We are the children of Beth Nahrin.
Born between rivers that remember us.
In our veins run the blood and breath of Akkad and Babylon,
the resolve of Assyria,
the endurance of Aram,
the living word of the Syriacs.
We are an ancient nation,
the continuation of those who first shaped the idea of the state,
who carved law into stone,
who offered civilization to humanity before history knew its own name.
We did not vanish.
We were pressed down, fractured, muted.
But silence is not our nature—
and its reign has ended.
For centuries our identity has been broken apart by design.
One people forced into many names,
our story rewritten by чуж hands,
our past clouded with deliberate falsehoods.
To separate Syriacs from Assyria,
to tear Arameans from Babylon,
is not confusion but strategy—
a calculated attempt to weaken the people of Beth Nahrin.
This is interference by intent.
To resist it is not a choice, but a national duty.
Our identity is not folklore.
It is not an artifact sealed behind glass.
It lives.
It resists.
It stands upright and demands truth.
The rising of Beth Nahrin’s peoples is not optional;
it is history reclaiming its course.
The unbroken civilizational line—from Akkad to the Syriac word—
must return as presence,
as power,
as a political, cultural, and national force.
A revolution of language against erasure.
A revolution of memory against forgetting.
A revolution of unity against division.
A revolution of honor against surrender.
Syriac and Aramaic are not merely tongues of prayer;
they are instruments of survival.
When a people lose their language,
the ground beneath them loosens,
and the future turns away.
To teach our language is not culture alone—
it is responsibility.
To speak it at the table,
in classrooms,
on the streets,
in writing and in politics
is an act of nationhood.
The diaspora is not scattering.
It is expansion.
From Europe to America,
from Australia to distant shores,
the children of Beth Nahrin stand at the forefront.
Not confined to associations,
not satisfied with memory alone,
but called to conscious, political, ideological organization.
The vanguard of this struggle is the youth.
Without a generation that knows its name,
claims its history,
speaks its language,
and refuses fear,
no revolution can endure.
Our youth must be raised not on folklore,
but on awareness.
The Assyrian–Syriac–Aramean divide is artificial,
a fracture designed for our weakening.
We are one people,
with one memory,
one history,
one destiny still unfolding.
Liberation is born
from shared identity
and united will.
The people of Beth Nahrin will not be erased.
We are not the ruins of yesterday.
We are the architects of tomorrow.
Our national renaissance is not only our conscience—
it is a call to the conscience of humanity itself.
This is no longer the time to wait,
but to organize.
No longer to whisper,
but to raise our voices.
No longer to forget,
but to demand accountability.
The dawn has broken.
Beth Nahrin is rising.
The renaissance has begun.
By Tony Vergili – Co-President of ESU
