Dated events associated with this case. Each event is a shared record: the same event appears identically wherever it is relevant.
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Iraqi government forces killed thousands of Assyrians shortly after the League of Nations declined to grant the community autonomy, a massacre later cited as directly influencing the coining of the term "genocide."
Significance here: The defining early trauma of modern Assyrian political identity in Iraq, following directly from the failure of the 1932 autonomy petition.
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The Assyrian Democratic Movement was founded, later becoming the leading Assyrian political organization in Iraq and the parent of the Nineveh Plain Protection Units.
Significance here: The founding of the principal modern Assyrian political organization advocating for self-government in Iraq.
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The Islamic State's capture of Qaraqosh and other Assyrian towns displaced over 120,000 Christians and prompted the formation of an Assyrian self-defence militia.
Significance here: A defining recent episode combining mass displacement of Assyrians from their historical Nineveh Plain communities with the community's own armed self-organization in response.
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Islamic State forces attacked dozens of Assyrian villages in northeastern Syria, abducting hundreds of Christians.
Significance here: A parallel episode in Syria to the Nineveh Plain exodus, extending the pattern of Islamic State attacks on Assyrian communities across the border.
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