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Mar Eshai Shimun to the Iraqi Minister of the Interior, June 1933

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Mar Eshai Shimun to the Iraqi Minister of the Interior, June 1933

Place
Baghdad · today Iraq
Date
1933
ClergyDocument

British confidential print reproducing Mar Eshai Shimun's letter of 29 June 1933 from Baghdad, where he was being detained, protesting his detention and the handling of the Assyrian settlement, and reserving the right to appeal to the League of Nations, weeks before the Simele massacre.

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Source

Qatar Digital Library (British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers)

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