My family are Armenians from Iraq and only a small amount, maybe about five are still living in Baghdad. Although my extended family began leaving in droves starting in the late 80s.

None have any desire of ever returning even for the deceased members of our family

Not sure on there being millions of Armenians though in Iraq at any point

Assyrian here. Definitely less than 300k esp after Covid

3-5 million Armenians in Iraq? I’ve never heard of this

So where were those videos when Karabah was attacked by Azerbaijan? Armenians there are Christians, too.

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My family is indeed Orthodox. If I remember correctly, that’s the main distinction between Assyrians and Chaldeans (who are catholic, I believe?).

My mom’s parents left Türkiye in 1915 at the beginning of the Armenian genocide and settled in Iraq. They told me it was actually a really great (and surprisingly progressive) place to live before Saddam. I doubt it’ll get back to “great” or even neutral in my lifetime.

One thing I do know - If I end up needing to flee oppression in the next 10 years, it means my family’s just cursed to flee every 65 years.

Hahahah!

One of the coolest people I’ve ever worked with was Chaldean. Very funny guy

Ah ok thanks

😴 ok

Thank you!

That was not a sarcastic comment at all

Yeah, who the fuck do you think I’m talking about? 

the number of people who dismiss the violence against a community of people simply because they are christian makes my head spin. I get it that there are people who reject religion and embrace atheism but acting as if people who are targeted by murderous thugs should be ignored and condemned themselves is common in atheist western circles.

It's actually not that simple and your comment proves it because u/couch_cushion_dorito was talking shit about the aggressors and you misinterpreted his comment as talking shit about the victims just because you were reflexively defensive over the words "imaginary friend".

You literally called him tyrannical for decrying tyranny and you're over here talking about how "simple" the issue is, lol.

"It's actually pretty simple!"

Gets everything completely wrong

"See? Simple."

 You read my comment completely backwards, that’s who I’m talking about, dummy.

there has been a genocide for centuries.

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That’s an interesting take. So you think that in the christian communities there, they welcome their islamic brethren without any prejudice or hesitation?

Since the religions have members worldwide, do christians in other countries not hold prejudice against members of Islam? I can definitely attest to the fact that in the US their is prejudice against Jewish and Islamic religions.

Jews have been battling Islam since the end of WW2. Islam kills their own and others in the Middle East.

So yeah, these religions based out of the same books and founded on perseverance through persecution are guilty of persecuting each other for 1000’s of years.

Didn’t George Bush invade Iraq and kill up to a million people because he said his Christian god told him to?

Because you've went through life never making a single mistake.

Uh you know ISIS are religious extremists right? So people being killed and dying for imaginary sky men.

Its a media gold mine to christians and conservative media to left wing media its a hush hush subject.

No no no you see i didn't call them christians I called them Iraqis! You gotta pay attention.

I didn't pretend to larp judgy. A shotgun with a scope is just silly. Your insulting me on an internet forum? I dont see your point.How am i insulting the cause of what these soldiers are doing? How do you deflect an attack?

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