{"id":11830,"date":"2015-04-04T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=11830"},"modified":"2015-04-13T17:55:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T22:55:15","slug":"video-how-isis-is-affecting-syrian-christians-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/video-how-isis-is-affecting-syrian-christians-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: How ISIS is affecting Assyrian Christians in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?s=marika+bastrmajian\" target=\"_blank\">By: Marika Bastrmajian<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On February 24, 2015, militants of the so-called Islamic State raided several villages in the Hassakeh province in Syria, capturing large groups of Christian Assyrians, an ethnic minority indigenous to the region.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One of the villages, Tal Shamiram, located about 50 miles southwest of the Hassakeh capital, was home to several family members of 37-year-old Mike Youkhanna, a native Chicagoan maintenance worker. Of those captured were members of Youkhanna\u2019s uncle\u2019s family, including a six-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"ASSYRIAN VIMEO2\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/123911102?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Youkhanna sat in a red armchair at his local Assyrian American Cultural Center in Lincolnwood running the gamut of emotions as he told the story of his relatives\u2019 capture. At times he held back tears, speaking slowly; other times he furrowed his brow and chose his words carefully so as not to say\u00a0anything that would put\u00a0his captured family members in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>The areas attacked by ISIS are small villages of several hundred inhabitants, most of who live off of their land. But despite their small geographic size, news of this devastation traveled thousands of miles almost immediately.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11831\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-18-at-6.31.49-PM.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11831 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-18-at-6.31.49-PM-300x169.png\" alt=\"Vigil held at Assyrian Church of the East - St. Andrew's Parish\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-18-at-6.31.49-PM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-18-at-6.31.49-PM.png 968w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vigil held at Assyrian Church of the East &#8211; St. Andrew&#8217;s Parish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWord gets out from people that are around those areas, those who were hostages and then released,\u201d Youkhanna said.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately a week later, ISIS released an unknown number of Assyrian hostages, an act that is baffling to some given the militant group\u2019s hostile track record.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone they capture, they kill. So the question that runs through my mind is releasing some people\u2014is a good question of why would you do that?\u201d Youkhanna said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11834\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11834\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-18-at-6.35.52-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11834 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-18-at-6.35.52-PM-300x168.png\" alt=\"Church-goers pray at a vigil held at Assyrian Church of the East - St. Andrew's Parish\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-18-at-6.35.52-PM-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-18-at-6.35.52-PM.png 967w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Church-goers pray at a vigil held at Assyrian Church of the East &#8211; St. Andrew&#8217;s Parish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many in the region lack the resources required to fight off future attacks. Joseph Tamraz, the chairman of the Universal Assyrian Alliance in Chicago says while all types of aid are needed, monetary assistance is what will provide the biggest return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey need money, and they need more help to get out of that situation. We have a lot of hostages that have been taken, and we have a lot of people that have been killed, our churches have been burned, so they need a different kind of help,\u201d Tamraz said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11833\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11833\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-18-at-6.46.54-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11833 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-18-at-6.46.54-PM-300x167.png\" alt=\"Assyrian American Cultural Centern in Lincolnwood\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-18-at-6.46.54-PM-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-18-at-6.46.54-PM-672x372.png 672w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-18-at-6.46.54-PM.png 968w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assyrian American Cultural Center in Lincolnwood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t want food they\u2019re telling us, they don\u2019t want clothing, you know,\u201d Youkhanna said. &#8220;In a situation like this, I would rather be in some shorts, and no shoes, but have military weapons, to move forward and take action towards a people like this who are trying to destroy a people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Marika Bastrmajian On February 24, 2015, militants of the so-called Islamic State raided several villages in the Hassakeh province in Syria, capturing large groups of Christian Assyrians, an ethnic minority indigenous to the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":12131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public-affairs","category-winter-2015"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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