Chaldo Assyrians

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Chaldo-Assyrians is a controversial term for the Christian - Assyrian or Aramaic "original people" of the Syro - Mesopotamian region.

After the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the term Chaldo-Assyrian was created in the Iraqi constitution as a collective term for those Christian minorities in Iraq who either speak a dialect of Aramaic ( Syriac ) or whose ancestors spoke such a dialect and whose descendants who are alive today partly speak a language were arabized.

With this unifying name, after the genocide of the Assyrians and Arameans at the peace conference in Paris in 1920 , this people demanded their rights to self-determination in their original settlement areas.

In the current Iraqi constitution, the Chaldo Assyrians are recognized as a minority with their language, but their national rights as a people are not thereby granted. You have several parties in Iraq and several exile and cultural organizations in Europe and the USA.

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  2. A report on the situation of the Chaldo Assyrians apd.media