" They had dug trenches and were determined on destroying the Assyrians and taking their properties and possessions . Assyrians painfully remembered the massacre of 1933 in Simele and the surrounding villages and pledged " Never Again ! " . They remembered the raping and pillaging of defenseless Assyrian villagers . " By 1942 , the Iraq Levies consisted of a Headquarters , a Depot , Specialist Assyrian companies , 40 service companies and the 1st Parachute Company , which consisted of 75 % Assyrian and 25 % Kurd . The new Iraq Levies Disciplinary Code was based largely on the Indian Army Act
the massacre
Simele massacre
Iraq Levies