Ladies and gentlemen present, Mr. President, members of the presidency, good morning, In my name and in the name of the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian popular council, we want to thank you for inviting us to convey the suffering of our people and demand its rights to life. We are the owners of the oldest civilization known to man; the Babylonian and Assyrian civilization from the country between the two rivers, which today is called Iraq. About four thousand years ago (1790 B.C.), the Babylonian King Hammurabi laid down the first law recorded in history in Mesopotamia in Babylon. It was a law divided in 282 legal articles addressing all the problems of life, punishing the abuser and compensating the harmed, and regulating the rights and duties of the members of society. Today, Mr. President, we have become a minority. We, the owners of the epic of Gilgamesh, who was searching for death and immortality, and of the first guitar, whose strings humans played. Has the international community [ever] wondered why we became a minority? Was it really by our own free will or [was it] by the sword, and the exorbitant taxes and tributes, which were imposed on us since the Islamic era? We were oppressed by rulers and the state considered us their personal property, a gift from God, and the rulers commanded in the name of God. The God, in which we believed in is a merciful, and fair God, but we [see] him today as an unjust God [because of] the rulers, who rule in his name. If we believed in God, this would be one of our rights as human beings individually or collectively, but to be judged in the name of God, this is the problem. Do we need to recount the massacres that were committed against our Chaldean Syriac Assyrian people in the name of Jihad? Do we need to count the massacres that were committed against the Yazidis? If this was the past of Iraq and the region, today we stand in front of the so-called organization of Islamic State “ISIS” and the infidel forces, who want to cling to the past, and spread by all criminal means ideological tyranny under various labels, clinging to a law created one thousand four hundred years ago intended to be imposed on us through killing, displacement, and genocide, as is happening to us today after the fall of Mosul, the Nineveh Plains, and Sinjar after the 10. of June 2014. What distinguishes this phase of the history of our Christian people is the fast attempts by the Islamist extremists to gouge our roots from our historical regions, where we were killed, displaced, uprooted, and our women enslaved. More than 1086 sons of our Christian people were killed since the sectarian war in Iraq after 2003. 57 of our daughters and sons; 33 of our women and 24 of our men and children were enslaved. [This i]n addition to the displacement of more than 150 thousand sons of our people from the Nineveh Plains to the Kurdistan region, and more than 25 thousand to the neighbouring countries, Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon, after most of the sons of our people were emptied from all the provinces of Iraq.