Aramean Democratic Organization

Aim

Objectives

• To build an opinion, on national as well as on international level, for the Aramean cause.
• To work for recapture the stolen geographical, historical and cultural rights of the Aramean people.
• Through political and mass media efforts, work for the foundation of an Aramean land in the historical homeland.
• To raise awareness regarding preservation of the Aramean linguistic, literary and cultural heritage from the systematic and governamental organized Arabization, Turkification, Kurdification, Iranization and Islamisation.
• To counteract the assimilation in the diaspora as well as in the homeland, and constantly work for the union of the Aramean people with the national cause, namely the future land of the Aramean, with the starting point from Lebanon.
• Gathering and return of the Aramean diaspora to the eventual independent state of "Aramea" established in the heartland of the Aramean Nation's historical homeland within present day central Syria.
• Reconstituting into Aramean nation, the various diasporic Aramean communities as well as dispersed Aramaic-speaking communities, who have been divided, renamed, misnamed and dispersed throughout the region by the ongoing processes of Arabization, Turkification, Kurdification, Iranization and Islamization. Most of these communities have suffered under constant Arab, Turkish, Kurdish and Persian occupation for centuries and many consider the cultural genocidal campaign of the occupation to be responsible for the varying names, which these communities are known by today.

  Principles

1. The Arameans as people possess a nation's all capacities such as a language, as well cultural and ethnic identity. But it is an oppressed people, whose original land is occupied by the occupational forces of Syrian Arab Republic.
2. Citizens of the Aramean nation are individuals belonging to the following communities:
3. * Syriac Orthodox Church /Mostly known as Aramean Orthodox Christians
4. * Syriac Catholic Church /Mostly known as Aramean Catholic Christians
5. * Melkite Greek Catholic Church's members mostly identify as ethnic Arameans
6. * Gabaadin's, Bakhaa's and Maalula's Christians /Mostly known as Aramean-speaking Christians
7. * Maronite Church /Some of them identify as Aramean Catholic Christians,

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