IRAQ MASSACRE
700 ASSYRIANS KILLED. SOLDIERS RUN AMUCK. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Calcutta, August 28. The veil is gradually lifting from recent events in Iraq. There is now no doubt that a massacre tok place in the village of Sinnel, 40 miles from Mosul, in which it is alleged that the fleeing Assyrian Christians passed the night. According to the Baghdad correspondent of the Calcutta Statesman, the soldiers of the Iraq Army entered the village and proceeded to butcher the 700 inhabitants, all of whom were unarmed.
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Southland Times, Issue 22107, 30 August 1933, Page 7
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87IRAQ MASSACRE Southland Times, Issue 22107, 30 August 1933, Page 7
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