Le rêve brisé des Assyro-Chaldéens
Collection L'Histoire à vif
320 pages - mars 2011
22,00€
Mésopotamiens, chrétiens depuis deux mille ans, les Assyro-Chaldéens furent remplis d'espoir au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale. Ils ne sont pas des inconnus pour l'Occident. Les premiers contacts remontent au XIIIe siècle. Au XVIIe siècle, la France passe même pour être leur protectrice. Pourtant, au XXe siècle, leur destin bascule. Durant la Grande Guerre, tout comme les Arméniens, ils sont victimes d'un terrible génocide en 1915. Dès l'armistice, les Assyro-Chaldéens s'enthousiasment pour les idées de liberté et d'autodétermination. Le rêve d'une patrie les saisit. Lors de la conférence de la Paix à Paris, ils soumettent pas moins de onze mémorandums aux grandes puissances, tandis que sept délégations sont présentes à Paris. L'historien Arnold Joseph Toynbee en fournit un éclairage inédit. La France et la Grande-Bretagne sont en rivalité pour l'hégémonie sur les territoires de l'ex-Empire ottoman. La question assyro-chaldéenne sera-t-elle abordée dans ce grand jeu d'échecs que se livrent ces deux Grands ? Ces pages d'histoire insuffisamment connues sont ici décryptées à travers différentes sources dont certaines sont inédites. Les épreuves vécues par les Assyro-Chaldéens durant la Grande Guerre sont à méditer pour comprendre leur présent. Aujourd'hui seront-ils, une nouvelle fois, les grands oubliés de cette tragédie collective qui se déroule sous nos yeux en Irak ? Succédant à la SDN, que fait l'ONU pour protéger ces minorités autochtones ? Pour y répondre, il est indispensable de savoir ce qui s'est joué lors de la conférence de la Paix, entre 1919 et 1925. Cet ouvrage y contribue.
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Mesopotamians, Christians for 2000 years, the Assyro-Chaldeans were filled with hope after WW1. These people are not strangers to the West - first contacts go back to the 13th century. In the 17th century, France was even viewed as a protector. Yet in the 20th century, their fate took a dramatic turn. During the Great War, like the Armenians, they were the victims of a terrible genocide in 1915. As soon as the armistice was declared, the Assyro-Chaldeans were excited by ideas of freedom and self-government, seized by the dream of a homeland. During the Peace Conference in Paris, they submitted 11 memoranda to the main powers, and 7 delegations were present in Paris. The historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee casts new light on this period. France and the UK were rivals for control of the territories of the former Ottoman Empire. Was the Assyro-Chaldean issue treated in the context of the vast chess game played between the two great powers? These little-known pages of history are investigated in this book through different sources, some of them previously unpublished. The ordeals experienced by the Assyro-Chaldeans during WW1 have to be borne in mind if we are to understand the present. Today, will they once again be the forgotten party in the collective tragedy now taking place, in front of our eyes, in Iraq? After the LON, what is the UNO doing to protect native minorities? To answer that question, it is necessary to know what took place at the Peace Conference between 1919 and 1925. This book will tell you.
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Mesopotamians, Christians for 2000 years, the Assyro-Chaldeans were filled with hope after WW1. These people are not strangers to the West - first contacts go back to the 13th century. In the 17th century, France was even viewed as a protector. Yet in the 20th century, their fate took a dramatic turn. During the Great War, like the Armenians, they were the victims of a terrible genocide in 1915. As soon as the armistice was declared, the Assyro-Chaldeans were excited by ideas of freedom and self-government, seized by the dream of a homeland. During the Peace Conference in Paris, they submitted 11 memoranda to the main powers, and 7 delegations were present in Paris. The historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee casts new light on this period. France and the UK were rivals for control of the territories of the former Ottoman Empire. Was the Assyro-Chaldean issue treated in the context of the vast chess game played between the two great powers? These little-known pages of history are investigated in this book through different sources, some of them previously unpublished. The ordeals experienced by the Assyro-Chaldeans during WW1 have to be borne in mind if we are to understand the present. Today, will they once again be the forgotten party in the collective tragedy now taking place, in front of our eyes, in Iraq? After the LON, what is the UNO doing to protect native minorities? To answer that question, it is necessary to know what took place at the Peace Conference between 1919 and 1925. This book will tell you.
- Dimensions : 145x215x17
- ISBN : 9782204091824
- Poids : 410 grammes
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