Right , Scrooge McDuck without any redeeming qualities . <| sep |> I can ' t remember if it was this video by Ashen Hollow or this video by Silver Mont but it had a lot of strong evidence to her being be there by choice . I marathon these too much and they ' re starting to run together ! <| sep |> Excuse if it has been mentioned but , war . <| sep |> What I mean is what Simko did was not a genocide . No , he contributed to the Assyrian genocide . You ' re effectively denying genocide by saying he didn ' t because 1 . He ' s assassinated an Assyrian leader like the Ottomans did with Armenian intellectuals . 2 . He drove Assyrians out of their land and massacred civilians in cold blood . The above would be genocide because he wanted to get rid of the Assyrian people and he engaged in ethnic cleansing . I wouldn ' t be surprised if he killed Armenians as well because we shared some villages with Armenians in Urmia . The Armenian genocide was a genocide because it ' s aim was clear getting rid off the Armenians . However , Kurds and Assyrians had been killing each other for centuries , and Simko ' s raids and massacres just like those of the Assyrians were just another episode in a history of hostility between the 2 nationsYou cannot be serious . Simko himself had an aim to remove the Assyrians , did he not ? It was no different to what the Ottoman officers did . You ' re justifying the genocide of Assyrians by saying that . AssyrianKurdish alliances were based on geographical locations . However , when one side decides to ethnically cleanse the other , then that is genocide ! You ' re in effect questioning whether or not Assyrians ever had a genocide . You ' re defending Simko , a notorious tribal leader who participated in the genocide by claiming that the other side defended themselves and killed Kurdish civilians . However , it was never the purpose of the Assyrians to ethnically cleanse Kurds . Were the who tried to defend their families from being massacred committing genocide then ? NOTE Obviously as a Kurdish nationalist you would want to defend the name of the Kurds , like any nationalist would do me included . However , there is a point where you must realise that this is a dark moment in the history of Kurds which should be reflected upon and accepted it was genocide , instead of denying it constitutes genocide because that does not create a difference between you or Turkish nationalists that you despise . I say this purely out of respect , if you really want to accept the genocide , then accept all wrongdoing . Do not cherrypick what is to be recognised . Further , if we want to know whether it was genocide or not , find a random unbiased Armenian user to decide whether or not it is as a neutral perspective . Have a good day .