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Even those who were temporarily employed were sacked.</p> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/07/former-intelligence-officers-put-on-pension/#more-13292" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12829"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/24/%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%86-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%b0%d9%83%d8%b1%d9%89-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ba%d8%b2%d9%88-%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d9%8a%d9%83%d8%a7-%d8%ac%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%aa-%d9%84%d9%86%d8%a7-%d8%a7/#comments" title="Comment on عراقيون في ذكرى الغزو: امريكا جلبت لنا الويلات وملايين الارامل والمشردين">1 Comment</a></span> Posted on March 24th, 2011 by Haleema Al-Azzawi</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/24/%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%86-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%b0%d9%83%d8%b1%d9%89-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ba%d8%b2%d9%88-%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b1%d9%8a%d9%83%d8%a7-%d8%ac%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%aa-%d9%84%d9%86%d8%a7-%d8%a7/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to عراقيون في ذكرى الغزو: امريكا جلبت لنا الويلات وملايين الارامل والمشردين">عراقيون في ذكرى الغزو: امريكا جلبت لنا الويلات وملايين الارامل والمشردين</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/american-imperialism/" rel="tag">American Imperialism</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/child-poverty/" rel="tag">Child Poverty</a>, <a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%8a%d8%aa%d8%a7%d9%85/" rel="tag">الايتام</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>تمر هذه الأيام الذكرى الثامنة لاحتلال العراق</p> <p>وبعد مرور هذه السنوات تباينت آراء الشارع العراقي حول ما تحقق على الأرض من منجزات كان العراقيون يتأملون حصولها بعد تغيير النظام السابق، فالبعض ورغم خيبة أمله من الأحداث التي شهدها العراق خلال السنوات الماضية، وعدم حصول أي تطور ملموس على مستوى المواطن، فيما حمل البعض الآخر القوى السياسية التي جاءت بعد التغيير مسؤولية ما يجري الآن في البلاد لفشلها في تقديم الخدمات للمواطنين.</p> <p>من جهته يقر السياسي محمود عثمان بعدم قدرة الحكومات المتعاقبة التي تشكلت بعد الاحتلال  على تحقيق ولو جزء بسيط من متطلبات المواطن العراقي، ويبين:ان الولايات المتحدة فشلت هي الأخرى في تحويل العراق الى نموذج ديمقراطي يحتذى به في الشرق الأوسط كما كانت تتحدث قبيل شنها الحرب في 2003.</p> <p>الى ذلك يرى أستاذ التاريخ السياسي عزام الشوكان ان القوات الامريكية تسببت بـ’خسائر كبيرة’ بعد غزو العراق من خلال سماحها لنهب وسرقة مؤسسات الدولة، معربا عن اعتقاده بأن الولايات المتحدة أرادت بفتحها الحدود امام الجماعات المسلحة ‘محاربة الارهاب’ داخل الحدود العراقية حتى لا يهددوها في عقر دارها.</p> <p>واضاف الى الان لم تتمكن الحكومة من احصاء حجم الخسائر التي حلت بالعراق والمأساة كانت كبيرة جدا.</p> <p>من جانب اخر وصف تجمع منظمات بغداد لحقوق الإنسان ان الغزو كان مغامرة خطرة مكلفة غير محسوبة النتائج، وإن الغزو زاد من معاناة العراقيين دون مبرر، مشيرا في بيان إلى أن الكل كان يتطلع لتغيير النظام ولكن بأيد عراقية، وعندها المهمة كانت ستكون أسهل بكثير.</p> <p>واضاف التجمع في بيانه بعد الاحتلال الغاشم انطلق معه عنان التوترات السياسية والعرقية والطائفية التي تسببت بسنوات من العنف المدمر، يبدو أن العراق يخرج الآن من أسوأ أعمال العنف، وقدر التجمع عدد الأرامل والأيتام في العراق بـ’نحو 7 ملايين شخص. </p> <p>وأكد، في دراسة أن نسبة الايتام بلغت 5 ملايين يتيم من سكان العراق البالغ عددهم 28 مليوناً، منذ احتلال العراق على يد قوات الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية في ربيع 2003 وحتى الآن، ما يمثّل خطراً يهدد المجتمع العراقي في السنوات العشر أو الخمس عشرة المقبلة. وكانت دراسة أجرتها الأمم المتحدة ومراكز أبحاث أخرى أكدت أن عدد الأرامل في العراق قد (بلغ 3 ملايين امرأة). </p> <p>كما حذرت خمس منظمات دولية، في تقارير لها، من ارتفاع نسبة جرائم الطفولة والتشرد والشذوذ وتفشي الأمراض النفسية في المجتمع العراقي في غضون السنوات المقبلة.</p> </div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12826"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/24/%d9%86%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%8a%d9%88%d8%b1%d9%83-%d8%aa%d8%a7%d9%8a%d9%85%d8%b2-%d8%b6%d8%ad%d8%a7%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d8%ba%d8%b2%d9%88-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82-%d8%a7%d8%b7%d9%81%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%a8/#respond" title="Comment on نيويورك تايمز : ضحايا غزو العراق اطفال بلامأوى بين سوء المعيشة وأهمال الحكومة">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 24th, 2011 by Haleema Al-Azzawi</div> <h3><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/invasion-of-iraq/" rel="tag">invasion of iraq</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>يرى معنيون بحقوق الاطفال إن الاطفال هم الارث الاكثر مدعاة للحزن بعد 8 سنوات من غزو العراق واحتلاله ا فبعد سبع سنوات من الاحتلال والعنف والتمرد المسلح، فان