zanyar wwe They where here before the Kurds who didn't come into this area till the 8000 BC. Also the Kurds allied with the Ottoman Empire during the Assyrian genocide which killed up to 300,000 people leading to the elimination of half of the Assyrian nation. But live and forget!
Peshmerga Kurdistan it´s funny that you lie over and over again and after a 100 of lies you believe in the lies and it becomes the "truth" for you, you can´t change the history mate even if you lie and after 1000 of times you believe in it. because in fact the assyrians/syriacs have been living in theese areas long before the kurds inhabitade the area and are the indigenues people. have a nice day peace and love brother
LONG LIVE KURDISTAN and the KURDS!.....the ONLY REAL secular, freedom-loving and open democratic society, left in the central middle east where ANYONE(and I mean ANYONE) Is welcome and will be protected, that includes, Jews, Christians, shias, Sunnis, and all other faiths....and where women are given all rights and can do anything a man can do......believe me brotha, If you want freedom, secularism and no religious fanaticism. the Kurds are the ones that you should back
@Theodosius D.H No, really. Kurds are as bad as isis. They aren't the angels portrayed on tv. They're very abusive to Assyrian christians in iraq. They're very abusive to christians and only seek their own interests.
@@philregaz599 Most Assyrians like you just keep commenting than protecting your own people. Stop being trolls. I'm a Christian and we support Kurds always because they're the only one fight Turkey, the monster and have some sense of democracy and secularism.
@@amyangell2378 they are actually right they released isis prisoners funded a terrorist group against turkey killed syrian civilians who opposed them because of funding terrorist groups the us was aware of that so they left them
SMellmYfEet1999 yep and ISIS just established an " Islamic Caliphate".....which will probably be a sh*thole that you deserve to live in. Just Saying. Also ISIS HAS BEEN DOING THIS FOR RELIGION, THEY ARE KILLING SHIAS AND OTHER ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS FOR THE SAKE OF BELIEVING IN SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
Heval Arda Firstly, they never asked for kurdish "help". Secondly, they do protect their own areas. Thirdly, They never made kurrds fight their own battles and if they did give one example and before you do, read up on it. And lastly The kurds didnt act to protect people but to expand their "borders". Even in the video they dont mention "PROTECT" but they mention "WILL DIE FOR KURDISTAN". How much shit are you going to write here? Every comment made by you has no facts behind them seriously stop making your people look stupid.
@@22sommar first of all that was not all Kurds, only some tribe in Bakuri Kurdistan. second of all, the Kurdish leaders have spoke against these crimes and apologised while the turks still deny the Armenian genocide; the Kurdish genocide, the Greek massacres til this day and continue to deny it.
@@linnenowl8031 bro are you Kurd? the guy in the comment is turk and they always try to put armenian against kurds but it doesn’t work. he is not even armenian. because we are brothers and sisters, ask any armenian. they love the Kurdish people and us Kurds love the armenians. mongolian turk always trying to put the Kurds against people.. how bitter.
Unfortunately they didn't really defended Christians. In august 2014, just a few days after making this video, Peshmerga agreed with ISIS to withdrow in the night and let ISIS enter the town without warning the Christians. Thank God some people saw Peshmerga fleeing and the majority of the town managed to leave just in time. Unfortunately many people couldn't leave the city. Dozens of peopel were captured by ISIS, many were eventually turtored and killed.
I'm Kurdish Muslim, and i love my Assyrian brothers and sister, we have a history together like nobody have. We share the same land, the culture, food, music, history and even same genetics and God. The region have changed after influence from Islam, the Persians and the mongols came to this region, so our culture spited apart. I hope we can live in peace one day. I hope the kurds will get their self rule and as the same for the Assyrians after the treat is over Insha Allah this will happen. When this man say this region don't belong to the Kurds and the rest of the Iraq, i understand what he mean, i hope they will get peace one day and practice what they want and believe in as people.
Brother We will protect eachother for the first time We arabs will protect you and we will do it even if our last drop of blood drops We will die for our people which are the assyrians kurds arabs and others
"Even if we die, we'll die for our land." Seems this is the point of everybody, we heard the kurds say it, the shias, and now the christians. This is a war for land, village to village. It's not going to be over anytime soon.
All wars are about money and power. Don't let talk about religion or ethnic differences fool you. The only difference between the good guys and the bad guys is how they treat the people they defeat.
***** I'm not talking about the people actually doing the fighting. I'm talking about the people promoting the fighting in the first place. They want an Islamic caliphate so they can will power over people the way they see fit. Kurds fight for the same thing. They fight for the land because they understand that land is essential to power and it's the basis that will allow them to live in the way they chooses. Sunnis are just pissed because they use to run shit and the Shia in a way have to suppress them because if all things are just left freely. The Sunnis will run Iraq economically anyway because they have had the education and business contacts and knowledge for 50 years on how to run a state. Plus probably most of the richest Iraqis outside of the country are Sunni so they will be quick invest in Sunni areas. With all that said, when all of this is over, the "winner(s)" will still have to be able to do the following things. How will they feed their people? How will they educate their people? How will they create an economy that meet the needs of their people? How will they defend their people?
The leaders are in it for the power and money. The front men can then take up arms for whatever cause that floats their boat, be it religion, loyalty or ethnic ideologies. This is how it has always happened, even for the crusades. The root cause, i.e. the reward that is motivating the leaders, is still power and money.
islam is 1400 years behind the rest of the world. they think the time of the prophhet (piss be upon him) was when humans were their most perfect and so strive to emulate him, the illiterate aniti semitic murderer and paedophile that he was.
