Assyrians fought bravely for the British during WWI, in the hopes of a reciprocal relationship and assistance with the establishment of the Assyrian state, but we were betrayed. Hence the establishment of the state of Iraq.

Then there's this man. Some of us may not be alive today had he not saved some 50,000 of our ancestors from the Ottomans. Lest we forget.

Charles Bean (historian) wrote:

“Lieutenant General Sir Stanley George Savige; he served in the Australian Army in both world wars. He fought at Gallipoli and is the founder of Legacy Australia.

He commanded an operation which saved 50,000 Assyrians from certain death. Following the capture of Urmia by the Turkish army, Savige discovered tens of thousands of fleeing Assyrian refugees.

He, along with a small group of volunteers from his own force, along with refugees, formed a rearguard to hold back the Persian and Kurdish militias who were murdering the refugees and carrying off the young girls as slaves.

The stand made by Savige and his eight companions that evening and during half of the next day against hundreds of the enemy thirsting like wolves to get at the defenceless throng was as fine as any episode known to the present writer in the history of this war."