Assyrian Democratic Movement
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Assyrian Democratic Movement
ܙܘܥܐ ܕܝܡܘܩܪܛܝܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܐ الحركة الديمقراطية الآشورية |
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| Leader | Yonadam Kanna |
| Founded | April 12, 1979 |
| Headquarters | Baghdad, Iraq |
| Student wing | Chaldo-Assyrian Student Union |
| Military wing | Nineveh Plain Protection Units |
| Ideology | Protects and upholds the interests and rights of the Assyrian people in Iraq and Conservatism |
| Colours | Purple |
| Seats in the Council of Representatives of Iraq: |
2 / 325
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| Seats in the Kurdistan Parliament: |
2 / 111
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| Website | |
| http://www.zowaa.org/ ,- English | |
The Assyrian Democratic Movement (Syriac: ܙܘܥܐ ܕܝܡܘܩܪܛܝܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܐ; Zawʻá Demoqraṭáyá ʼÁṯuráyá) popularly known as Zowaa (Syriac: The Movement) is an ethnic Assyrian political party situated in Iraq, and is currently the only Assyrian-based political party to be voting within the Iraqi parliament.
The party was established on April 12, 1979 to satisfy the political objectives of the Assyrian people in Iraq, in response to the oppressive brutality of the Al-Baath regime and its attempts to forcibly expropriate ethnic Assyrians from their native lands. The movement took up armed struggle against the Iraqi regime in 1982 under the leadership of Yonadam Kanna, and joined the IKF in early 1990s. Yonadam Kanna in particular was a target of the Saddam Hussein Ba'ath regime for many years.
Due to successful lobbying from influential Assyrian-Americans and from Congressman Henry Hyde, American President George W. Bush designated the ADM an officially recognized Iraqi opposition movement. In a December 9, 2002 memorandum, President Bush invoked both articles four and five of the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 as a means of allowing the United States government to provide financial resources to the ADM and other Iraqi opposition groups. Kanna himself participated in a September 2002 meeting of Iraqi opposition leaders in New York and addressed the London conference of Iraqi opposition leaders in December 2002. In February 2003, Kanna addressed both Iraqi opposition leaders and U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad at a conference in northern Iraq. Just hours prior to the American-led war against Iraq in March 2003, Kanna stressed the importance of the coming war for the history of the Assyrian people. He noted that some Assyrians were leaving the cities for the villages and urged diaspora Assyrians to provide humanitarian aid to their brethren.
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