On the Run From ISIS, Assyrian Christians Face a New Threat: Turkish Air Strikes

August 8, 2015 By administrator

by John Hayward

The Assyrian Christian community has already suffered greatly at the hands of ISIS, driven from their homes in the Nineveh Plain to find shelter in Iraqi Kurdistan. Human rights groups have already expressed concern about the dangerous conditions in these refugee camps, including brutal temperature extremes and supply shortages. Now the Assyrians face a new menace: Turkish bombs.

Turkey is carrying out a vigorous bombing campaign against Kurdish separatists of the PKK militia, which operates close to other Kurdish militia groups that have been protecting and sheltering the Assyrian Christians. The bishop of Duhok, Mgr. Rabban al-Qas, said Turkish airstrikes “are starting to cause fear,” not to mention “deaths, injuries, and destruction,” as reported by the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA).

“At night, from the village of Komane, we can see Turkish planes bomb the Kurdish mountains, where PKK fighters are hiding. Villagers and Christian refugees are scared,” said the bishop, who called for “direct international pressure on Ankara” to halt the Turkish air campaign. He also became the latest in a long series of regional observers to note that Turkey seems considerably more enthusiastic about blowing up Kurds than they are about keeping Islamic State forces from crossing their borders.

AINA notes that the president of the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, Masoud Barzani, has also called upon the Turks to halt the bombing and respect Iraq’s borders. Barzani further told the PKK to move its forces out of the region, saying “if they want war, they can do it on the other side of the border.”

On the bright side, al-Qas said the Assyrians were successfully moving into new homes and finding work, having accepted they will not be able to return to homes in Nineveh or Mosul any time soon. He credited Catholic groups for “providing material support and technical assistance, knowledge, and experience.”

The bishop expressed some displeasure with groups that encourage Assyrian Christians to flee the region entirely and move overseas, accusing such groups of making money by exploiting the fears of refugees. However, AINA also carried an op-ed on Friday urging Assyrians to consider permanently relocating out of the Middle East en masse.

“Interviews with the displaced Assyrians reveal while some want to return to their homes and villages, the majority want to emigrate to Europe, the United States and Australia, where there are large Assyrian communities,” writes Peter BetBasoo. In fact, by his count, nearly half of the worldwide Assyrian population already lives in the West.

“Suffering centuries of persecution by Muslims (Arabs, Turks, Kurds and Iranians), the events of the past year have caused a fundamental psychological transformation of most of the Assyrian population,” BetBasoo asserts. “The low grade genocide since 2004 and the wanton destruction by ISIS in the last year in Iraq and Syria have caused most Assyrians to see the writing on the wall, and to acknowledge, consciously and subconsciously, that it is time to leave their birth land.”

“By all indications, the Middle East is a tinderbox ready to ignite, and Assyrians will suffer death and destruction in conflagrations in which they have no national interest or stake. Worse, they will be forced to fight on both sides and to kill each other for a cause that is not theirs,” he warns. “The safety of the Assyrian people requires a paradigm shift.”

Syria Kurds liberate 14 Assyrian Christian villages

May 27, 2015 By administrator

Assyrian Christians, who had fled the unrest in Syria, attend a mass at the Saint Georges Assyrian Church in Jdeideh

Kurdish forces in Syria have managed to take control of 14 Assyrian Christian villages that had been held by the Takfiri ISIL terrorists since February.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday that the Kurdish fighters engaged the terrorists in a ten-day operation to liberate the villages.

The terrorists in February attacked a number of Assyrian Christian villages along the Khabur River in the northeastern province of Hasakah. They also kidnapped hundreds of Assyrians. Reports say 210 hostages are still held by the terror group.

The ISIL raid forced thousands of Christians from their homes.

ISIL, abductions and ransom

Meanwhile, Osama Edward, the head of the Sweden-based Assyrian Network for Human Rights, said photos from the region showed a massive destruction of houses and churches in the liberated villages.

“Most people are afraid to return because they fear that ISIL booby-trapped their houses before fleeing,” he said.

