The National Assembly recognized on Monday the genocide suffered by this Eastern Christian community. From 1915 to 1918, some 250,000 Assyro-Chaldeans were massacred by the Ottomans.
On Monday, the National Assembly put an end to more than a century of forgetting and ignorance by adopting the proposed resolution “concerning the recognition and condemnation of the persecution of the Assyro-Chaldeans of 1915 as genocide”. A little over a year after the Senate opened the way by voting on a similar text in February 2023.
In the stands, many people present could savor a success to which they largely contributed. At the forefront of which are the representatives of the historical associations of this community present in France for decades, the Association of Assyro-Chaldeans of France (AACF) and the Union of Assyro-Chaldeans of France (UACF).
But also the members of the Syriac Union of Europe or even François Pupponi, former deputy of Val d’Oise and mayor of Sarcelles, where the community is very established. Without naturally forgetting the historian Joseph Yacoub, accompanied by his wife Claire, whose work has been praised by several parliamentarians…
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