Being an Assyrian and living in Australia it breaks my heart to see the land of my ancestors torn apart. It breaks my heart to see my people suffer. My people have suffered way too long. Through many centuries the people of Assyria have been persecuted due to their faith. Through Genocides and persecutions thousands of my people have been slaughtered. It is time for the world to wake up and stop watching in silence and assist the Native people of Iraq.
i am a iraqi christian but me and my family have now lived in england for 11 years yet it is still hard for my family to see this happen and this is one of the first times i have seen my dad cry about somthing
This is why I support gun rights. And not just any gun rights. I think good people should have the right to own assault rifles, high capacity magazines, body armor, night vision equipment, you name it. Without guns, you're helpless in the face of people who do have guns or who outnumber you. If these Christians had AR-15s or AKs, they'd be able to stay where they were and defend themselves from Islamic imperialists.
This should be an example of why you shouldn't support gun rights! People are dying by the trigger and yet you still believe anybody should have the right to bear arms?
SanFran247 Gun control only stops law abiding citizens from owning them. ISIS and other criminal scum don't give a fuck. If somebody really wants to get their hands on a gun, they will, it's just a matter of time and money. Imagine if Peshmerga wasn't armed and defending their people, do you have any idea what ISIS would do to them? Stop being so ignorant.
You are ignorant if you believe any policy the government puts forward will be recognized by the general population based on THE ONGOING ALL OUT WAR. Plus they only need guns to protect themselves from ISIS because ISIS was able to gain control of their weaponry through the lack of gun control. If there was any gun control in the first place maybe some of this could have been prevented. However the west feels the need to give groups weaponry which ultimately backfires as it has throughout history. If we don't learn history we are doomed to repeat it and it looks like you didn't learn yours.
Also this isn't America people are not protecting their front porches they are protecting their families. I agree that now they need weapons but they wouldn't have needed it in the first place if the Americans did not give their weapons to any group they please cuz they always end up in the bad hands.
Why Don't All the Christians in Syria, and Iraq go to Lebanon? I mean these is a HUGE christian population there, plus with millions of more Christians. Lebanon will be a Christian majority state again, instead of Shia. ? :/ I am just curious about this.
I just got the news 1 hour ago that the Assyrians are returning back to Bakhdida (Qaraqosh). Assyrians returning back to Bakhdida and Bartella as the cities are now stable and safe with the establishment of security and life necessities back in order. Update, June.28: Assyrian Democratic Movement -- Yonadam Kanna warning Peshmerga to leave Assyrian territories. Assyrian Democratic Movement Deputy Secretary General, blames Kurdish militias for the latest displacement of our people from Qaraqosh and Karemlis in the Nineveh Plain. Update, July.1: Nohadra (Dohuk) - Assyrian Democratic Movement (ZOWAA) calls for a safe Assyrian zone in the Nineveh Plains, with national collective effort and International protection
I never heard of a Kurdish land, the name Kurdistan has never existed in history, maybe you are too stupid to pick up a history book and read on Mesopotamia. The world teaches of Assyria, whether in Academics, Religion, or other teachings, even the EARLIEST part of the Judeo-Christian Bible Genesis 2:10 states that North Iraq = ASSYRIAN LAND I also got a word for you -- Assyriology. dont worry, we will teach you a lesson in Nineveh, rather you leave by diplomacy or by force.
Honestly, how old are you? Do you even know what Assyriology is? By the way, there is no such thing as a Kurdology. Where is the historical source for Kurdstan please, give me a date and a king name. Yes it does talk about Iraq, It's not 2:10 its 2:14-- Genesis 2:14:: And the name of the third river is the *Tigris*, which flows east of *Assyria*. You aren't protecting anyone, the Kurds and the ISIS work together, even the Turkmen in Kirkuk are seeing this. How is Nineveh your home land? LOL. I beg anyone to do a simple research on Nineveh and see who's homeland that really belongs to.
Give me 1 Kurdish king and date please Really? The Turkmens are thanking Peshmerga? I beg to differ from this news recently posted. AINA-2014-06-28 - Iraqi Turkmen leader Ersad Salihi has slammed the president of the autonomous Kurdish Regional Government of northern Iraq, Masoud Barzani, after the latter insisted that Kurdish forces would not be pulling out of Kirkuk during a meeting with British Foreign Minister William Hague on Friday. The Peshmerga only protect their own interest, and as I say, the Assyrians will expose the KRG as the criminals they are.
George, I am not saying Kurds are bad, there are very good Kurdish people. However, the policies of the KDP is bad and the Assyrians wont put up with it. The Assyrian Democratic Movement just called on International Protection in the Assyrian Safe Haven they are creating + Just today Over 1000 Assyrians joined the army to protect Assyrians in East Nineveh.
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It was so uplifting to see that even in such hard times when people lack food and water for themselves, some one had placed water and couple of biscuits for the dog at 4:45 :)
well leave that for later let the automated drones kill majority of these terrorist scum and then send the ground infantry, would be nice if a nuke fallowed.
