The West- Aramean Isoh Majeed Hadaya killed by terrorists in Iraq
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Baghdeda (Iraq)- The situation for the Indigenous Aramean Christian people of Iraq is increasingly getting worse. October 12 2006, the West- Aramean Syrian Orthodox priest Paulus Iskandar was barbarically beheaded by Islamic terrorists.
Wednesday 22-11-2006, the West- Aramean Syrian Catholic Isoh Majeed Hadaya was brutally killed in the village of Baghdeda, situated in the Kurdish part of Iraq. Baghdeda is in majority inhabited by the West- Aramean Syrian Catholics.
Mr. Hadaya was de President of the Aramean organisation "Syriac Independend Movement Assembly (SIMA)" and a distinguished person within the Aramean nation of Iraq, in particular in Baghdeda. SIMA is based in Baghdeda. When Mr. Hadaya left the office on wednesday 22-11-2006 at 19.00 hour, unknown masked men with machine guns were waiting for him and riddled his body with bullets.
Isoh Majeed Haday was born in 1954. He is married and father of 4 Childeren.
In Iraq, there are various Aramean denominations, to mention:
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West- Aramean Syrian Orthodox, around 80.000
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West- Aramean Syrian Catholics, around 40.00
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West- Aramean Syrian Melkites??????
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East- Aramean Syrian Nestorian “Chaldeans, around 250.000- 300.000
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East- Aramean Syrian Nestorian “Assyrians”, around 25.000-30.000
Mr. Hadaya was member of the West- Aramean Syrian Catholics.
The funeral of Isoh Majeed Haday took place on 25-11-2006 at 10.00 hour. The service was conducted by the Catholic bishop Mgr. Baselius Circis Kasmousa in the Al- Tahra church in Baghdeda.
The body is attended from the church to the last resting-place.