هناك نحو 3 الاف طفل انتهى بهم المطاف بعد مقتل ذويهم، الى ملاجئ الايتام البائسة التي تديرها مجموعات اعانة أو الحكومة <br/> فيما انتقل آخرون للعيش مع عوائلهم الاكبر والابعد، لكن هناك الاف الاطفال ممن لم يتم تعدادهم، يجوبون شوارع بغداد والمدن الاخرى، وينامون في البنايات المقصوفة، ويقتاتون على الازبال، ويبيعون حلوى السمسم والمناديل الورقية للسيارات المارة. <br/>وفي الذكرى السنوية لغزو العراق، يرصد جاك هيلي مراسل نيويورك تايمز في بغداد، اوضاع الاطفال الذين تسببت لهم الحرب واعمال العنف باعاقات، من خلال اثنين من الفتية في حي الشعلة، معقل التيار الصدري، الذي يُعد من الاحياء الفقيرة في العاصمة بغداد. <br/>ويروي هيلي قصة الفتيين بالقول: لطالما يتذكر صادق علي ومحمد احمد انهما الاثنان كانا لايفترقان عن بعضهما. ولقد كبرا في المنطقة نفسها غرب بغداد، وسوية ذهبا للدراسة. وحلما معا ان يكونا من مشاهير كرة القدم. وكانا يلعبان العابا فيديوية في رواق مفتوح، عندما نزل عليهما صاروخ من السماء، غمرهما بالنار والشظايا. فقد صادق ساقه اليمنى، وفقد محمد اليسرى وقُتِلَ صديقهما الثالث. وبعد أربع سنوات، مثلت حياة الصديقين مقياسا لضريبة المعاناة التي تحملها اطفال العراق بسبب الحرب الدائمة. <br/>وهناك آلاف لا يمكن حصرهم من الاطفال الذين أصيبوا بانفجارات الصواريخ والسيارات المفخخة، وفي المعارك وفي تبادل اطلاق النار في الشوارع، فضلا عن نحو 800 ألف طفل فقدوا احد والديهم، وفقا لتقديرات الامم المتحدة. <br/>لكن هذين الصبيين بقيا رسائل شاخصة تدلل على استمرار الحياة. ففي الوقت الذي راحت الصداقات تتآكل، واهتمامات العوائل تتوجه تدريجيا صوب المشاغل اليومية، لم يترك الصديقان محمد (14 عاما) وصادق (15 عاما) بعضهما، وهما يسيران معا على عكازيهما، بمساعدة الساقين الصفراوين البديلتين، في طريقهما إلى سن بلوغ غامض. ويقول أحمد سوادي والد محمد "إنهما يتشاركان كل شئ، ومعا هما اقوى". <br/>وكان صادق؛ الصبي ذو الشعر الاشعث والتكشيرة الدائمة المشابهة لمغني بوب، هو من أسرَعَ بالرجوع ثانية إلى الحياة، وكان يحث صديقه محمد ليلبس ساقه الصناعية، على الرغم من التعليقات الساخرة من أقرانهما. اما محمد، ذو الابتسامة الخجولة والذي كان يشبه السلك، فكان الشخص الذي انكمش على نفسه. وكان يتراجع ليصعد على سطح الدار، عندما يلعب بقية الاولاد في الخارج. كان طالبا جيدا يريد ان يكون مهندسا. وحاول ابقاء صديقه صادق، مواظبا على الدراسة بعد ان عادا بعد اشهر التعافي. <br/>وفي لحظات المرح كانا يتشاجران، عندما يلعبان كرة القدم، ويتجادلان حول من سيقوم بدور لاعب كرة القدم البرتغالي كريستيانو رونالدو؛ مهاجم نادي ريال مدريد الأبرز، ويسخران من كونهما يستطيعان الاشتراك في لبس حذاء واحد. وإذا ما قارب غضب أحدهما حد الانفجار، يبادر الثاني لتهدئة صاحبه، أو ان يعود به إلى ذكريات الانفجار. يقول محمد "من الافضل ان ننسى". <br/>وتبرعت منظمة غير ربحية في حي الشعلة ببغداد، وهو حي مترب تزدحم به الشعارات الموالية لمقتدى الصدر، وورشات تصليح السيارات، وترعى به قطعان الماشية، بالأطراف الصناعية البديلة والعكازات للصديقين، على الرغم من أن الصديقين صادق ومحمد يقولان إن الاطراف غير ملائمة لهما، وتفرك اللحم الحي. <br/>أما عائلتهما، فتقول إنهما تعلما بسرعة ثمن ان تكون مصابا. وعلى الرغم من كون العمليات الجراحية للاصابة كانت مجانية، ظلت العائلتان تدفعان ثمنا لكراسي المعوقين والمضادات الحيوية ومسكنات الالم ومراجعة العيادات الخاصة. <br/>وفي حالة أخرى، تقول السيدة نور حامد انه يتوجب عليها شراء اكياس الدم صنف AB موجب، من مصرف الدم المحلي لابنها البالغ من العمر سنتين، بعد تعرض جزء صغير من جمجمته للاقتلاع جراء انفجار سيارة مفخخة. وتتابع أن الاطباء اخبروها ان المستشفى لا تقدم دما مجانيا للتعويض. <br/>انتصار علي الجبوري؛ رئيسة اللجنة البرلمانية المعنية بشؤون الاسرة والطفل في مجلس النواب العراقي، توضح أن "ليس الدم فقط هو ما يجب شراؤه، بل حتى الحقن. وكان من المفروض ان تتولى الحكومة المسؤولية، لكنها ظلت غير جادة في التعامل مع هؤلاء الناس". وتؤكد نور حامد، التي تشتري الدم، أن الفتحة الكائنة في جمجمة ابنها لم "تعالج". <br/>طفل ثان أعيد بناء ركبته بشكل جزئي، بقطعة من أحد أضلاعه، بعد أن اصابته رصاصة، وأخبر الاطباء ذوي الطفل أن ليس لديهم الادوات ولا المال، لبناء مفصل جديد. <br/>وما زالت الذراع اليمنى لموسى كاظم (13 عاما)، مرفوعة بحمالة، وتعاني التنمل والضمور، بعد أن أصيب موسى في تبادل لاطلاق النار بين ميليشيات متحاربة قبل سنتين. ولا تتمكن عائلته من توفير نفقات علاجه في الخارج، حتى أن الصبي بدأ يتعلم الاكل والكتابة بيده اليسرى. <br/>ويقول مدافعون عن حقوق الانسان ونواب في البرلمان العراقي، إن الحكومة شكلت لجان تعويض للاطفال والكبار المصابين، لكن ملء الاستمارات وحضور لجلسات الاستماع، قد يستغرق من 3 الى 4 سنوات، تنتهي باستلام نحو 2000 دولار أميركي لا غير. <br/>وشهدت أعداد الاطفال المعوقين تدنيا ملحوظا، بعد انخفاض نسبة العنف 90 في المئة، قياسا بفترة العنف الاكثر دموية. ووفقا للامم المتحدة، فان 475 طفلا اصيبوا منذ ربيع 2009، اي منذ البدء بالاحتفاظ بتسجيل الاعداد، فيما حجبت وزارة الصحة العراقية ارقامها. <br/>وتكافح عائلتا صادق ومحمد من اجل شراء اطراف صناعية جديدة، بعد ان كبر الولدان، ولم تعد القديمة مناسبة. وفي بلاد تصل نسبة البطالة فيها الى 20 في المئة، وفي حي يكبر الاولاد فيه لينقلوا الطابوق، او يعملوا سائقين لسيارات الاجرة او عمال بناء، فان العائلتين ينتابهما القلق حول مصير ابنيهما. <br/>يقول والد محمد "أعرف ما يحدث للشباب الذين يعانون المشاكل نفسها. انهم فقراء جدا حد العوز، وافكر بابني محمد عندما اراهم. لا يمكنني ان اقدم الكثير له، فليس لدي اي مال. وكل ما يمكنني عمله هو ان اطمأن إلى أنه يذهب للمدرسة". <br/>وفي الوقت الحاضر، يسلك محمد هذا الطريق، لكن صديقه صادق يتخلف عن الذهاب للمدرسة. وبعد عدم دوامه شهورا عدة في المدرسة، فشل صادق في سنتين دراسيتين متتاليتين، وانتقل جراء ذلك الى مدرسة مسائية، حيث اعمار الطلاب تتراوح بين من هم في سن المراهقة وسن الثلاثين. <br/>وفي احد الأماسي الاخيرة، وجد الطلاب باب المدرسة مغلقا، ووقف الطلاب والمعلمون خارجا، ولم يكن هناك تدريس مدة اسبوع. وأراد صادق ان يعرف إن كان قد نجح في الامتحانات الاخيرة، وتساءل "ما هي درجاتي؟"