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gulfnews.com
October 28, 2017
2002 - At least 60 people died and scores were missing after a huge fire swept through an office block heavily populated by foreign companies in Vietnam's southern hub of Ho Chi Minh City. Firefighters struggled for five hours to put out the blaze at the Saigon International Trade Centre in District One, theÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
October 11, 2017
Actually, in 'post 1920 Iraq' as well in previous periods the Kurds lived almost like every other Iraqi community; and from their ranks rose prominent figures since the Independence such as Jalal Baban, Jamal Baban, General Bakr Sidqi, Musleheddin Naqshbandi, and Ahmad Mukhtar Baban …Iraq's lastÃâà...
The Nation.
September 21, 2016
Badr al-Din Arudaki, Writer, translator. Burhan Ghalioun, Writer, academic. Bakr Sidqi, Writer, journalist. Tammam Hunaydi, Poet. Jamal Said, Writer. Jamil Nahra, Novelist. Jihad Yaziji, Economist. Hazem Kamal al-Din. Hazem Nahar, Writer. Hizam Zohur Uday, Writer, journalist. Husam al-Saad, Academic.
In Defense of Marxism
July 6, 2016
General Bakr Sidqi - Photo: Public DomainOn 29th October 1936 Iraq was plunged into a period of disequilibrium when armed regiments loyal to the nationalist officer, General Bakr Sidqi, entered Baghdad. Presented with a fait acompli, the king, who had nationalist inclinations of his own, accepted Sidqi'sÃâà...
Rudaw
August 21, 2013
The massacre was ordered in 1933 by the Iraqi government under King Faysal, and conducted by a Kurdish general, Bakr Sidqi. It did not only hit Semile but dozens of other Assyrian villages in the region between Duhok and Zakho. The death toll was officially put at 600, but unofficially at 3,000. ThousandsÃâà...
AINA
August 12, 2013
(AINA) -- On August 7 Assyrians worldwide celebrated the 80th anniversary of the Simmele massacre, including in Ankawa, within the Kurdish autonomous region in north Iraq. President Massoud Barzani of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) sent a letter of support to the Assyrians, but in his letterÃâà...
UNPO
August 9, 2013
On 7 August 1933, Iraqi forces led by General Bakr Sidqi raided and looted the villages Zakho and Duhok before finally closing in on Simmele, which had become a refuge for fleeing Assyrians from the neighboring villages. Over 3,000 Assyrians were killed during these attacks. 7 August has hence beenÃâà...
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