sentences:  Husry blamed the Assyrians for starting the crisis and absolved Sidqi from ordering the mass killing in Simele.He hinted that Faysal was the authority who might have issued orders to exterminate Assyrian males.Kanan Makiya, a leftist Iraqi historian, presents the actions taken by the military as a manifestation of the nationalist anti-imperialist paranoia which was to culminate with the Ba'athists ascending to power in the 1960s.