Bakr Sidqi [SEP] conflict
He later attended the British Staff College and was considered one of Iraq's most competent officers. He lectured in the military school and achieved the rank of colonel in 1928 and brigadier general in 1933.
In August 1933, Sidqi ordered the Royal Iraqi Army to march to the north to crush so-called 'militant Assyrian separatists' in Simele, near Mosul, which led to 3,000 Assyrian civilians being killed in the region in the Simele massacre.
The British praised him in 1934 as "the best commander in the
Bakr Sidqi
Bakr Sidqi al-Askari () was an Iraqi general of Kurdish origin, born in 1890 in Kirkuk and assassinated on August 12, 1937, at Mosul.
Early life.
Bakr Sidqi was born to Kurdish family in ‘Askar, a Kurdish village or in Kirkuk'. He had purposefully exploited his birthplace according to political necessities. Like many ambitious men who lived in the Ottoman Empire, Sidqi joined the Ottoman army as a young man. At a young age, he was sympathetic already to