OCTOBER
6 … CHALDEAN MARTYR’S DAY
In 521 B.C., the
Babylonians appointed their own king, Nebuchadnezzar IV, and the city rebelled.
Darius’ gigantic army defeated the rebel army and captured Babylon. Then the Chaldean
king who died
fighting to the last breath and his small army (Dead or alive) were impaled
inside the city.
In 482 B.C., Babylon
rebelled against the occupation of the Median Empire, killing the Persian ruler
and defeating the Persian army. Xerxes, the king, sent an enormous army under
the command of his brother-in-law to capture the city in the beginning of
October. The Persian army destroyed the temples and took away the idol of the
Babylonian god Mardukh and once again, over three thousand Chaldean
revolutionists were impaled inside the city on or around October 6, 482
BC.
Since 2013, the day October 6, 2013 was
approved by most Chaldean political parties, cultural and socials organizations
and activists all over the world. October 6 became the official Chaldean
Martyr’s Day.
Chaldean Martyr's Day on October 6 is not just
about honoring and remembering those who fell defending the Chaldean name
throughout our long and deep history, but it is all about how we keep those sacrifices
by our ancestors alive. It is also about keeping the Chaldean Nation and its
diehard people free from threats of terror and persecution.
If the blood of the martyrs is the seed of our
nation, then our Chaldean nation is the blood vessel of the prosperous future.
~ Amer Hanna Fatuhi, Visual Artist and Historian.
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