In May, the Assyrian network said ISIL had demanded USD 22 million in ransom for the release of over 200 Assyrians abducted in Hasakah.

Assyrians account for about 2.5 percent of Syria’s 1.2 million Christians. They come from one of the oldest Christian communities in the world. Assyrians inhabit 35 villages in Hasakah, all of which are now under the control of the Kurdish fighters or Syria’s government forces.

No boundaries to ISIL atrocities

The Takfiri ISIL terrorists, with recruits from several Western countries, control parts of Syria and Iraq.

They have been engaged in horrific acts of violence against all ethnic and religious communities, ranging from public decapitations to crucifixions.

Armenian, Assyrian and formally recognizes the Pontic genocide

March 23, 2015 By administrator

National Assembly of Armenia,

National Assembly of Armenia, recognized as genocide massacre of Assyrians and Pontic experienced in the Ottoman Empire between 1915-1923 year decision taken today.

Republican Party of Armenia genocide bill, which was approved by parliament to present National Assembly of Armenia.

Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov said in a statement after the decision to Armenpress “Armenian parliament will not accept a new law every day. The adoption of this draft terms of Pontus and Assyrian brothers before our means conviction of all genocides in Armenia before parliament, “he said.

ISIL bulldozes ancient Iraqi city of Nimrud: Iraqi officials

March 5, 2015 By administrator

This file photo shows members of the Takfiri ISIL militant group at an undisclosed location in Iraq.

The Takfiri ISIL militants have “bulldozed” the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in the northern part of Iraq, Iraqi government officials say.

The Takfiri group “assaulted the historic city of Nimrud and bulldozed it with heavy vehicles,” read a post on an official Facebook page of the Iraqi Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on Thursday.

The ISIL group released a video on February 26 showing its militants using sledgehammers and drills to smash ancient statues at the Ninawa museum in Mosul, which put on display Assyrian artifacts dating back to the 9th century B.C.

The Takfiri terrorists have already razed to the ground a number of mosques in Syria and Iraq, many of them dating back to the early years of the Islamic civilization. The terrorists have also destroyed tombs belonging to revered Shia and Sunni figures.

ISIL terrorists, who have already been persecuting minorities and people of various faiths, are also targeting artifacts and museums.

Officials in Mosul said in early February that the ISIL had burnt a precious collection of historic books and manuscripts in the Ninawa museum. Tens of thousands of priceless documents, some of them registered with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), were destroyed in flames.

Urgent Message from Zeynep Tozduman human right activist? “Kidnapped Syrian, Assyrian women”

March 4, 2015 By administrator

Zeynep Tozduman

Dear friends, please go to www.change.org (see bellow the English version)

IRAK/HABUR’DAKİ SÜRYANİ SOYKIRIMINA VE KAÇIRILAN KADINLARIN BULUNMASI İÇİN BM KADIN ÖRGÜTÜNÜ VE DÜNYA KADIN ÖRGÜTLERİNİ GÖREVE ÇAĞIRIYORUZ !!!

”Birleşmiş Milletler (BM) barış ve güvenliğin korunması, sürdürülebilir kalkınmanın desteklenmesi ve insan haklarının güvence altına alınmasını içeren Türkiye dâhil 51 ülke tarafından dünya barışını, güvenliğini korumak ve uluslar arasında ekonomik, toplumsal ve kültürel bir iş birliği oluşturmak için kurulan uluslararası bir örgüttür. Silahsızlanma ve silah denetimi konusunda önerilerde bulunmak. Barış ve güvenliği etkileyecek görüşmeler yapmak, her konuda önerilerde bulunmak. Ülkeler arasındaki iyi ilişkileri bozucu sorunların, barışcıl yollarla çözümü için önerilerde bulunmak. Birleşmiş Milletler,

-Kadınlar ve kız çocuklarına karşı şiddeti sonlandırmak;
– Barış ve güvenlik sürecinin her alanına kadınların katılımını sağlamak en temel görevidir ”.