Wow just reading some of those comments here, as a kurd I just want to hold out my hand of friendship towards Assyrians, seriously we should be building a bridge for us, stop the stupid debates, we got to many enemies in this region, we need to be allies for our survival, my cousin whom was 19 years of age died trying to protect a Christian village against this barbaric horde that is ISIS, pains me to see Assyrians & Kurds fighting over rubbish, we both have historical claim to that beautiful land, now lets work together to protect it
Kurdistan is the most safest place for all kinds of religions because we are tolerant towards all faith. also Kurds are Christians too, and Jewish, some are Yezidi and Alevi while others follow Zoroastrianism. i could go on still.. we love all people ♥️✌️ just not islam because islam belongs to arabs and you can see the result of islam. it’s killed our people and oppressed them for far too long. Jesus be with us ✝️♥️
I dont understand how you can get these dispatches out quicker than the ones in ukraine I mean iraq is 10x more worse than ukraine yet this guy is pumping out 1 video a day
now that i think about it... it's kind of silly to say you'd die for your land. Family, people, your government, religion I can understand--but land? Why would you die for a piece of dirt? Are our lives only worth some dirt and invisible lines on a map?
wafflepiepancake If you were raised from birth that it was the most important aspect of life, I could understand someone dying for it. I'm not saying I support it at all, but the choices we make are entirely based on how and where we were raised
Just like to say that this guy is a great reporter. He's trying to make sure both sides (Arabs and Kurds) are represented and has a serious edge to his reporting. Good job sir!
I fond abd proud of you all ...you are right don't be afraid to die. To be a martyr of our faith.do good to every one even to die. Because being die to good our fellow human being we have crowns From above....keeping to our Lord and God
Way to go Kurds fighting against ISIS and defending whoever needs it (in this case the Christians). Seems like these Kurds are the only reasonable faction in Iraq atm..
***** Are you fuckin stupid? It may have started because of something else but now its primarily a sectarian war. In Iraq its between the Sunni, Shiites, and the Kurds. In Syria between the Alawites, Kurds, Sunnis, and the Shiite.
Not really! I am from Qaraqosh. The destruction of Qaraqosh (Assyrian Christian town) was planned by Kurdish forces and executed by ISIS. The Kurdish forces planned ethnic cleansing the Neneveh plain from Assyrians and Yezidis, so they could come back, invade it and claim that its their land (after killing everyone and burring the evidence that the lands doesn't belong to the indigenous people). Before the attack of ISIS, the Kurdish forces completely disarmed the people in Qaraqosh by force, and lied to them by promising them to protect the area, but just shortly after that the Kurdish army withdrew secretly. The people saw them withdrawing and saw that their town is getting bombarded by ISIS bombs (where at least three died), so most of them escaped immediately leaving everything they owned behind. In conclusion, Kurdish army deceived us and planned our death. Unfortunately, the media is telling us something else. The Kurdish army is not fighting ISIS to save us from them, but to concur new lands and include them with their fake map. If you read the history, you will find that the Kurds have been killing and displacing Assyrians in the region since the 1915s until this day. Most of the land is stolen from Assyria.
Just for hypothetical entertainment, I wish christianity and islam just picked their biggest and strongest and duked it out 1 on 1 gladiator style and settled it once and for all. I mean God is obviously on the side of the victor amirite?
***** Or maybe they'll they'll advance beyond the west, at least one could hope. For clarity, before arabias religious downfall they were the height of math, technology and culture, much like rome before the dark ages and christianity. Middle east needs a Renaissance period pronto.
because Christians dont hate Muslims or vice versa. These are extremist plain and simple. Not once have i ever seen any friends of mine Muslim, Christian, Jew, Hindu, ect. pick up a weapon against their fellow man.
Point, however there's a 3rd group. The middle group. The group that speaks but doesn't act. The group that would love to see the others die in a pit of fire, but carries on their day. No they are not extremists. No, they are not the "love everyone" people deep down either. And I'm willing to bet, this group, makes up the majority of religious people, young and old. Yes this is my biased observation, but If to any value, I do come from a very liberal strip of land. If you want to attribute this to people in general dividing and pointing blame, i can give ground there.
Ashurrrrrrrrr 🇨🇭💪🏼 few Assyrian men stayed to defend the church. That's basically our history for the last 1500 years. Defending the church inside the Muslim world.
VIce news!!! you need to post more information about what is going asap! I admire what you are doing in iraq but you need to keep us up to date! please upload more on the situation in iraq! BIG FAN!!!
Unbelievable some people would endanger themselves to bring light to what chaos is being brought upon this Earth. I pray that your reporters will return safely. God Bless.
What I like about VICE most, they're not pussies who read a notes in an office like news channels, they actually goto the front lines and speak to the people there, Good work guys!
As a Muslim myself, seeing extremists killing religious minorities is heart breaking, may God have mercy on the souls of the innocent and punish ISIS for their heinous deeds.
Vatican and the Catholic Church should make a move , Middle Eastern Christians are open-minded , most of them are educated , a move should be taken to distribute Christian tribes to Christian/Open-minded countries because Christians in the Middle East are the first/oldest Christians in the world and they have a right to live a decent life , to feel safe , if i was a Christian in Iraq i wouldn't feel safe at all.
Our God will always protect us, we are one! God bless our cousinz! Thank you Lord God for what you have done! Thank you for the good stewart men and women! May our rightous God bring us together to remove the corrupt in every country! Am'en.
