Sources: Assyrian self-government

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  Assyrian Democratic Movement (Wikipedia) link

  General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation, on the Assyrian Democratic Movement's founding on 12 April 1979 and its later formation of the Nineveh Plain Protection Units.

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  Assyrian war of independence (Wikipedia) link

  General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation, on Patriarch Mar Shimun XXI Eshai's petitions to the League of Nations in 1932 for an autonomous Assyrian homeland within Iraq, and the Assyrian community's options and treatment in the lead-up to the 1933 Simele massacre.

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  ISIS overtakes Iraq's largest Christian city (CNN) link

  Contemporaneous journalistic reporting on the Islamic State's 6-7 August 2014 capture of Qaraqosh and other Nineveh Plain towns, and the resulting displacement of over 120,000 Assyrian and other Christians.

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  Nineveh Plain Protection Units (Wikipedia) link

  General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation, on the formation of the NPU as the Assyrian Democratic Movement's armed wing following the Islamic State's capture of Mosul on 4 June 2014, with its formal announcement on 25 November 2014.

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  Number of Christian Assyrians abducted by ISIS rises to at least 220 (CBC News) link

  Contemporaneous journalistic reporting on the Islamic State's attack on Assyrian villages along the Khabour River in Syria's Al-Hasakah Province beginning around 23 February 2015, and the resulting abductions and displacement; casualty and abduction figures are reported here as figures from the sources cited, not independently verified totals.

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  Simele massacre (Wikipedia) link

  General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation rather than primary Iraqi or League of Nations archival records, on the August 1933 massacre of Assyrians in and around Simele, its reported death toll (approximately 3,000 across around 63 villages), and its influence on Raphael Lemkin's coining of the term "genocide."

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