sentences:  Even though all military activities ceased by 6 August 1933, exaggerated stories of atrocities committed by the Assyrians at Dirabun and the persistent anti-Christian propaganda and rumours insisted that the Christians were planning to blow bridges up and to poison drinking water in major Iraqi cities.According to some historians, the agitation against the Assyrians was also encouraged by Rashid Ali al-Gaylani's Arab nationalist government, which saw it as a distraction to the continuous Shiite revolt in the southern part of the country.The Iraqi Army, led by Bakr Sidqi, an experienced brigadier general, an Iraqi nationalist and general of Kurdish origin, although not a Kurdish nationalist, moved north in order to crush the Assyrian revolt.