، فأجابه المدير عبد الكناني "لدي الف طالب لأتعامل معهم، ولم أكمل درجاتكم". <br/>ومع الغاء الدراسة مرة اخرى، فان الاولاد عادوا للعب كرة القدم، على مبعدة مئة ياردة من مكان سقوط الصاروخ. وتقافز صادق خلف الكرة، فيما كان محمد يدور على ساقه السليمة، مسجلا نقطة بعد اخرى، في هدف حددته كتل خرسانية. قال صادق "هذا هو افضل اوقات اليوم". </p> </div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12806"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/20/20-%d8%a2%d8%b0%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%a3%d9%85%d8%a7-%d8%a2%d9%86-%d9%84%d8%b4%d9%85%d8%b3-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%a9-%d8%a3%d9%86-%d8%aa%d8%b4/#respond" title="Comment on 20 آذار .. أما آن لشمس الحرية والكرامة أن تشرق في سماء العراق المحتل">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 20th, 2011 by Mohammed Ibn Laith</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/20/20-%d8%a2%d8%b0%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%a3%d9%85%d8%a7-%d8%a2%d9%86-%d9%84%d8%b4%d9%85%d8%b3-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%a9-%d8%a3%d9%86-%d8%aa%d8%b4/" 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شاهدا على واحدة من أبشع الجرائم في العصر الحديث إن لم يكن أبشعها على الاطلاق، حين ذبح العراق و"اغتصبت" عاصمة الرشيد على مرأى ومسمع العالم كله، دون أن يحرّك أحد ساكنا. في مثل هذا اليوم احتلت بغداد، ودمرت بسلاح الابادة الشامل في جريمة لم يشهد التاريخ مثيلا لها. بعد ثمان سنوات عجاف مرت على ذلك المشهد الهوليودي المعد باحتراف في ساحة الفردوس، والذي اعلن فيه عن بداية الاحتلال الأمريكي لبلاد النهرين وازاحة نظام صدام حسين، يحق لنا ان نسال ما النتيجة التي تحققت على ارض الواقع، واين يقف هذا البلد بعد هذه السنوات من الاحتلال؟. الواقع أن هناك نتائج يمكن القطع بها دون ريب وقد تحقق ظهورها ولا يمكن الجدال في درجة مصداقيتها ولا يوجد عاقل حتى في الإدارة الأمريكية يمكنه أن يتبرع للطعن بجملة هذه الحقائق الدامغة، فضلا عن أن تجد لها من يحاول الدوران حولها من أي مكان آخر في هذا العالم المفتوح اليوم تقنياً على مصراعيه. ابرز انجازات الاحتلال الأمريكي لبلاد ما بين النهرين وعاصمة الرشيد اليوم، هي صناعة نهر من الدماء العراقية إلى جانب نهري دجلة والفرات واقامة محرقة عراقية مفتوحة تلتهم مئات العراقيين يوميا، وبات العراقيون يبيتون على جريمة بشعة ويصحون على اخرى، وتختلف الجرائم المستهدفة للمدنيين حسب البرمجة السياسية للاحتلال، وحسب الحاجات الآنية وتوافقها مع رغبات البيت الأبيض الأمريكي. ومنذ ان عين الحاكم الأمريكي السابق في العراق بول بريمر اعضاء مجلس الحكم المنحل وفق المحاصصة الطائفية والعرقية التي رأت فيها الادارة الامريكية التركيبة الأفضل لأحكام سيطرتها على العراق، ومنذ ان اعلن الشعب العراقي رفضه للاحتلال ومحاصصته عن طريق المقاومة، حتي بدأت جرائم القتل الجماعي، بأبشع الصور، وبشكل أذهل العراقيين، على الرغم من كل ما مروا به على مدى العصور من انظمة قمعية وحروب. مضافا الى ذلك المؤشرات التي  تحدثت عن استشهاد اكثر من  655 الف عراقي منذ غزو العراق في آذار 2003 . في حين وصل الامر بالبعض للقول بان الرقم وصل الى المليون شهيد، وايا كان الرقم فان الامر برمته يعطي انطباعا اقرب الى ان نطلق عليه كارثية هولوكوستية بكل ما يحمله هذا المصطلح من مضامين وتداعيات واستخلاصات اجرامية لم يشهدها التاريخ. ومما يعزز هذه الصورة الكارثية ان مفوضية اللاجئين التابعة للأمم المتحدة اكدت على "أن اربعة ملايين عراقي نزحوا داخليا أو الى خارج البلاد جراء الاوضاع الامنية في حين تتحدث المعطيات العراقية عن نحو اربعة ملايين لاجىء عراقي". وما يفاقم الكارثة العراقية ان هذه الاوضاع لن تتوقف وفقا لرؤية الخبراء والمحللين، اذ اكد المحلل الاستراتيجي في مركز الدراسات الاستراتيجية والدولية في واشنطن انتوني كوردسمان ان حظوظ الجيش العراقي الذي تعول واشنطن على بنائه في حفظ الأمن والاستقرار في العراق لا تتجاوز 50 في المائة، مستبعدا ان تستقر الأوضاع في البلد المحتل قبل العام 2012 ان لم يكن 2015. وهو ما ذهب إليه أيضا رئيس أركان الجيش الأمريكي الجنرال بيتر شوميكر الذي أكد ان مستوى القوات الأمريكية في العراق سيبقى كما هو إلى حين حلول العام 2010. وكل هذه المعطيات لا تشكل عمليا سوى غيض من فيض جملة حقائق مرعبة تمس صميم المشهد العراقي وجرائم الاحتلال الامريكي ضد كافة بنى ومقومات وجود الوطن العراقي والحياة العراقية. الذكرى الأليمة تأتي اليوم وفق معطيات جديدة بدا المشهد العراقي يتلمسها، على رأسها تنامي روح الثورة الشعبية في داخل المواطن العراقي الذي لا يزال يخرج يوميا وأسبوعيا إلى الشوارع العراقية من أجل إدانة الإحتلال الأمريكية ورموزه وأتباعه الذين خلفهم في العراق والذين لم يهتموا بالمواطن العراقي الذي يعاني الأمرين في متابعة حياته العادية، وسط فساد كبير للسياسيين العراقيين.  