Assyrian Martyrs Day
Assyrian Martyrs Day is held on August 7. Assyrian community. This event in the first decade of the month August is annual. 
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In the 1970s, Assyrians began to celebrate August 7th as Assyrian Martyrs' Day. This day was chosen because in August of 1933, military forces from the newly-founded country of Iraq massacred approximately 3,000 Assyrians in Simele, Iraq. Although this observance is of a comparatively recent date, it has gained widespread acceptance among the Assyrian people. And this is justly so. Every nation needs to have a day set aside for the remembrance of those who gave their lives for the preservation of their cultural and ethnic identity. This is especially important for the Assyrian Nation; for no other people (as the following pages will show) have given so many martyrs in the defense of their national and ethnic rights.
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