Dünya 8 Mart Dünya Emekçi Kadınlar gününe yaklaştığımız bu günlerde, Habur’da Süryani soykırımı yaşayan Süryani kadınlarının çığlıklarını görünür kılmak ve BM Kadın Örgütlerini ve uluslararası Kadın örgütlerini, biz aşağıda imzası bulunan kişi ve kurumlar olarak göreve çağırıyoruz.

23 Şubat 2014’de Irak / Habur’da İŞİD ( İsis ) terör örgütü; Asur/ Süryani/ Keldani ( Doğu Hristiyanları) halkına karşı, etno- dinsel- kültürel soykırım yapılmakta, yaklaşık 3000 insan yerinden, yurdundan edilerek 400 kadın, çoluk çocuk, yaşlı demeden İŞİD militanlarının elinde rehin olarak tutulmakta, bu halka ait binlerce yıllık tarihi eserleri dünyanın gözü önünde yıkılmaktadır. Hala kaçırılan Kadın ve çocuklardan bu güne değin bir haber alınamamıştır. 2014 Haziran ayında Şengal’de kaçırılan Ezidi kadınlarını Köle pazarlarında pazarlayan, fuhuş sektöründe kullanan İŞİD terör örgütü şimdi de Süryani kadınlarına aynı şeyi yaşatmadan BM Kadın Örgütlerini ve Dünya kadın örgütlerini imzaladıkları sözleşmeler doğrultusunda göreve çağırıyoruz.

Ayrıca, bu 8 Mart’ı tüm dünya kadın örgütleri olarak Soykırımlarda, katliamlarda hayatlarını kaybeden Süryani kadınlarına ve Özgecan şahsında Şiddete ve Tecavüze uğrayan tüm kadınlara ithaf edilmesini istiyoruz.

Bölgede İŞİD terörünü durdurmak, rehin alınan Süryani Kadınlarını sağ- salim teslim almak, kadın katliamlarını durdurmak ve bölgede kalıcı bir barışı sağlamak için BM Kadın örgütünü ve Dünya kadın örgütlerini göreve davet ediyoruz.

ENGLİSH VERSİON

IRAQ / THE ASSYRİAN GENOCİDE İN HABUR AND MISSED FOR THE PRESENCE OF WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS AND WORLD WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS THE UN WOMEN WE CALL A DUTY !!! ”

The United Nations (UN), the preservation of peace and security, sustainable development, the promotion and protection of human rights safeguarding containing the world peace by 51 countries, including Turkey, to protect the security and among nations economically, is an international organization established to create a social culturall cooperation.

Advising on disarmament and arms control. Peace and discussions will affect the security, advising on everything. Good relations between the countries disruptive problems, make suggestions for the solution by peaceful means.

United Nations, to end the violence against -Women and girls; – Ensure the participation of women in all areas of peace and security is the most basic task process’. World these days we approach the March 8 International Working Women’s day, in habur appear screams of Syriac genocide living Syrian women make to the UN Women’s Organization and international women’s organizations, we urge you to act as individuals and institutions who have signed below.

February 23, 2014 in Iraq / Habur Isidor (Isis), a terrorist organization; Assyrian / Syriac / Chaldean (Eastern Christians) against the people, ethno-religious-cultural genocide carried out, about 3,000 people displaced, 400 women by the dorm, children, is being held as a hostage in the hands of elderly Isidor militants, thousands of years of historical monuments in the world of this ring are collapsed into consideration. Still abducted women and children could not be news until this day.

2014 The markets in missed Ezidi women slave market in Sengal in June, Isidor terrorist organization uses in prostitution without dictating the same thing is now the Syrian Women UN Women Organization and we urge you to work in agreement with the direction they signed the world women’s organizations. In addition, in this March 8 women’s organizations all over the world as genocide in the massacre in Syrian women who lost their lives and Ozgecan person we want to be dedicated to all women subjected to violence and rape. Isidor stop terrorism in the region,

Syrian women to receive right- taken hostage unharmed, to stop the massacre of women and to ensure a lasting peace in the UN women’s organizations and women’s organizations in the world are invited to task.