معطى الثورة يكاد يكون بداية التغيير الحقيقي في العراق، حيث ستعمل أفرازات هذه الثورة على بلورة واقع عراقي يرفض تماما الإحتلال ورموزه وأتباعه من العراقيين، وبالتالي فالجميع سيغادر عاجلا أم أجلا بعيدا عن العراق ويترك البلد لأهله وشبابه لبنائه من جديد. ان هذه المناسبة تستدعي اليوم اكثر من اي وقت مضى القوى الوطنية العراقية والنخب العراقية بشكل خاص الى العمل من اجل توحيد صفوفها للنهوض بمشروع ميداني شامل للتصدي للاحتلال ورموزه واستعادة المبادرة في اطار الدفاع عن الكيان العراقي وانقاذه من حالة التدهور والانهيار الراهنة، واسقاط العملية السياسية المستضلة بقوات الاحتلال والقمع الدموي للحكومات العميلة له، ودعم الثورة الجماهيرية الواسعة التي تشهدها مدن العراق، والمطلبة بالحقوق الاساسية للمواطن العراقي وفي المقدمة منها حرية التعبير والحق في العيش والكرامة. أن هذه المناسبة ستبقى علامة سوداء في تأريخ العراق والعراقيين، حتى يرحل اخر جندي محتل وتستقط رموز 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rel="tag">الإسلام‎</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%8a%d9%86/" rel="tag">بالمسيحيين</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="border-right: black 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: black 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: black 1px solid; width: 300px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: black 1px solid"> <p><font size="3"><strong>The Monday Interview:</strong> With his 30 armed guards, Andrew White, ‘Vicar of Baghdad’, lives on Christianity’s front line. Jerome Taylor meets him:</font></p> <p> <a title="20100307_canon_andrew_white_in_baghdad by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.flickr.com/photos/gorillasguides/5506077910/" class="external" target="_blank"><font size="3"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin: 0px auto 5px" height="381" alt="20100307_canon_andrew_white_in_baghdad" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126im_/http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5252/5506077910_55e027241d_o.jpg" width="280"/></font> </a> </div> <p>Canon Andrew White leans over his desk and – with a mischievous glint in his eye – prepares to deliver what I now suspect is a signature move when greeting new guests. Handing over a copy of one of his books, his face breaks into a wide grin as he asks: "Would you like me to sign that for you? I tell you what, I’ll use this pen. It was the same one used to sign Saddam Hussein’s death sentence." </p> <p>Such a macabre piece of historical memorabilia might appear an unusual keepsake for an Anglican priest but then Canon White – the so-called Vicar of Baghdad – is no ordinary clergyman. As pastor to St George’s, the only Anglican church in Iraq, Canon White has been on the front line of the most violent and barbaric persecution of a Christian minority in living memory. </p> <p>Cut off from the streets of Baghdad by blast-proof barriers, razor wire and round-the-clock security, St George’s is one of the few churches still able to operate weekly services for the Iraqi capital’s rapidly diminishing Christian congregation. Scores of his worshippers have been kidnapped or murdered, and militants have routinely tried to storm the complex which lies outside the comparative safety of the Green Zone. </p> <p>Canon White, 47, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, has been shot at and kidnapped but still he returns, making sure to spend at least three weeks of every month with an embattled congregation that refer to him as their abouna (father). </p> <p>The 6ft 2in, bowtie-loving priest spoke on a brief visit back to his picturesque home in a quiet Hampshire village which he shares with his wife and two boys (for security reasons he asks us not to give their names or location). The stopover was part publicity tour for his new book Faith Under Fire, part a chance to catch up with the family. </p> <p>The Hampshire house is a pretty, single-storey family home in a quiet curving cul-de-sac, containing a theologian’s study filled with books and crucifixes from across the world. Work is a war zone 3,000 miles away, where Canon White is protected by 30 security guards. A place of sandbags and terror, particularly for Iraqi Christians, whose population has plummeted in the past 20 years from 1.4 million to just 300,000. </p> <p>The fountain pen, which Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki borrowed for a couple of days and used to sign Saddam’s death warrant, is a way of breaking the ice before talking about a subject that will inevitably be gruesome. We meet just days after Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s only Christian cabinet member, was gunned down in Islamabad and it is inevitable that the conversation quickly turns to violent persecution of Christians. "All over the world there are increasing threats against Christians," Canon White says. "Bhatti’s death is deeply disturbing. But when you’re living in the midst of the fire like in Baghdad, it’s really what happens there that concerns you. We have had 123 people killed in Baghdad since November." </p> <p>Last year in fact was a particularly brutal year for Iraq’s Christians and 2011 looked like it was going to be no different. But in the past few weeks the killings have stopped. </p> <p>As head of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East, Canon