Sargon Dadesho
Assyrian nationalist
Sargon Dadesho (Syriac: ܣܪܓܘܢ ܕܕܝܫܘܥ, Arabic: سركون داديشو; born September 18, 1948, in Habbaniyah, Iraq) is an Iraqi-American author, broadcaster, activist, and nationalist leader of Assyrian ethnicity. Based in Ceres, California, Dadesho has had an extensive career in Assyrian politics, starting from the 1970s with his height in political activity coming after the US invasion of Iraq.
Dadesho is most well known for being the subject of a failed assassination attempt, which resulted in a lawsuit that he won against the Iraqi government. He was also awarded $2.4 million from confiscated Iraqi government assets in 2003.
Biography
Dadesho was born on September 18, 1948, in the city of Habbaniyah in the Al Anbar Governorate of Iraq. He had just graduated high school by the time his parents left the country for California in 1965, where he has lived ever since. The roots of his activism stem back to his college years, when he began to read more seriously about Assyrian history after wanting to understand why his family left Iraq. He had received degrees from Modesto Junior College, Stanislaus State University, and Chico State University.
Dadesho's political career is said to have begun around the 1970s, when he was involved with the Assyrian Universal Alliance. However, Dadesho desired to find a different and more militant solution to ending persecution against Assyrians in Iraq, and so he left the AUA to found the Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party in California in 1974.
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