American Mesopotamian Organization
Grassroots / Political Action Committee

Executive Committee Members

Mr. David William Lazar, MBA-Chairman
Mr. Cleiden Atanous, Esq- Member
Mr. Raman Lazar- Treasurer
Dr. Sargon Issa- Member
Mr. Alan Darush, MD
Mr. Ashur Aghasi - Member
Mr. Emmanuel Goriel-Member
Mr. Ramsin Sheeno, Esq- Member
State Directors
 

Ms. Laura Khoshaba- Illinois

Vision


We believe that the Assyrian American community can be instrumental in bringing about change to US policy towards the Assyrians of the Middle East. We strive to be part of this change and part of the solution in defending Assyrian political and human rights throughout the Near East. While we will represent the collective Assyrian American viewpoint on matters of public policy, we will also serve as liaison between the community and their elected leaders.

 
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Who We Are

We are the sons and daughters of the great people of Mesopotamia that gave humanity its first writing shapes, its first political system, invented the wheel, divided the day into 24 hours and the hour into 60 minutes. Our ancestors established the first city states, authored the first epic, and founded the first library. We were among the early converts to Christianity and we went on to evangelize the nations to the East and North of Mesopotamia, from Persia and Armenia, through Central Asia and the Indian sub-continent to the high deserts of Mongolia and China.

We were also the victims of persecution and genocides throughout the centuries because of our Christian beliefs and ethnicity. Tens of thousands of us were massacred by Kurdish warlords in the 19th century and hundreds of thousands were annihilated by Ottoman Turks and their Kurdish allies from 1915-1924 massacres which later came to be known as the “Seyfo Genocide”.

We were again massacred in 1933 by the newly established Kingdom of Iraq. Since the creation of the modern Iraqi state in 1921 by British Colonial power, we have endured persecution and discrimination and we have been forced to abandon our historical lands in the Northern part of the country because of continued armed conflicts between the central governments in Baghdad and Kurdish insurgents.

Our enemies have used our sectarian differences against us by referring to us as adherents of different church denominations or by labelling us as “Christian Turks" or " Christian Arabs" and lately "Christian Kurds", in order to erase our Assyrian identity and our legitimate claim to our ancestral lands.

We believe that the Assyrian nation is comprised of communities that belong to the following Christian sects: Chaldean Catholic Church, Maronite Catholic Church, Assyrian Church of the East, Ancient Church of the East, Syriac Orthodox Church and Syriac Catholic Church, a variety of protestant and non-denominational churches and other communities from other Christian sects or different religions that profess the Assyrian identity.

While we respect all the different names that our nation has been identified with throughout the ages such as Chaldean, Nestorian, Maronite, Syriac, or Aramean, we are firm believers that the Assyrian name is the most appropriate national identity for this nation.