White has built unparalleled relationships with Iraq’s senior Sunni and Shia clerics. In late January he gathered them in Copenhagen to issue a joint fatwa (religious edict) condemning any attacks on minority communities. "Until then Christians were being killed every day," he says. "After the fatwa the killings stopped. It’s crucial to remember that the vast majority of Muslims we work with, they are our friends. We can only do what we do with their help." </p> <p>When he is not administering to his flock, it is these kinds of delicate negotiations between Iraq’s religious power players that occupy much of Canon White’s time in Baghdad. He has been a key negotiator in kidnappings including that of the IT worker Peter Moore, who was released, and Ken Bigley, who was killed. He has himself been taken hostage, held in a room where freshly severed fingers and toes littered the floor, and has negotiated for the release of countless Iraqis. The violence he has seen is harrowing. Does he ever lose his faith? "Never," he says. "If anything, my faith has got stronger." It’s a reply you often hear from religious people in conflict zones – but how can religion be a force for good when it does so much harm in these situations? </p> <p>"I remind myself that if religion is a force for bad it is also a force for good," he says. "If religion is the cause of this horrific violence then it is also the cure. The only way you will be able to stop this violence is engage with Iraq’s religions in a religious way. The best thing we can do is work with the Islamic leaders as most of them are not terrorists." </p> <p>Canon White places the blame for the violence against his congregants squarely at the feet of al-Qa’ida in Iraq, the primarily foreign militant network inspired by Osama bin Laden. "Those who instigate violence are mainly from outside," he says. "There are certain people you simply can’t work with and the al-Qa’ida people fall into that category." </p> <p>But he is equally infuriated by Christian bigots and publicity seekers – such as the American pastor Terry Jones, who threatened to burn the Koran. "Pastor Terry Jones is directly responsible for the murder of some of our people," Canon White says. "They have no idea how terrible it was. Throughout the time he threatened to burn the holy Koran, they were warning us that our people would be attacked. Four of my guards were killed throughout that time. He can try and say from the safety of Florida he was trying to make an important point. But it was an important point that killed our people." </p> <p>Canon White was himself a supporter of the American-led invasion of Iraq, but after all the killing, the mutilations, the kidnappings and the mass exodus of Iraq’s Christians – does he still think it was worth it? </p> <p>It’s the first time he seems unsure of himself. "I had one day in the whole of my life when I thought to myself, why did we do this," he says. "But I remember what it was like in Iraq before the war, the fear people lived under." Yet he adds: "But at least you could walk down the street." </p> <p>I press again, was it really worth it, so much violence, so many deaths? </p> <p>"I had seen the terror of the Saddam regime and I knew there was absolutely nothing the Iraqis could do to remove that terror," he replies. "It’s been hell. So many people killed. I still say the regime had to be removed but we should have done things differently afterwards." </p> <p>Regrets are a luxury Canon White cannot afford. He has a flock in Iraq to attend to. While a semblance of peace has returned for Baghdad’s Christians thanks to the joint fatwa, Canon White knows it is temporary. "From my years and years in Palestine, Israel and Baghdad I know that the majority of people can live together," he says. "But you only need a few fanatics and it all falls to pieces." </p> <p><b>Christianity under fire</b></p> <p>IRAQ In the past 20 years, the flight of Christians has reduced the community’s population from 1.4 million to 300,000. </p> <p>EGYPT On New Year’s Day, 21 Copts were killed in a bomb in Alexandria. </p> <p>PAKISTAN Shahbaz Bhatti, the country’s only Christian cabinet member, was assassinated last week. </p> <p>NORTH KOREA Christianity is vehemently prosecuted in North Korea, where any expression of religion in the totalitarian state is viewed as open insurrection against the Communist regime. </p> <p>NIGERIA Sectarian conflict between Muslims and Christians in central Nigeria has broken out with horrendous violence over the past two years in and around the city of Jos. </p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/andrew-white-the-vast-majority-of-muslims-are-our-friends-2234252.html" class="external" target="_blank">Andrew White: ‘The vast majority of muslims are our friends’ – Profiles, People – The Independent</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12137"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/01/06/who-assassinated-iraqi-academics/#respond" title="Comment on Who Assassinated Iraqi Academics?">No Comments</a></span> Posted on January 6th, 2011 by Nabil</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/01/06/who-assassinated-iraqi-academics/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Who Assassinated Iraqi Academics?">Who Assassinated Iraqi Academics?