Before the Assyrian genocide , the Assyrian people were largely unmoved from their native lands which they had occupied for about 5,000 years . Although a handful of Assyrians had migrated to the United Kingdom during the Victorian era , the Assyrian diaspora began in earnest during World War I ( 1914-1918 ) as the Ottoman Empire conducted both large scale genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Assyrian people with the aid of local Kurdish , Iranian and Arab tribes . This genocide was coordinated alongside the Armenian genocide , Greek genocide and Great Famine of Mount Lebanon
Assyrian genocide
Assyrian genocide
Assyrian–Chaldean–Syriac diaspora