Aramean Democratic Organization

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Aramean Democratic Organization (Syriac: ܛܘܟܣܐ ܐܪܡܝܐ ܕܝܡܘܩܪܛܝܐ‎, romanized: Ṭukoso Oromoyo Dimoqraṭoyo; Turoyo: M’takasto Suryayto Dimokratayto; Arabic: التنظيم الآرامي الديمقراطي‎) also known as ArDO, was founded in 1988^[1] and is an Aramean political party in Lebanon.^[2][3][4][5] The Aramean Democratic Organization's goal is to reestablish Aramean independence and reconstituting the Aramean-Syriac Nation by reclaiming the heartland of the ancient ancestral homeland most of which lies within today's Syria and Lebanon.

Aim[]

To establish an independent democratic Aramean state on the land of Aram with Lebanon as a point of departure.^{[clarification needed]}

Objectives[]

• To build an opinion, on national as well as on international level, for the Aramean cause.^{[citation needed]}
• To work for recapture the stolen geographical, historical and cultural rights of the Aramean people.^{[citation needed]}
• Through political and mass media efforts, work for the foundation of an Aramean land in the historical homeland.^{[citation needed]}
• 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.^{[citation needed]}
• 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.^{[citation needed]}
• 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.^{[citation needed]}
• 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.^{[citation needed]}

Flag[]

The Aramean flag

See also[]

• Arameans
• World Council of Arameans (Syriacs)
• List of political parties in Lebanon

References[]

External links[]

• Aramaic Democratic Organization - Official party site

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