Assyrian refugees begin streaming into Lebanon

March 3, 2015 By administrator

Assyrian refugees begin streaming into Lebanon

BEIRUT: More than a dozen Assyrian Christians fleeing an onslaught by ISIS in northeastern Syria have entered Lebanon since Monday night, a General Security official told The Daily Star.

Gen. Nabil Hannoun Tuesday also refuted allegations that the fleeing families had been blocked or prevented from crossing into Lebanon.

“There is the regular routine administrative procedures which they have to follow in order to enter Lebanon, but no blocking,” Hannoun said.

He said no Assyrian was stranded on the border Tuesday and that many have been allowed into the country Monday night.

Hannoun did not give a figure for how many Assyrians have crossed into Lebanon, but the state-run National News Agency said Tuesday that 17 entered last night.

Earlier Tuesday, security sources told The Daily Star that 23 Assyrian refugees fleeing the violence in Syria’s province of Hassakeh were waiting at the Masnaa’ crossing on Lebanon’s eastern border, to be given permission to enter the country.

The sources said a Lebanese Assyrian cleric has contacted General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, asking for his assistance in facilitating their entry. Hannoun could not verify those details, but denied that Lebanese authorities were denying entry to Assyrians refugees.

Lebanese officials have generally welcomed calls to allow Assyrians to enter Lebanon from Syria despite a months-old ban on accepting new refugees.

Free Patriotic Movement chief and MP Michel Aoun called on the Lebanese authorities to facilitate the entry of Assyrian Christians in a news conference Tuesday, warning that Christians are being systematically uprooted from the region.

“I implore the world’s conscience to help resolve the conflict which is threatening the existence of Christians,” Aoun said.

“We do not want [Christians] to take refuge in Europe or anywhere else… It is a felony to treat in that way the people who have lived in the Levant (for centuries). Today there is a systematic uprooting of Christians from the Orient,” he added.

Aoun, who made the comments after a meeting with a delegation of Christian Maronite archbishops, said a special committee will be set up to provide assistance to the displaced Assyrian families and facilitate their residence in Lebanon.

He urged the Lebanese administration to facilitate entry and residence paperwork, rather than blocking the fleeing families.

“History witnessed many instances of eradication of Christians (in the Levant) and today the tragedy is recurring through displacement,” Aoun added.

Around 220 Assyrians were abducted from their homes when ISIS militants seized 11 villages in the Hassakeh province in northeastern Syria two weeks ago. Thousands more have fled their homes to avoid capture.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 29 of the kidnapped were released, while others are to be tried by ISIS’ Sharia court.

– See more at: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Mar-03/289422-aoun-urges-lebanon-to-facilitate-assyrian-entry.ashx?utm_medium=email&utm_source=transactional&utm_campaign=Newsletter#sthash.ZxM3vHjh.dpuf

UN envoy in solidarity visit to Syria’s Assyrians

March 1, 2015 By administrator

DAMASCUS – Agence France-Presse

UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura (R)
AFP Photo

UN envoy Staffan de Mistura paid a surprise visit on March 1 to a church near war-wracked Syria’s capital in a show of solidarity with the country’s Christian minority targeted by jihadists.

An AFP photographer said de Mistura travelled in a two-car UN convoy to a Greek Catholic church in Jaramana, southeast of Damascus, and met with priest Toma Asitivo Kaka.

The church has been used as a place of refuge for Assyrian Christians fleeing the chaos of Iraq after the 2003 US-led invasion of that country.

His visit coincided with a mass of solidarity with the scores of Syrian Assyrians kidnapped by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Hassakeh province of northeast Syria.

Last week, ISIL kidnapped 220 Assyrians in the Tal Tamr area where the extremist Islamist group has seized control of 10 Christian villages, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Almost 5,000 people have since fled to Kurdish- and government-controlled areas.

The monitoring group reported that an ISIL “court” has ordered the release of 28 of the abducted Assyrians.

De Mistura, who left for Lebanon after visiting the church, on Saturday held talks in the Syrian capital to try to finalise a deal to freeze fighting in the war-ravaged second city of Aleppo.

He met Foreign Minister Walid Muallem and agreed to send a delegation from his Damascus office to Aleppo on a fact-finding mission, state news agency SANA said, without giving a date.

