FROM THE BIOGRAPHY OF OUR BRAVE ASSYRIANS IN HABBANYIA
This site is dedicated to our brave Assyrian Levies served in the British Army in Habbanyia , the site is still under construction and you are invited to send any related material to Albert@nineveh.com
Also read :
1- Reflections on R.A.F.Habbaniya By: Rev. Dr. Michael G.
Cole
2- THE LAST DAY OF THE ASSYRIAN LEVIES
3-
The Day Mam
Nona Met Tariq Aziz
*May 2nd 1941 (6691): 15,000 soldiers of Iraqi cowered army with Arab tribesmen from Tikrit Samara,Shemer and Delaim had besieged the city of Habbanyia (61 Km northwest of Baghdad).
They had dug trenches and were determined on destroying the Assyrians and taking their properties and possessions. Assyrians painfully remembered the massacre of 1933 in Simele and the surrounding villages and pledged "Never Again!". They remembered the raping and pillaging upon defenseless Assyrian villagers.
The
Assyrians were quite fearful that the Iraqi army had, yet again, plotted to carry out
another evil massacre of Assyrian men, women, and children. 500 Assyrian soldiers fighting
as a battalion of the Levies vigorously repulsed the Iraqi attack. With fresh memories of
the Simele massacre, the heroic Assyrian fighters not only defended Habbanyia
from demise but forced the Iraqi army to retreat all the way to Faluja, some 18 Km to the
south.
At that time Rashid 'ali Al-Gilany the prime Minster flew out the country, all the cabinet
member sent their families out of the country (to Turkey) at the first day of the fight
then they flew.
The
British not knowing which way the fight end, they put the monarch family in a boat and
pushed them in the sea south of Basrah waiting for the developments. later they were
brought back and reinstituted (awarded for their bravery!!!).
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