This journalist has huge balls! That whole place gonna get overrun soon! This man's head will probably be on the news! Whoaaaa duuuude!!!!!!!!! Im fuckin loosin it!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm Assyrian...this just made me break out in tears. We will be great again one day. Like we used to be.
I am chaldean brother
I'm Muslim from Mosul and many of my childhood friends are Christian. Hopefully one day we all go back to Iraq and live peacefully like we used to.
khan ruin everything
Shintek I'm catholic and i hope one day christianity will be strong in the levant again. You must stand your ground and be brave
@@abc_cba The kurds are the ones abusing us
Assyrians people have been there since 24th century BC. Even went through a genocide by Ottoman Empire during World War 1.
Yea because they invaded these areas
zanyar wwe
They where here before the Kurds who didn't come into this area till the 8000 BC. Also the Kurds allied with the Ottoman Empire during the Assyrian genocide which killed up to 300,000 people leading to the elimination of half of the Assyrian nation.
But live and forget!
Peshmerga Kurdistan it´s funny that you lie over and over again and after a 100 of lies you believe in the lies and it becomes the "truth" for you, you can´t change the history mate even if you lie and after 1000 of times you believe in it. because in fact the assyrians/syriacs have been living in theese areas long before the kurds inhabitade the area and are the indigenues people. have a nice day peace and love brother
I'm an Assyrian, and my ancestors have been in those lands for over 7000 years.
Kurds are from Pakistan somewhere, they're not even indigenous to Mesopotamia. They're basically gypsies
Tragic to see minorities persecuted so.
The Assyrians were some of the baddest motherfuckers around in ancient times. It's a tragedy that they've been reduced to this in general.
Will Peper War is always a tragedy and never glorious.
Western Europe should have let arab Christians come in, not all arabs...
Will Peper Ironically, the ancient Assyrians also committed mass genocides.
Kristiano Bertucci Nonsense. Lebanon should do that, it's the only Arab somewhat christian nation in the middle east.
I want to thank the Kurds for helping to protect the Christians. They are most vulnerable.
LONG LIVE KURDISTAN and the KURDS!.....the ONLY REAL secular, freedom-loving and open democratic society, left in the central middle east where ANYONE(and I mean ANYONE) Is welcome and will be protected, that includes, Jews, Christians, shias, Sunnis, and all other faiths....and where women are given all rights and can do anything a man can do......believe me brotha, If you want freedom, secularism and no religious fanaticism. the Kurds are the ones that you should back
@@BinaryTechnique Kurds are awesome !! They kick ass😁🇺🇸and fight Islamic terrorist........
@Theodosius D.H No, really. Kurds are as bad as isis. They aren't the angels portrayed on tv. They're very abusive to Assyrian christians in iraq. They're very abusive to christians and only seek their own interests.
@@philregaz599 Most Assyrians like you just keep commenting than protecting your own people.
Stop being trolls. I'm a Christian and we support Kurds always because they're the only one fight Turkey, the monster and have some sense of democracy and secularism.
@@amyangell2378 they are actually right they released isis prisoners funded a terrorist group against turkey killed syrian civilians who opposed them because of funding terrorist groups the us was aware of that so they left them
Thanks for covering the situation of the Christians! it's nice to see how brave they are! I have them in my prayers!
SMellmYfEet1999 peshmerga are nationalists and isis are fundamentalists they fight for 2 different things idiot
SMellmYfEet1999 yep and ISIS just established an " Islamic Caliphate".....which will probably be a sh*thole that you deserve to live in. Just Saying. Also ISIS HAS BEEN DOING THIS FOR RELIGION, THEY ARE KILLING SHIAS AND OTHER ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS FOR THE SAKE OF BELIEVING IN SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
Alpha Axe Cop this is what Islam is all about, Death, Slaughter and deceive!
Heval Arda
Firstly, they never asked for kurdish "help".
Secondly, they do protect their own areas.
Thirdly, They never made kurrds fight their own battles and if they did give one example and before you do, read up on it.
And lastly The kurds didnt act to protect people but to expand their "borders". Even in the video they dont mention "PROTECT" but they mention "WILL DIE FOR KURDISTAN".
How much shit are you going to write here? Every comment made by you has no facts behind them seriously stop making your people look stupid.
bleh
Bless the people of Kurdistan. Regardless of religion they put their lives on the line for their christian neighbors.
These people are not from Kurdistan. They are Assyrian! We are from Assyria
Oh yeah as you did for the armenians when you assisted the turks in the armenian genocide,,
@@22sommar who did
@@22sommar first of all that was not all Kurds, only some tribe in Bakuri Kurdistan. second of all, the Kurdish leaders have spoke against these crimes and apologised while the turks still deny the Armenian genocide; the Kurdish genocide, the Greek massacres til this day and continue to deny it.
@@linnenowl8031 bro are you Kurd? the guy in the comment is turk and they always try to put armenian against kurds but it doesn’t work. he is not even armenian. because we are brothers and sisters, ask any armenian. they love the Kurdish people and us Kurds love the armenians. mongolian turk always trying to put the Kurds against people.. how bitter.
Huge respect to the Peshmergas for defending the christian minority in Iraq.
Unfortunately they didn't really defended Christians. In august 2014, just a few days after making this video, Peshmerga agreed with ISIS to withdrow in the night and let ISIS enter the town without warning the Christians.
