The ceremony was held on Wednesday 19 September 2020 and attended by members of the community.
President of the Ckaldean League-Melbourne, Mr. Youhanna Bidawid spoke to SBS and told the story of the massacre and how it started. He said members of the Chaldean Union decided to designate the 19 of September of every year to commemorate the massacre. This day has been commemorated for the past twelve years.

Mr. Bidawid said, due to the hard work of the community in Australia and people in northern Iraq, who persisted in pushing the issue of the massacre to be recognised by the Kurdistan government and to open an official investigation because until now, the commanding officer has never been indicted. The Kurdish government finally recognised the massacre, but as a massacre against people living in the Kurdistan region.
Mr. Bidawid says we ask for compensation for the villagers who some of them are still living, but so far, nothing has been done. There was an approval for a project to build a shrine commemorating the martyrs, but it was not completed due to the occupation of ISIS in the region.
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