Seyfo

Between Turabdin and Turlebnon Mountains
 
The Levant Christians went through many massacres since year 632 and the last one hundred years are no exception. The enemy is the same and the victim is the same. 
The enemy is radical islamism and the victim is the Aramean people belonging to many oriental churches. 
The islamic state of the ottomans spread hunger and death among the Maronite's in the Lebanese mountain in the end of the 18th century when over 200 000 people were killed in different ways. The Syriacs of Turabdin in Anatolia got their share of massacres when over 500 000 innocent people got killed by the Turkish Soldiers and Kurdish ¨neighbors¨. in the beginning of the 19th century massacres were held on Syria's Christians like the Greek orthodox and on the Assyrians, Chaldean and Syriac's of Iraq. 
 
In the modern days we continued to experience blood by the sword, the Seyfo witch is the name that the Christian Arameans/Syriac's call the genocides committed on them in places like Turabdin. 
Lebanon saw many massacres between 1975-1990 like the one in Damour in 1976 and the Mountain war in 1983 and others. Iraqi Arameans from all churches got their share of persecution, violence and killings from the beginning of the 20s century until today. Syria's Greek orthodox and Syriac's are no exception and as soon as the regime got shaken up all protective preparations were gone and many Christian Aramean villages and areas were cleared of its indigenous people. 
 
The places where the Christians got armed and fought for their lives are the places that Christian Life is proudly surviving and flourishing. All Christians in the Middle East that didn't get arms and fought were killed or driven away from their lands whenever a bad Islamic leader or a bad party or tribe got the idea of wanting more Power or just didn't like the religious and ethnic pluralist reality.
 
We as Aramean Christians in the Levant should never except to be slaughtered without a fight. 
We should help each other across the different Church loyalties and the modern state borders.
 
 
# Arameans is the name of the indigenous people of the Levant (Mashreq) consisting of some 8 Church affiliations.