Thank God some people saw Peshmerga fleeing and the majority of the town managed to leave just in time. Unfortunately many people couldn't leave the city. Dozens of peopel were captured by ISIS, many were eventually turtored and killed.
baghdeda Thats propaganda. Peshmerga liberated the town and many other christian towns
Daeshmerga were partners with ISIS....spit on Daeshmerga graves
@@BinaryTechnique You should be a perfect reason why couples should use condoms
@@BinaryTechnique lol u Just saw the arab at the begining That said so... and belived him
I love the description, at least people understand that there are Assyrian Christians.
Long live assyrian christians ❣️
Isis will be ground into dust by the foot of Christ!! may these ppl be safe!!
As a Muslim myself i think Isis is the biggest enemy of Islam we have ever faced in modern era
@@Alamdar- Ah yes the religion of peace 😂
I am Assyrian. I learn so much more watching these videos, thank you VICE!
I'm Kurdish Muslim, and i love my Assyrian brothers and sister, we have a history together like nobody have. We share the same land, the culture, food, music, history and even same genetics and God. The region have changed after influence from Islam, the Persians and the mongols came to this region, so our culture spited apart. I hope we can live in peace one day. I hope the kurds will get their self rule and as the same for the Assyrians after the treat is over Insha Allah this will happen. When this man say this region don't belong to the Kurds and the rest of the Iraq, i understand what he mean, i hope they will get peace one day and practice what they want and believe in as people.
+middle east I am Kurdish Zardosht, I hate Assyrian Arabs, They hate us and Kurds always portect them , what a shame people
middle east I agree with you, peace from an Assyrian
god bless you, from an Assyrian christian in syria
Brother We will protect eachother for the first time We arabs will protect you and we will do it even if our last drop of blood drops We will die for our people which are the assyrians kurds arabs and others
why some are salty
"Even if we die, we'll die for our land."
Seems this is the point of everybody, we heard the kurds say it, the shias, and now the christians. This is a war for land, village to village. It's not going to be over anytime soon.
Love all the positive comments from Christians and Muslims on here. God bless Iraq and all its people..
Its time for a crusade.
amen to that
Fortunately Putin went first in the march.
I ready to be a crusade..i like it
crusade!!! lets take back the Middle East for the Christians!!! make the middle east great again!!!! to hell with Muhammed & his cult!!!
@@faanengaaw7357 think about this .. cristians living in iraq under protection of the muslims .. so be careful about what you have to say.
All wars are about money and power. Don't let talk about religion or ethnic differences fool you. The only difference between the good guys and the bad guys is how they treat the people they defeat.
***** I'm not talking about the people actually doing the fighting. I'm talking about the people promoting the fighting in the first place. They want an Islamic caliphate so they can will power over people the way they see fit. Kurds fight for the same thing. They fight for the land because they understand that land is essential to power and it's the basis that will allow them to live in the way they chooses. Sunnis are just pissed because they use to run shit and the Shia in a way have to suppress them because if all things are just left freely. The Sunnis will run Iraq economically anyway because they have had the education and business contacts and knowledge for 50 years on how to run a state. Plus probably most of the richest Iraqis outside of the country are Sunni so they will be quick invest in Sunni areas. With all that said, when all of this is over, the "winner(s)" will still have to be able to do the following things. How will they feed their people? How will they educate their people? How will they create an economy that meet the needs of their people? How will they defend their people?
Debonair73, you nailed it.
***** You are putting a rat under a microscope in order to ascertain its colour. You are not wrong but you're not looking at the root cause.
The leaders are in it for the power and money. The front men can then take up arms for whatever cause that floats their boat, be it religion, loyalty or ethnic ideologies. This is how it has always happened, even for the crusades. The root cause, i.e. the reward that is motivating the leaders, is still power and money.
***** Since when did armies decide where they went/what territories they want too hold?
i though holy wars were so 6 centuries ago...
Islam isn't done destroying the middle east.
tell the Muslims that
islam is 1400 years behind the rest of the world. they think the time of the prophhet (piss be upon him) was when humans were their most perfect and so strive to emulate him, the illiterate aniti semitic murderer and paedophile that he was.
Those ISIS people are simply being hipsters.
WW2veteran1 tell the Irish that
God Bless the Indigenous people of North Iraq/Iraq. (Assyrians).
I PRAY IN MIGHTY NAME JESUS CHRIST SEND THE ANGELS TO PROTECT THE CITY AND THE PEOPLE IN THERE NOW. THERE IS POWER IS JESUS NAME. AMEN
Amen🙏
Being an Assyrian and living in Australia it breaks my heart to see the land of my ancestors torn apart. It breaks my heart to see my people suffer. My people have suffered way too long. Through many centuries the people of Assyria have been persecuted due to their faith. Through Genocides and persecutions thousands of my people have been slaughtered. It is time for the world to wake up and stop watching in silence and assist the Native people of Iraq.
I pray for my Christian brothers and sisters in Iraq. I've never forgotten your struggle.
i am a iraqi christian but me and my family have now lived in england for 11 years yet it is still hard for my family to see this happen and this is one of the first times i have seen my dad cry about somthing
love it Vice! please keep on updating on situation in northern Iraq
I pray for my Christian brothers and sisters who, being persecuted by ISIS, to remain strong in the faith and never give up hope.
4:55 My House , i miss u :(
it was your house 4:55???
5 years late but im sorry for you man. I hope youre doing well :)
@@orderofmokosh Isis have been defeated
it's crusade time
It never ended child.
