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Aramean people: Aramean people (not to be confused with ‘Armenians’) speak Aramaic, the language spoken by Abraham, Moses and Jesus. They are the indigenous people of what was called in ancient times Aram- Nahrin, in our days it is called ‘Mesopotamia’. Some Arameans today identify themselves with “Assyrians”, because of the spiritual colonial hate generating activities of the Western missionaries and diplomats in the Middle-East in 16th and 19th centuries. Other Arameans became known as “Chaldeans”. However all of them are Arameans. Peaceful demonstration on Sunday 28th of February 2010 by the Aramean Orthodox and Catholics in Baghdeda (Qaraqosh), northern Iraq.
On Sunday 28th of February 2010 a peaceful demonstration was organized in the Aramean village Baghdeda (Qaraqosh), northern Iraq to ask for the fragile situation of the Arameans of Mosul. The demonstration was organized by the Aramean Orthodox and Catholics of Qaraqosh which was participated by the West- Aramean Syrian Orthodox bishop Saliba Shamoun and the West- Aramean Syrian Catholic bishop Circis Qasmoussa accompanied by their priests, deacons, nuns and monks. Bishop Qasmoussa delivered a speech in which he asked the attention for the situation of the Arameans of Mosul. The demonstration was closed with a prayer and songs in Aramaic.
Though it is unknown how many Arameans exactly have been driven out of Mosul, yet according to an Aramean bishop in northern Iraq we spoke on Sunday 28th of February 2010, they estimate around 150 families left Mosul for relatively more safe areas. These 150 families are the East- Aramean Chaldeans, Est- Aramean Assyrians, West- Aramean Syrian Orthodox and West- Aramean Syrian Catholics. The escaped Arameans from Mosul have found shelter in the outlying monasteries and villages where they receive help from family and friends. Few Aramean families escaped to Baghdad.
The Arameans of Iraq
Before the war of 2003, there were around 800.000 Arameans in Iraq. Probably more than half of them have left the country. The attacks on their churches and leaders chased the Arameans out of Iraq.
The spiritual/political colonial Western intervention and machinations in the Middle-East divided the Arameans in various denominations, namely:
The terms “East- “ and “West- Arameans” go back to the time of early Christianity where the Aramean indigenous nation was geographically termed as such. Roughly speaking the Euphrates River was the border. Those Arameans living Eastern of Euphrates, thus living in Persia, were termed “East- Arameans” and those living Western of Euphrates, thus in Roman Empire, were called “Western- Arameans”. The designations “Chaldeans” and “Assyrians” for the eastern Arameans go back to the Western colonial activities of the 16th (France + Catholic missionaries) and 19th (Great Britain + Anglican missionaries) centuries. The ecclesiastical and political Western powers closely worked together and setup camps in Turkey, Iraq, and Iran where the Aramean children were “educated” through which they were completely uprooted from their Aramean origin. They thereby planted a horrible form of fanaticism in their hearts which caused them to display an immense aversion to their Aramean origin.
In the year 1553 the Western Catholic missionaries together with France brainwashed a part of the East- Aramean clergy by means of bribery to call themselves “Chaldeans” with the result that the Aramaic language became known as “Chaldean” language and a part of the Aramean nation became known as “Chaldean” nation in some parts of the Western literature, the first attack on the Aramean heritage.
As a result of mutual hatred and competition between the Western Catholics and Protestants, in the late 19th century the same process was repeated, this time by the Anglican missionaries and Great Britain, and the other part of the East- Aramean “Nestorian” tribes of Hakkari (bordering Turkey and Iraq) and Urmia (Iran) to call themselves "Assyrians"- a term which was used purely geographically and only applied to the "Nestorians". The result was that Aramaic became known as “Assyrian” language and the Aramean nation as the “Assyrian” nation- this was the second and more severe attack on the Aramean heritage- a kind of spiritual genocide.
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