The Swedish-Italian diplomat “hopes to set in motion as soon as possible his project” to halt fighting in Aleppo for six weeks, said a member of his delegation.

He has met government officials and opposition chiefs in recent weeks to promote his plan for a temporary truce in Aleppo in order to move aid into the northern city.

Once Syria’s commercial hub, Aleppo has been devastated by fighting that began in mid-2012, and the city is now split between loyalist forces and rebels.

About 220,000 people have been killed in Syria since its conflict began in March 2011 with anti-government protests that spiralled into a multi-sided civil war drawing foreign jihadists.

Assyrian Community ‘At Risk of Extinction’ from Islamic State

February 26, 2015 By administrator

People from the Yezidi community flee from massacres by Islamic State forces towards the Syrian border. Syria’s Assyrian community fears a similar fate if nothing is done to stop the Islamic State. (Photo: Reuters)

HASAKAH, Syria (RFE/RL)—An Assyrian Christian organization has warned that Syria’s Assyrian community could face a mass killing and has called on the international community to intervene, after militants from the Islamic State (IS) group abducted Assyrian Christians from villages in Syria’s Hasakah Province.

Karam Dola, a member of the Assyrian Democratic Organization in Hasakah Province told Radio Free Iraq reporter Manar Abdulrazzaq on February 24 that militants had overran rural villages populated by Assyrian Christians at dawn on February 23.

“In Tel Hormuz there were not many families, but there were more than 13 people, elderly men, women and children who were kidnapped,” Dola said.

According to Dola, up to 90 people from the village of Tel Shamiram are also considered missing.

“They were unable to escape when [the IS group] overran the area at dawn,” Dola added.

The British-based group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which monitors the violence in Syria via a network of contacts, also reported that at least 90 Assyrian Christians had been abducted by militants in Tel Shamiram and Tel Hormuz.

Moreover, SOHR said that 14 Islamic State militants had been killed in U.S.-led air strikes east of the town of Tel Hamis in Hasakah.

Dola said that on February 24, 34 villages on the banks of the Khabur River in Hasakah province had been evacuated and residents moved to Hasakah town or to the town of Qamishli.

The Assyrian community in Syria is extremely concerned about the situation, according to Dola, who told Radio Free Iraq that there are about 600 Assyrian families in Hasakah province.

“We in the Assyrian Democratic Organization have sent out a distress call to the international community and to all national forces to immediately intervene and prevent the occurrence of [the] expected massacre,” Dola said.

Dola warned that the Assyrian community in Syria is “at risk of extinction.”

According to the pro-opposition Step News Agency, the Islamic State group’s military commander in Syria, the Georgian-born ethnic Chechen Kist Umar Shishani, is leading the offensive in Hasakah. That news, which is plausible based on previous offensives in northern Syria, has not been independently reported on pro-Islamic State Russian-language social media.

NSW Ethnic leaders demand sacking of Multicultural NSW boss Hakan Harman over ‘airbrushing’ of war atrocities

February 16, 2015 By administrator

By Rick Feneley

Turks Vandalised: The Assyrian Genocide Memorial at Bonnyrigg.

Ethnic community leaders are demanding the resignation or sacking of their most senior representative in the NSW government, claiming he pushed the agenda of his Turkish homeland to resist public memorials for genocides by the former Ottoman Empire as well as Japan’s war crimes and other atrocities. Report SMH

Hakan Harman is under intense pressure to quit as chief executive of Multicultural NSW, just seven months after his predecessor, Vic Alhadeff, resigned over a perceived conflict of interest when he defended Israel’s right to strike Gaza as a defence against Palestinian militants.

Armenian, Greek, Cypriot, Korean and Assyrian leaders have united to sign a statement saying Mr Harman’s position is untenable after he issued guidelines to local governments – without first telling his minister, Victor Dominello – that they should be careful not “assign blame” when considering memorials or public monuments to “contentious” historical events.

Mr Dominello forced Mr Harman to withdraw the guidelines when he was alerted by the aggrieved community leaders. And Mr Harman told Fairfax Media on Sunday: “In hindsight, I made an error of judgement by not consulting more widely,” but he said his door was open to his critics so they could work together on “what unites people as Australians”.

