Mesopotamia Freedom Party
- Mesopotamia Freedom Party
Mesopotamia Freedom Party or Gabo d’Hirutho d’Bethnahrin (GHB), formerly known as Patriotic Revolutionary Organization of Bethnahrin (PROB) or Bethnahrin Patriotic Revolution Organization is a militant Assyrian party, whose stated aim is to create an independent Assyrian state in a territory called Beth Nahrain, a reference to the Assyrian homeland. It has been labed as a terrorist group by the Turkish government. [ [http://www.hri.org/news/turkey/anadolu/2001/01-09-30.anadolu.html Anadolu Agency: News in English, 01-09-30 ] ] [tr icon [http://www.zaman.com.tr/webapp-tr/haber.do?haberno=457169&keyfield=53C3BC7279616E69 ZAMAN GAZETESİ [İnternetin İlk Türk Gazetesi - Yargıtay'ın terör listesine Süryani örgüt de girdi ] ] It is an ethnic secessionist organization that uses force and the threat of force against military targets for the purpose of achieving its political goal. The group has a youth wing as well dubbed "Free Youth of Bethnahrin."Fact|date=October 2007
Attacks
The group carried out its first attack against a KDP military compound in the town of Kasre on July 17, 1999, where 39 Peshmerga fighters were killed and 20 injured.[ [http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/1999/29-060899.html RFE/RL iraq Report ] ] Three days later a second attack was carried out by the group in which several of Barzani's fighters were killed when an army truck driving on a bridge between Kasre and Haci Umran was blown up by the PROB. The group claimed both attacks were to avenge the death of Assyrian Helen A. Sawa, who was killed by the Peshmerga.]Disruptions
On July 24, 2000, approximately a hundred members of the PROB forced entry in a governmental building in Lausanne, Switzerland. [ [http://bethsuryoyo.com/currentevents/lusanne/Occupation1.html PROB Occupies building in Lausanne, Switzerland ] ] The occupiers aimed to attract the attention of the media and the Swiss government as talks between Turkey and the EU began. The group demanded three points:
* In 1923, the Treaty of Lausanne denied the Assyrian people in Turkey their national rights. This treaty has been the cause for the denial of their existence as a people, hence today the Turkish government does not consider Assyrians as an ethnic minority.
* The continuing oppression and injustice on the Assyrian people in Turkey.
* The international recognition of the Assyrian people.
External links
* [http://www.bethsuryoyo.com/currentevents/MihayelCudi/MihayelCudiBiography.html Mihayel Cudi - A Biography]
*YouTube|id=MKJ26gahK18|title=Gudo d'Nuhomo - Dawronoye d'Bethnahrin
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