7 August 1933 (1933-08-07) – 11 August 1933 (1933-08-11)
Attack type
Summary executions, mass murder, looting
Deaths
Several hundred (British estimate)[4][5][6] 3,000–6,000 (Assyrian estimate)
Victim
Assyrians
Perpetrators
Royal Iraqi Army (led by Bakr Sidqi, Arab and Kurdish tribes[7]
The Simele massacre (Arabic: مذبحة سميل, romanized: maḏbaḥat Simīl), also known as the Assyrian affair,[8] was committed by the Kingdom of Iraq, led by Bakr Sidqi, during a campaign systematically targeting the Assyrians in and around Simele in August 1933.
The number of deaths was estimated by British officials at 600.[5] Some Assyrian estimates are higher positing that as many as 6,000 were killed and over 100 Assyrian villages were destroyed and looted.[9][10]
^"عضوة الكونغرس الامريكي جان شاكوسكي تصدر بيانا في ذكرى مذبحة سميل التي تعرض لها شعبنا عام 1933". Zowaa (in Arabic). 8 August 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
^"Sapra Suryaya" (PDF).
^"Search Entry". assyrianlanguages.org. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
^Sykes, Percy (1934). "A summary of the history of the Assyrians in 'Iraq, 1918–1933". Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society. 21 (2): 255–268. doi:10.1080/03068373408725306. "At other villages batches of men were killed, the total number aggregating 550."
^ abZubaida 2000: "The total number of Assyrian victims of these events was estimated by British officials at about 600, but Assyrian sources put it at several thousand."
^Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie (2019). "The Assyrians in World War One and the 1933 Massacre: New Discoveries in the Rsaa Archives". Asian Affairs. 50 (4): 569–587. doi:10.1080/03068374.2019.1672427. S2CID 211652462. "Nearly 1,000 men, women and children were killed by Iraqi armed forces – and their villages were looted by Kurdish tribesmen."
^Cite error: The named reference Stafford168 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Levene 1999, p. 3.
^Benjamen, Alda (2022). Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Space. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-108-83879-5.
^Donabed, Sargon (2010). Iraq and the Assyrian Unimagining: Illuminating Scaled Suffering and a Hierarchy of Genocide from Simele to Anfal. University of Toronto. pp. 69–72.
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