The signatories say Mr Harman’s unilateral action makes him unsuitable to lead an agency with a charter “to promote and advance community harmony”.

In 1997, the NSW Legislative Assembly unanimously acknowledged the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1922 and it erected its own garden memorial the next year. The monument includes the parliament’s resolution that it “condemns and rejects all attempts to deny or distort the historical truth” about this and other genocides of the 20^th century.

assured her Turkish counterpart last year that the federal government does not recognise the “tragic events” as genocide.

Armenian Australians plan to erect another memorial in Willoughby when they mark the centenary of the genocide on April 24 this year – the day before Anzac Day, when Australia will also commemorate 100 years since the bloody landing at Gallipoli in Turkey.

Korean and Chinese Australians also have plans for a statue called Three Sisters in Strathfield to pay respect to 200,00

Minister for Citizenship Victor Dominello (left), pictured with NSW Premier Mike Baird, forced the head of Multicultural NSW to withdraw divisive guidelines regarding public memorials. Photo: Dominic Lorrimer

Turkish Hakan-Harman

Under pressure: Hakan Harman, chief executive of Multicultural NSW.

Vandalised: The Assyrian Genocide Memorial at Bonnyrigg. Photo: Supplied

But the Foreign Affairs Minister, Julie Bishop, assured her Turkish counterpart last year that the federal government does not recognise the “tragic events” as genocide.

Korean and Chinese Australians also have plans for a statue called Three Sisters in Strathfield to pay respect to 200,000 so-called “comfort women” – sex slaves abused by Japanese soldiers during World War II.

“We do not believe that it is appropriate for government, at any level in Australia, to ‘weigh in’ on those historical matters,” the letter said, arguing it could jeopardise community harmony.

On February 3 this year, the Turkish alliance issued a press release applauding Multicultural NSW for its guidelines and pointedly criticising Mr Dominello and Prime Minister Tony Abbott for having attended the unveiling of memorials such as the “so-called” Assyrian Genocide Memorial at Bonnyrigg. (That memorial was vandalised with graffiti – “f— Assyrian dogs” – soon after its opening in 2010.)

In a newsletter last year, the Turkish alliance admitted that donors’ pledges had not been forthcoming, so: “We are currently running on $0 and are entirely reliant on campaign specific assistance from the consulate.”

The signatories against Mr Harman said Multicultural NSW could not be “led by an individual who engages in unilateral action – in this case, by adopting divisive guidelines that were drafted by a body backed by a foreign government”.

Some of the leaders told Fairfax Media they regarded Mr Harman’s “conflict of interest” to be worse than that of Mr Alhadeff, who had continued to act as chief executive of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies while he headed the Community Relations Commission, recently renamed Multicultural NSW. His dual roles, they said, had at least been transparent.

They feared stopping the construction of monuments was an attempt to “airbrush” war atrocities.

While the board of deputies was not a signatory to their protest, its president, Jeremy Spinak, thanked Mr Dominello “for his swift action in quashing these guidelines which, if implemented, would have caused significant division and disharmony. It is concerning that policy in such an important and sensitive area could have been shaped in this manner”.

Stepan Kerkyasharian, a long-serving head of the CRC, and an Armenian Australian, did not sign the document either but said he was saddened that “the processes followed by the commission have created disharmony, reflecting on its reputation”.

“The apparent selective consultation by the commission raises serious ethical questions which need to be addressed by the government,” he said. “The commission is duty-bound not only to be impartial, inclusive and transparent but also be seen to be so.”

A spokesman for Mr Dominello said he had “asked Mr Harman to work with the relevant organisations to address their concerns”. Mr Harman said he welcomed that opportunity and “we exist to build peace and harmony in the community”.

The signatories to the protest letter were the Korean Society of Sydney, the Assyrian Universal Alliance, the Australian Hellenic Council of NSW, the Greek Orthodox Community of NSW, the Cyprus Community of NSW and the Armenian National Committee of Australia.

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