MASSACRE IN IRAK.
VEIL GRADUALLY LIFTING. SLAUGHTER OF ASSYRIANS' REPORTED. 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 Sirnel, forty miles from Mosul, in which the alleged fleeing Assyrian Christians passed the night. According to the 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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Wairarapa Age, 30 August 1933, Page 5
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