Flashback to Ancestral Suffering through Unimaginable Ethnic-Cleansing Genocide
Why we are as we are – because of the History no one talks about anymore.
At the root of the problems we face as an endangered micro-community, foremost it is that our once valorous, victorious, virtuous Ethnic Persian Zarathushtrish Religio-Culture popularly known as the Persian Empire (circa 559BC to 651AD), got savaged by genocidal ethnic-cleansing. That included but was not limited to plunder, pillage, murder, mutilations, rape, sale into sex-slavery, forced conversions which made our Ancestral survivors a shadow of their original state of being. Here’s a start to that flashback.
Two centuries of Arab occupation of Iran was Zarathushti Ground-Zero. Even worst, except for some historians, most Parsi and Irani have no idea of what it could have been like.
Find the book online, read and take stock of what you represent as Parsi or Irani descendant.
Compared to Irani brethren who have for centuries endured persecution, Parsees are so disconnected from the woes of our world, that real-life imagery accompanied with a few words is the best medium to depict what Zarathushti Perso-Iranian Ground-Zero may have looked like.
Whilst no news media was there to record the atrocities and no entity intervened to save our Ancestors, the following moving images are real-life refugees who faced genocide.
Imagine as a man that you and are family are forced to escape men intent to rape & kill. Back then It could have been no different an image of widowed Ancestral mothers, sisters, spouses carrying themselves and the young, away from the danger of ethnic cleansing and slavery as it happened only 10 years ago in 2014.
Imagine getting stuck whilst trying to escape
Imagine those who could not escape anymore, or had to escape without their loved ones, and live with that traumatic guilt and memory of missing them from being forced to leave them behind.
Imagine being like helpless cattle
Imagine being helpless but needing to rest on the run
Imagine desperation, thirst, and starvation which our ancestors would have faced
Imagine these sorts of words our Ancestors would have spoken and cried about for centuries after. Only that unlike 2014, there was no one to hear their voices, and we good-for-nothing descendants flicking TV channels wouldn’t even think that such was the extent or worse that happened to our Ancestors.
This moving video was still up, last time I saw it. You may wish to look it on YouTube. It is about a heart-wrenching speech by a Yazidi MP Vian Dakhil in the Iraqi Parliament.
You, like Kurds and Yazidis, are the direct descendant of those that survived atrocities and genocide, causing them to seek refuge in India, be Identified as Parsi, or survive dangerously in the mountains of Iran, to be then Identified Irani by Parsis.
Just like sometimes the best of soldiers, friends, spouses and family turn on each other, there appear to be parallels of our people turning on each other, where doing the opposite of what one is expected to do, or is told to do, feels the right thing to do.
Comparison of Suffering
| In Iran | In India |
|---|---|
| Being reduced to Kaafir, Infidel, untouchable status in their own homeland | Being reduced to refugee status. |
| Live in fear of womenkind being abducted, raped or married off to a muslim, anytime | Having to live in ramshackle hutments at coastal, sea-level, mosquito infested swampy or humid forest terrain. |
| Where our men could not longer bear arms | Where our men had no right to bear arms, which would have been psychologically devastating. |
| Where our men and women could no longer ride a horse, but only a mule | Where our women no longer had the freedom ride horses as they did in Iran. |
| Where our people could not trade freely without fear of reprisal | Where our women no longer could wear their Salwar-Kameez type outfit which gave them free movement, and having to wrap themselves in a Saree. |
| Where they had to pay Jizya but still get treated as scum | Our people to not speak our own language and adopt Gujrati. |
| Where they had to retreat from living in Iran’s otherwise beautiful high plateau to harsher environments. | For a Sun-Adoring Religious People to no longer conduct their most important milestone of marriage in hours of Sunlight, but instead to do so after Sunset. |
It may be un-imaginable today to comprehend what successive generations of Zarathushtees went through before some relative peace and prosperity became possible.