Create a Children's Crusade?
Great work Vice News Crew & Staff.Great Effort.Very informative...
This is why I support gun rights. And not just any gun rights. I think good people should have the right to own assault rifles, high capacity magazines, body armor, night vision equipment, you name it. Without guns, you're helpless in the face of people who do have guns or who outnumber you. If these Christians had AR-15s or AKs, they'd be able to stay where they were and defend themselves from Islamic imperialists.
Those terrorists also have guns....If they didnt have guns in the first place there wouldn't be any need for gun rights.
This should be an example of why you shouldn't support gun rights! People are dying by the trigger and yet you still believe anybody should have the right to bear arms?
SanFran247 Gun control only stops law abiding citizens from owning them. ISIS and other criminal scum don't give a fuck. If somebody really wants to get their hands on a gun, they will, it's just a matter of time and money. Imagine if Peshmerga wasn't armed and defending their people, do you have any idea what ISIS would do to them? Stop being so ignorant.
You are ignorant if you believe any policy the government puts forward will be recognized by the general population based on THE ONGOING ALL OUT WAR. Plus they only need guns to protect themselves from ISIS because ISIS was able to gain control of their weaponry through the lack of gun control. If there was any gun control in the first place maybe some of this could have been prevented. However the west feels the need to give groups weaponry which ultimately backfires as it has throughout history. If we don't learn history we are doomed to repeat it and it looks like you didn't learn yours.
Also this isn't America people are not protecting their front porches they are protecting their families. I agree that now they need weapons but they wouldn't have needed it in the first place if the Americans did not give their weapons to any group they please cuz they always end up in the bad hands.
Why Don't All the Christians in Syria, and Iraq go to Lebanon? I mean these is a HUGE christian population there, plus with millions of more Christians. Lebanon will be a Christian majority state again, instead of Shia. ? :/ I am just curious about this.
With that Logic, why don't all Muslims move to Saudi Arabia.
People dislike being forced to move from their home.
the idiocy is strong on this one
***** And not all Christians are born in Lebanon.
>giving up and moving because of ISIS.
These people have balls, they aren't going anywhere, Honor First.
Best of Luck & Victory to the brave Peshmerga!
Vice News. You are much appreciated. Thank you.
I got mad respect for the Peshmerga, but all that land you see there, and every other inch of Iraq, belonged to the Assyrians.
Heval Arda you are delusional aren't you ? thanks for the laugh anyway
+Heval Arda your stupidity is on a whole different level , Qurds didn't even make it into a single history book LOOL
***** Russians have small population and their country is as big as a planet pluto
Nah Not anymore
"even if we die, we'll die for our land." Damn.. that's deep
I just got the news 1 hour ago that the Assyrians are returning back to Bakhdida (Qaraqosh).
Assyrians returning back to Bakhdida and Bartella as the cities are now stable and safe with the establishment of security and life necessities back in order.
Update, June.28: Assyrian Democratic Movement -- Yonadam Kanna warning Peshmerga to leave Assyrian territories. Assyrian Democratic Movement Deputy Secretary General, blames Kurdish militias for the latest displacement of our people from Qaraqosh and Karemlis in the Nineveh Plain.
Update, July.1: Nohadra (Dohuk) - Assyrian Democratic Movement (ZOWAA) calls for a safe Assyrian zone in the Nineveh Plains, with national collective effort and International protection
I never heard of a Kurdish land, the name Kurdistan has never existed in history, maybe you are too stupid to pick up a history book and read on Mesopotamia. The world teaches of Assyria, whether in Academics, Religion, or other teachings, even the EARLIEST part of the Judeo-Christian Bible Genesis 2:10 states that North Iraq = ASSYRIAN LAND
I also got a word for you -- Assyriology.
dont worry, we will teach you a lesson in Nineveh, rather you leave by diplomacy or by force.
Honestly, how old are you? Do you even know what Assyriology is? By the way, there is no such thing as a Kurdology. Where is the historical source for Kurdstan please, give me a date and a king name.
Yes it does talk about Iraq, It's not 2:10 its 2:14-- Genesis 2:14:: And the name of the third river is the *Tigris*, which flows east of *Assyria*.
You aren't protecting anyone, the Kurds and the ISIS work together, even the Turkmen in Kirkuk are seeing this.
How is Nineveh your home land? LOL. I beg anyone to do a simple research on Nineveh and see who's homeland that really belongs to.
Give me 1 Kurdish king and date please
Really? The Turkmens are thanking Peshmerga? I beg to differ from this news recently posted.
AINA-2014-06-28 - Iraqi Turkmen leader Ersad Salihi has slammed the president of the autonomous Kurdish Regional Government of northern Iraq, Masoud Barzani, after the latter insisted that Kurdish forces would not be pulling out of Kirkuk during a meeting with British Foreign Minister William Hague on Friday.
The Peshmerga only protect their own interest, and as I say, the Assyrians will expose the KRG as the criminals they are.
George, I am not saying Kurds are bad, there are very good Kurdish people. However, the policies of the KDP is bad and the Assyrians wont put up with it.
The Assyrian Democratic Movement just called on International Protection in the Assyrian Safe Haven they are creating + Just today Over 1000 Assyrians joined the army to protect Assyrians in East Nineveh.
