Assyrian Democratic Movement
The Assyrian Democratic Movement ( Syriac -Aramaic: ܙ ܘ ܥ ܐ ܕ ܝ ܡ ܘ ܩ ܪ ܛ ܝ ܐ ܐ ܬ ܘ ܪ ܝ ܐ Zowaa Demoqrataya Atoraya, Arabic الحركة الديمقراطية الآشورية; abbreviation ADM), also known as Zowaa, is an Assyrian political party in Iraq. She is currently the only ethnically based Assyrians party that was elected to the Iraqi parliament.
History
The Assyrian Democratic Party was established on 12 April 1979, to do with the political objectives of the Assyrian people in Iraq enough. This was done in response to the oppressive brutality of the Ba'ath regime and its intention to expropriate the lands of the Assyrians forcibly. The movement began in 1982 to even the armed struggle under the leadership of Yonadam Kanna against the Iraqi regime and joined the Iraqi Kurdistan Front in the early 1990s at. Yonadam Kanna was a target of the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein for many years.
Due to the successful lobbying of influential Assyrians in the United States and by Congressman Henry Hyde, the American government apparatus explained the Assyrian Democratic Movement to an officially recognized Iraqi opposition movement. In a memorandum dated 9 December 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush called the two items four and five of the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 as a means from which it allowed the United States to provide financial resources of the Assyrian Democratic Movement and other Iraqi opposition movements. Yonadam Kanna attended a meeting of Iraqi opposition leaders in September 2002 in New York City in part, as well as at the London Conference of the Opposition in December 2002. In February 2003, addressed Kanna both the Iraqi opposition leaders, as well as the U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad at a conference in northern Iraq. Just hours before the US-led war against Iraq in March 2003 stressed the importance of Kanna coming war in the history of the Assyrian people. He reported that some Assyrians left the cities for the villages and urged the Diaspora Assyrians, to deliver humanitarian aid to their "brothers ".
Today's policy
Yonadam Kanna is the current leader of the Assyrian Democratic Organization. He served as a member of the former Iraqi Governing Council, before it was dissolved. The aim was thus to make room for the office of elected body that was formed after the parliamentary elections of January 2005. The movement has since been represented in the parliament of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region. Party members and Assyrians are generally the focus of increasing insurgent attacks since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
The party describes itself as to verteigigen a democratic and political organization of national and patriotic to the people and their legitimate rights and to fight under the banner of a free, democratic Iraq. The declaration of the party includes the call for official recognition of the rights of the Assyrians and the unity of the people in spite of their different church affiliations: Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch and the Church of the East ( various Christian denominations within the Aramean population). The movement supports the idea of a federal Iraq and has good relations with other Assyrian and Kurdish groups that are present in northern Iraq, as well as the Shiite leaders in southern Iraq.
The Assyrian Democratic Movement runs the broadcast media Ashur Ashur TV and radio and published the newspaper Bahra.