</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/category/human-rights/" title="View all posts in Human Rights" rel="category tag">Human Rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/category/war-crimes/" title="View all posts in War Crimes" rel="category tag">War Crimes</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/academics/" rel="tag">academics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/adil-e-shamoo/" rel="tag">Adil E. 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/university-teachers/" rel="tag">university teachers</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/us/" rel="tag">US</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/violence/" rel="tag">violence</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/washington-post/" rel="tag">washington post</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/wikileaks/" rel="tag">Wikileaks</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/women-and-children/" rel="tag">Women and Children</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>By April 2004, just a little over a year after the U.S. invasion of Iraq and before the sectarian violence began, the Iraqi Association of University Teachers (AUT) reported that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=191084&sectioncode=26" class="external" target="_blank">250 academics had been killed</a>. Award-winning British journalist Robert Fisk <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2042" class="external" target="_blank">had warned</a> early that year of the assassinations of Iraqi academics, but few U.S. newspapers picked up on the story.  By the end of 2006, according to<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/iraqs-universities-are-in-meltdown-427316.html" class="external" target="_blank"> <em>The Independent</em></a>, over 470 academics had been killed. Another British paper, <em>The Guardian</em>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2006/dec/12/internationaleducationnews.highereducation" class="external" target="_blank">reported</a> that about 500 academics were killed just from the Universities of Baghdad and Basra alone.</p> <p>Based on multiple sources, the B<em>Russell</em>s Tribunal sifted through such reports and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Academics.htm" class="external" target="_blank">published on its website</a> the names of over 400 murdered academics and when they were killed. Although the exact total number of assassinated academics is not really known, the indefatigable advocate for human rights Dirk Adriaensens gives a detailed analysis of the data available so far in his contribution to the book <em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://us.macmillan.com/culturalcleansinginiraq" class="external" target="_blank">Cultural Cleansing in Iraq</a></em>. According to Adriaensens, most of those killed were from the Universities of Bagdad (57 percent) and Basra (14 percent). In addition, 35 percent died in detention after being arrested/kidnapped by some security forces. The modus operandi for the killings was a professional, well-organized assassination. Fifty-four percent of the deaths occurred as a targeted killing, at point-blank range with hand guns or automatic weapons. The killing of academics did not follow any sectarian agenda since the murdered were Sunni and Shia. No one has taken responsibility for the killings, and no one has been arrested.</p> <p>The reports of these murdered Iraqi academics have been around for a few years, mostly in the foreign press and on websites. I admit to an initial skepticism about their veracity. I was even more concerned about who was responsible for these heinous crimes and why. Iraqis living in Iraq knew of these murders first-hand, but did not know the culprits. Their suspicions fell naturally on the occupying power.</p> <p>Along with these tragic deaths was the concomitant wave of death threats and intimidation against other Iraqi academics, which resulted in tens of thousands of Iraqi academics literally running abroad for their life. <em>The Washington Post </em>recently described the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/23/AR2010112306747.html" class="external" target="_blank">plight of one Iraqi family</a> living in the United States after the husband, a professor, was assassinated and the wife, a physician, survived but gravely wounded. For some, the escape abroad was only temporary. A<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://iraqiacademicsunderattack.