ABSTRACT
Since the collapse of the Assyrian Empire more than 2,500 years ago, the Assyrian (also known as Syriac Christian and/or Chaldean) people faced a struggle for survival and developed a tradition of resistance. Gassani in the West and Lahmi in East, as the last Christian states in the Near East, could not withstand against the rise of political Islam, and Christian political union was history in the Near East. The life of the Assyrians, along with that of other non-Muslim peoples, became a battle of survival. This chapter outlines a few remarkable cases of resistance of the Assyrian people during the genocide in their historical homeland.
