IRAK MASSACRE
Unarmed People Butchered CORRESPONDENT’S REPORT Calcutta, August 28. The veil is gradually being lifted on recent events in Irak. There is no doubt that the massacre took place at the village of Simel, forty miles from Mosul, in which the alleged fleeing Assyrian Christians passed the night. According to tbe Bagdad correspondent of the Calcutta “Statesman” soldiers of the Irak army entered the village and proceeded to butcher the seven hundred inhabitants, all unarmed.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 287, 30 August 1933, Page 9
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76IRAK MASSACRE Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 287, 30 August 1933, Page 9
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