The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5
=> Re: NYTimes.com - More Christians Flee Iraq After New Violence
| Re: NYTimes.com - More Christians Flee Iraq After New Violence |
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pancho
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- Wednesday, December 15 2010, 5:29:35 (UTC) from *** - ***  Network -  Windows XP -  MozillaWebsite: Website title: |
"Christians, of course, are not the only victims of the bloodshed that has swept Iraq for more than seven and a half years; Sunni and Shiite Arabs have died on a far greater scale. Only two days after the attack on the church, a dozen bombs tore through Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad, killing at least 68 people and wounding hundreds. The Christians and other smaller minority groups here, however, have been explicitly made targets and have emigrated in disproportionate numbers. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, these groups account for 20 percent of the Iraqis who have gone abroad, while they were only 3 percent of the country’s prewar population. More than half of Iraq’s Christian community, estimated to number 800,000 to 1.4 million before the American-led invasion in 2003, have already left the country." ..Exactly! This is what sensible people warned about: that while ALL Iraqis would be killed in this illegal war, Christian Iraqis would suffer aditionally because of the self-identification of many with those Christian nations attacking the country. No way in hell would this be a "golden opportunity" as Aprim, Jassim, Malek-Yonan and the other assholes claimed...what they meant was that it would be a great chance to get someone ELSE to kill Muslims. --------------------- |
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