Ghazi of Iraq
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Ghazi ibn Faisal was King of Iraq from 1933 to 1939 having been briefly Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Syria in 1920. He was born in Mecca, the only son of Faisal I. He died in a car crash in 1939.
The then Crown Prince Ghazi of Iraq in 1927 (centre of the front row)
King Ghazi postage from 1949
King Ghazi and Emir Saud on horses.
Simele massacre
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The Simele massacre, also known as the Assyrian affair, was committed by the Kingdom of Iraq, led by Bakr Sidqi, during a campaign systematically targeting the Assyrians in and around Simele in August 1933.
Aerial view of Batarshah in northern Iraq, an Assyrian village destroyed by Arabs and Kurds in August 1933
Bakr Sidqi led the Iraqi Army during the Massacre of Simele.
The Lethbridge Herald, 18 August 1933
The Assyrian town of Alqosh where a massacre was planned on its population.