BAGHDAD — After decades of national struggle to secure the rights of the Suraye (Chaldean–Syriac–Assyrian) people in Beth Nahrin, Iraq and the Nineveh Plain, and to ensure their presence in their ancestral homeland with dignity, security and peace, the veteran patriotic leader and former head of the Beth Nahrin Patriotic Union (Huyodo d’Beth Nahrin Athroyo, HBA) Gorgis Khushaba Mikhail (known as Shoraya), has passed away.