After the war ended , Yusuf was appointed as an assistant to a governor of Samara . But since Yusuf 's belief that a future Assyria depended on the sale of oil to Western nations from Bet-Nahrein , his homeland , coincided with French and British interests in that region , he was able to get promotion to Secretary Inspector for the State of Nineveh . Because this sale would also benefit the newly established Turkey , a perpetrator of the Assyrian genocide during World War 1 , Yusuf worked with other Assyrian leaders to establish an autonomous Assyrian country . Equally pressing was the formation of the new country , Iraq , in 1921 that could mean the end of any hope to establish an Assyrian country . Placed as the ruler of Iraq by the British was Faisal Al Husain , whom Yusuf would come to hate in later years
Assyrian genocide
Assyrian genocide
Yusuf Malek