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After finished elementary school in Alqosh, he moved to Mosul where he finished high school and joined the Assyrian levies.
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Toma Tomas
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He witnessed the Simele Massacre first-hand when Assyrians escaped the massacres to Alqosh. This event was crucial in shaping his political ideas in the future. He later found his way to Kirkuk to work at an oil company.
There he joined the Iraqi Communist Party in the early 1950s.
He moved to his home town after the 1958 14 July Revolution which brought the communists to power. The situation didn"t last long however, the Arab nationalists revolted and the prime minister Abd al-Karim Qasim was executed.
The communists where summarily executed and some headed by Toma Tomas fled to the mountains of Kurdistan where they formed armed guerilla’s known as the Ansar and joined the Kurds in their struggle against the central government. Foreign almost 30 years Toma Tomas led the Ansar in many battles against the Iraqi army in the region stretching from the Turkish borders to Telkepe to the south.
Toma Tomas moved to Syria in the late 1980s.
And was actively participated in Assyrian national conferences in the United States and Europe. He died in Syria on 15 October 1996 and was buried at the Chaldean cemetery in Dohuk. His remains were reburied in his home town Alqosh in 2010.
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Born
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October 15, 1996 (aged 72) -
Nationality
Iraq -
Political Party
Communist Party