I'm christian from indonesia but i want to say thank u to kurdish people because always protecting the assyrians christians 👍
well, to my assyrian and chaldean brothers, my prayers will always go to you every night, from your lebanese brother
GOD BLESS. I PRAY FOR ALL OF THEM!
LOL
i may be many years late but: God bless them! Help my christian friends in the middle east. Amen
mary could not save you...Only jesus Christ will free you from harm...PLease worship god(Jesus Christ) in spirit and truth.God hate "IDOLS".IDOLs is form by human hand materials are cement,stone,wood,plastic,decorative,nails,paint..they ingrave to form image or idols...PLEAse read this>>EXODUS 20:1-5/LEVITICUS 26:1-5..
The Kurds should be getting that 500m.
It was so uplifting to see that even in such hard times when people lack food and water for themselves, some one had placed water and couple of biscuits for the dog at 4:45 :)
iraq has christians?!?!, we need to send the NATO in to help these poor people out.
CRUSADE WHEN??
well leave that for later let the automated drones kill majority of these terrorist scum and then send the ground infantry, would be nice if a nuke fallowed.
god wills it
why only the Christians, not all Muslims are bad and most of them are actually against fundamentalists such as the ISIS.
estrom111 you give atheists and agnostics a bad rap, no need to be an ass to the majority of the world
God bless all off you!!
Precious Blood of Jesus, save us and the whole world. Amen.
Has This playlist been forgotten or has something happened to the reporter while in Iraq?
Oh my God,courage brothers.
great video
My cuz is about 17 turning 18 he is talking about going over to Iraq to help fight ISIS with the Christians
Não é só cristão que esta sendo ameaçado pelo jihadista é o sistema Ocidental.............
silvanna machado he's graduating till he is 19 but he really wants to go
He hates isis
I wish him luck!
How is he now
This is so sad. Iraq has already gone through so much.
Please Support the kurds there
Da gibt es nichts reinzuwaschen!
Ich versuche nur etwas mehr Aufmerksamkeit für mein Volk anzuregen.
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Sorry aber ihr habt beide null Ahnung.
Irgendwann versteht ihr es
Ich geb dir ein Tipp geh weg von den grauen Wölfen.
Komm lass sein...
I feel sorry for the people who have to leave their homes for this war. I wish we can have peace in the whole region.
Wow just reading some of those comments here, as a kurd I just want to hold out my hand of friendship towards Assyrians, seriously we should be building a bridge for us, stop the stupid debates, we got to many enemies in this region, we need to be allies for our survival, my cousin whom was 19 years of age died trying to protect a Christian village against this barbaric horde that is ISIS, pains me to see Assyrians & Kurds fighting over rubbish, we both have historical claim to that beautiful land, now lets work together to protect it
I cant find anyting after part 5, but this is a few months old, Is there no new parts?
Kurdistan is the most safest place for all kinds of religions because we are tolerant towards all faith. also Kurds are Christians too, and Jewish, some are Yezidi and Alevi while others follow Zoroastrianism. i could go on still.. we love all people ♥️✌️ just not islam because islam belongs to arabs and you can see the result of islam. it’s killed our people and oppressed them for far too long. Jesus be with us ✝️♥️
Praise the Lord Jesus Christ. Biji Kurdistan!
Biji peshmerga ✌️ I’m a Kurdish Christian. thank you for protecting our people and land.
Who's watching this in 2019. XD
I dont understand how you can get these dispatches out quicker than the ones in ukraine I mean iraq is 10x more worse than ukraine yet this guy is pumping out 1 video a day
God Bless you Peshmerga!
For delivering Christians and Yezidis to ISIS?
You travel hard buddy! I'm nervous about simply going to erbil in a month
now that i think about it... it's kind of silly to say you'd die for your land. Family, people, your government, religion I can understand--but land? Why would you die for a piece of dirt? Are our lives only worth some dirt and invisible lines on a map?
Why would you die for your religion?
wafflepiepancake If you were raised from birth that it was the most important aspect of life, I could understand someone dying for it. I'm not saying I support it at all, but the choices we make are entirely based on how and where we were raised
***** I strongly disagree with ONE-SIDED governments that are pure communist/capitalist/whatever else you can think of
Because that's where you live, breathe, shit? More importantly for them, that's where their ancestors have been for a long time.
CJ2i3 If you see it coming.. Why stay? And if you do decide to stay, then at least try to fight what is coming.
Just like to say that this guy is a great reporter. He's trying to make sure both sides (Arabs and Kurds) are represented and has a serious edge to his reporting. Good job sir!
Christ will protect no-one and the land is nothing to die for, just flee and live another day
Ryan Rodriguez Well, why doesnt christ come to defend his houses and lands?
***** Thanks, can Jesus trek to Congo? they need him fast
Realist fucking comment.
urbman29 got to pump sense into charlatans, man
Bright Mhango Right? Zealots worse than Destiny.
Vice has some serious balls.
I fond abd proud of you all ...you are right don't be afraid to die.
To be a martyr of our faith.do good to every one even to die.
Because being die to good our fellow human being we have crowns
From above....keeping to our Lord and God
thankyou vice
Way to go Kurds fighting against ISIS and defending whoever needs it (in this case the Christians).
Seems like these Kurds are the only reasonable faction in Iraq atm..
Wow amazing stuff
Religion...