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/two-iraqi-academics-killed-after-their-returning-to-iraq-english-arabic-castellano/" class="external" target="_blank"> professor and a dean</a> who left and returned in the past six months to Iraq were professionally assassinated.  Iraq has suffered the decapitation of its intellectual class on a staggering scale, which has thrown the country back to the dark ages.</p> <p>According to the new revelations of Wikileaks, in some cases the United States, through the military, contractors, and others, killed innocent Iraqi civilians including women and children. As a matter of policy we handed over Iraqi detainees to Iraqi security forces with full knowledge that they would be subjected to torture, rape, and murder. Moreover, when our military received the reports of torture, rape, and murder it chose to ignore them. Such a policy is contrary to international law, U.S. laws, and American values.</p> <p>It’s not clear whether the U.S. government or the U.S. military knows who assassinated the Iraqi academics. We don’t know if U.S. officials or military commanders looked the other way when local security forces committed those crimes. But the Wikileaks documents raise many disturbing questions about a possible U.S. role in these assassinations. Even the Gulf Cooperation Council, and its half-dozen U.S.-friendly Arab members, has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hiUt15hxCn1JG0tU8iLw_Oj6yb8A?docId=CNG.1c29e0b64ef02ac621d8a8911f61ba89.191" class="external" target="_blank">called on</a> the Obama administration to "open a serious and transparent investigation" into possible "crimes against humanity."</p> <p>The evidence so far is sufficient to warrant a thorough investigation by an independent body. Iraqis, Americans, and the world need to know the truth.</p> <div style="border-right: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 15px; margin: 15px auto 5px; border-left: lightgrey 1px solid; width: 95%; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid"> <p><em>Adil E. Shamoo, is a senior analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus, and writes on ethics and public policy. He is a Professor at </em><em>University</em><em> of </em><em>Maryland School</em><em> of Medicine. He can be reached at </em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/mailto:ashamoo@umaryland.edu"><em>ashamoo@umaryland.edu</em></a><em>.</em></p> </p></div> <div></div> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.fpif.org/articles/who_assassinated_iraqi_academics?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FPIF+%28Foreign+Policy+In+Focus+%28All+News%29%29" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Source: </strong>Foreign Policy In Focus | Who Assassinated Iraqi Academics?</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12057"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/12/31/research-links-rise-in-falluja-birth-defects-and-cancers-to-us-assault/#respond" title="Comment on Research links rise in Falluja birth defects and cancers to US assault">No Comments</a></span> Posted on December 31st, 2010 by Haleema Al-Azzawi</div> <h3><a 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higher than normal </li> <li>‘War contaminants’ from 2004 attack could be cause </li> </ul> <p><a title="male_child_scaly_skin_syndrome by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.flickr.com/photos/gorillasguides/2995563269/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px" height="240" alt="male_child_scaly_skin_syndrome" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3147/2995563269_fd8fec4a7b_o.jpg" width="300" align="right"/></a>A study examining the causes of a dramatic spike in birth defects in the Iraqi city of Falluja has for the first time concluded that genetic damage could have been caused by weaponry used in US assaults that took place six years ago.</p> <p>The research, which will be published next week, confirms earlier <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/13/falluja-cancer-children-birth-defects" class="external" target="_blank">estimates revealed by the Guardian of a major, unexplained rise in cancers and chronic neural-tube, cardiac and skeletal defects in newborns</a>. The authors found that malformations are close to 11 times higher than normal rates, and rose to unprecedented levels in the first half of this year – a period that had not been surveyed in earlier reports.</p> <p>The findings, which will be published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, come prior to a much-anticipated World Health Organisation study of Falluja’s genetic health. They follow two alarming earlier studies, one of which found a distortion in the sex ratio of newborns since the invasion of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iraq" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq</a> in 2003 – a 15% drop in births of boys.