Simko assassinated an Assyrian politician and his armed guards . No . Stop being misleading . He assassinated a priest and his bodyguards . You expect the patriarch of the Church of the East to simply walk to a warlord and discuss ? He obviously needed some sort of reassurance through protection . It ' s world war one for goodness sake , you don ' t just walk to the guy massacring your people without some sort of protection . Here ' s what happened from the sourcesIn March , 1918 , Mar Benyamin along with 150 of his bodyguards were assassinated by Simko Shikak Ismail Agha Shikak , a Kurdish agha , in the town of Salmas Persia under a truce flag see Assyrian Genocide . Simko Shikak betrayed Mar Benyamin since Mar Benyamin wanted peace he was a priest , not a warlord like Simko Shikak . The source I gave you was even based on the accounts of a Christian at that time , who described the horrors Kurds were put through by Assyrians . Maybe read a first hand recount on what happened by one of the bodyguards . Simko simply retalliated for those massacres . Where does it say that Assyrians killed Kurds and then we got retaliated ? You ' re making this up . It was wrong , but If it was truly wrong , you would not say but becuase now you ' re trying to justify what he had done ! certainly not a genocideGenocide denying exposed , classy . here was no difference between them just that Simko happened to retaliate worse than the Assyrians probably expected him to . Yeah Mar Benyamin actually went out of his way to create peace between Assyrians and Kurds and what does this Kurdish nationalist that you praise do ? He goes and assassinates a priest in cold blood like the coward he was . I cannot reason with you if you deny that Simko ' s actions constituted a genocide . It is revolting that you claim to accept the genocide but cherrypick which events happened and falsify events . You also did not respond to my question which I have quoted below . Please make that the first thing you answer . Were the Armenians who tried to defend their families from being massacred committing genocide then ? I hope you gain new perspective on this and actually accept that Simko Shikak , like the pashas , was guilty of genocide and is still revered as a Kurdish hero within groups of Kurdish nationalists to this day .