sentences:  In 2004, the Syrian government banned an Assyrian political organization from commemorating the event and threatened arrests if any were to break the ban.Assyrian music artist Shlimon Bet Shmuel has written a song about the event.A number of poems and stories have been written about the incident, including one by the American-Armenian writer William Saroyan, titled "Seventy Thousand Assyrians", written in 1934;
  
  The Simele massacre was instrumental in Raphael Lemkin's creation of the concept of genocide.