*****?
***** Where?
***** Just read about it, and more people were killed in the name of religion by far.
***** Do what? State the truth?
***** Are you fuckin stupid? It may have started because of something else but now its primarily a sectarian war. In Iraq its between the Sunni, Shiites, and the Kurds. In Syria between the Alawites, Kurds, Sunnis, and the Shiite.
These dude got balls stayin to protect the church
They are Catholics, not Christians.
dumb
They are most likely Coptic Christians..
Or some other type based on Eastern Orthodoxy
Catholicism is a sect of Christianity.
14 year old confirmed.
Saad Khan Syrians are Orthodox and catholic, which are first century Christians.
finally someone spoke out
its a shame when Kurds protect assyrians and they dont appreciate it.!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not really!
I am from Qaraqosh. The destruction of Qaraqosh (Assyrian Christian town) was planned by Kurdish forces and executed by ISIS. The Kurdish forces planned ethnic cleansing the Neneveh plain from Assyrians and Yezidis, so they could come back, invade it and claim that its their land (after killing everyone and burring the evidence that the lands doesn't belong to the indigenous people). Before the attack of ISIS, the Kurdish forces completely disarmed the people in Qaraqosh by force, and lied to them by promising them to protect the area, but just shortly after that the Kurdish army withdrew secretly. The people saw them withdrawing and saw that their town is getting bombarded by ISIS bombs (where at least three died), so most of them escaped immediately leaving everything they owned behind. In conclusion, Kurdish army deceived us and planned our death. Unfortunately, the media is telling us something else. The Kurdish army is not fighting ISIS to save us from them, but to concur new lands and include them with their fake map. If you read the history, you will find that the Kurds have been killing and displacing Assyrians in the region since the 1915s until this day. Most of the land is stolen from Assyria.
This is the important journalism vice needs to get back to
what does the pope have to say about this?
***** For God! Gott mit uns!
These people are so brave & faithful.
Lord forgive isis for the know not what they do
LOL Christians
I'm catholic and I'm proud of my brothers who fight for liberty !
Just for hypothetical entertainment, I wish christianity and islam just picked their biggest and strongest and duked it out 1 on 1 gladiator style and settled it once and for all. I mean God is obviously on the side of the victor amirite?
*****
Or maybe they'll they'll advance beyond the west, at least one could hope. For clarity, before arabias religious downfall they were the height of math, technology and culture, much like rome before the dark ages and christianity. Middle east needs a Renaissance period pronto.
because Christians dont hate Muslims or vice versa. These are extremist plain and simple. Not once have i ever seen any friends of mine Muslim, Christian, Jew, Hindu, ect. pick up a weapon against their fellow man.
Point, however there's a 3rd group. The middle group. The group that speaks but doesn't act. The group that would love to see the others die in a pit of fire, but carries on their day. No they are not extremists. No, they are not the "love everyone" people deep down either. And I'm willing to bet, this group, makes up the majority of religious people, young and old. Yes this is my biased observation, but If to any value, I do come from a very liberal strip of land. If you want to attribute this to people in general dividing and pointing blame, i can give ground there.
Ashurrrrrrrrr 🇨🇭💪🏼 few Assyrian men stayed to defend the church. That's basically our history for the last 1500 years. Defending the church inside the Muslim world.
VIce news!!! you need to post more information about what is going asap! I admire what you are doing in iraq but you need to keep us up to date! please upload more on the situation in iraq! BIG FAN!!!
thank gdness for subtitles... :/
Unbelievable some people would endanger themselves to bring light to what chaos is being brought upon this Earth. I pray that your reporters will return safely. God Bless.
The video is choppy. Anyone having similar experience?
"No water, no electricity!" Dude, you're standing in Iraq most people don't have running water or electricity at the best of times.
This is really sad..
What I like about VICE most, they're not pussies who read a notes in an office like news channels, they actually goto the front lines and speak to the people there, Good work guys!
Can't find the link to dispatch 4
As a Muslim myself, seeing extremists killing religious minorities is heart breaking, may God have mercy on the souls of the innocent and punish ISIS for their heinous deeds.
Vatican and the Catholic Church should make a move , Middle Eastern Christians are open-minded , most of them are educated , a move should be taken to distribute Christian tribes to Christian/Open-minded countries because Christians in the Middle East are the first/oldest Christians in the world and they have a right to live a decent life , to feel safe , if i was a Christian in Iraq i wouldn't feel safe at all.
God bless you
I'm Muslim and I have all my respect to Christian
@J H Please stfu, go to Iraq you will see the Iraqi Army, Muslim and Christian fight hand in hand against the devil who is ISIS
He said "Marry will protect us." That's not the Christian faith. Mary is not God and will not protect you. It's sad.
man this journalist has balls
Our God will always protect us, we are one!
God bless our cousinz!
Thank you Lord God for what you have done!
Thank you for the good stewart men and women!
May our rightous God bring us together to remove the corrupt in every country!
Am'en.
Poor Christians, where is Christian Ummah?
These guys are so brave, to go there and make these videos.
Some of the oldest Christians in this 🌎
This journalist has huge balls! That whole place gonna get overrun soon! This man's head will probably be on the news! Whoaaaa duuuude!!!!!!!!! Im fuckin loosin it!!!!!!!!!!!!
ISIS, Repent, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and You shall be saved! JESUS CHRIST is your answer... JESUS IS LORD OVER IRAQ!
support and love from assyrian church of east india....
Vice reporters have some fucking balls.