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“I may not have a country with boundaries, but my country is in me. My country is in my soul and in my heart. I am Assyria.”

Rosie Malek-Yonan

As quoted in The Crimson Field.
The Crimson Field (2005)

“Anytime the western countries go to war in the Middle East, it becomes a religious war.”

Rosie Malek-Yonan

As quoted in "For Iraqi Christians, Money Bought Survival" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/world/middleeast/26christians.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&ref=middleeast&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin#125%u201CAnyt427+1e60d401 (26 June 2008), by Andrew E. Kramer, The New York Times, New York: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., p. 1.

“The recognition and acceptance of a genocide, and mass murder of nations is not to merely point a finger at a tyrant guilty of those crimes. It is acceptance of facts and truths with the ultimate goal to mend bridges between the races. It is not to merely condemn but to create the first step towards world peace.”

Rosie Malek-Yonan

Speech at the House of Lords in London, United Kingdom. As quoted in "The House of Lords (London)" http://www.aina.org/news/20080423181206.htm (12 March 2008), by R. Malek-Yonan, Assyrian International News Agency.

“Iraq's 'liberation' has become the 'oppression' of Assyrians.”

Rosie Malek-Yonan

As quoted in "Congressional Hearing: Assyrian Plight" http://www.thecrimsonfield.com/rosiemalek-yonan.html (30 June 2006), The Crimson Field.
The Plight of Religious Minorities (June 2005)

“When we perpetually allow the practice of genocide and holocaust and consent to the denial of such actions to linger for decades as in the case of the Assyrian, Armenian and Pontic Greek Genocides, we are in essence consenting to denial as a compromise. Denial is not compromise.”

Rosie Malek-Yonan

Speech to the House of Commons in London, United Kingdom. As quoted in "The House of Commons (London)" http://www.aina.org/news/20080423181206.htm (24 April 2008), by R. Malek-Yonan, Assyrian International News Agency.