</p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/12/31/research-links-rise-in-falluja-birth-defects-and-cancers-to-us-assault/#more-12057" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11822"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/11/28/iraq-no-country-for-women/#respond" title="Comment on IRAQ: No country for women">No Comments</a></span> Posted on November 28th, 2010 by Khaled</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/11/28/iraq-no-country-for-women/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to IRAQ: No country for women">IRAQ: No country for women</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/category/features/" title="View all posts in Features" rel="category tag">Features</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/category/women/" title="View all posts in Women and Children" rel="category tag">Women and Children</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/2003-invasion-of-iraq/" rel="tag">2003 invasion of iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/analysis/" rel="tag">Analysis</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/children/" rel="tag">Children</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/death-threats/" rel="tag">Death Threats</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/disempowerment/" rel="tag">disempowerment</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/domestic-violence/" rel="tag">domestic violence</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/female-genital-mutilation/" rel="tag">Female genital mutilation</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/gender-issues/" rel="tag">Gender Issues</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/genital-mutilation/" rel="tag">genital mutilation</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/governance/" rel="tag">Governance</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/human-rights/" rel="tag">Human Rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/interior-ministry/" rel="tag">Interior Ministry</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/invasion-of-iraq/" rel="tag">invasion of iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqi-women/" rel="tag">iraqi women</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/middle-east/" rel="tag">Middle East</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/militias/" rel="tag">Militias</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/poverty/" rel="tag">Poverty</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/prostitution/" rel="tag">Prostitution</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/refugees/" rel="tag">Refugees</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/security/" rel="tag">Security</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/syria/" rel="tag">Syria</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/unhcr/" rel="tag">UNHCR</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/vice/" rel="tag">Vice</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/women-trafficking-in/" rel="tag">Women - trafficking in</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/womens-rights/" rel="tag">Women's Rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/womens-rights-violations-of/" rel="tag">Women's Rights - violations of</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>MADRID, 28 November 2010 (IRIN) – The improved political representation of women in Iraq is in sharp contrast to their broader <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportID=91216%20" class="external" target="_blank">disempowerment</a>, as highlighted by the persistence of domestic violence and early marriage, according to a new report by the UN Inter-Agency Information and Analysis Unit. </p> <p>Women may hold 25 percent of seats in the Iraqi parliament, but one in five in the 15-49 age group has suffered physical violence at the hands of her husband. Anecdotal evidence alleges that “many women are being kidnapped and sold into prostitution”, and female genital mutilation is still common in the north, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.iauiraq.org/end-violence-against-women-campain.asp" class="external" target="_blank">report</a> notes. </p> <p>“The situation many Iraqi women and girls face is beyond words,” journalist Eman Khammas told IRIN in a telephone interview. “Before, I was a journalist, a professional; now, I am nothing.” </p> <p>Khammas noted an underlying social climate of intolerance that has become increasingly poisonous for women. She was forced to flee Iraq after receiving death threats that effectively stopped her – like thousands of other Iraqi women – from working. She now lives in Spain. </p> <h3>Stay home</h3> <p>Women’s participation in the labour force has fallen sharply since 2003. Before the invasion, 40 percent of public sector workers were women, according to a report by the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.brussellstribunal.org/cooperate.htm" class="external" target="_blank">BRussels Tribunal</a>, an anti-war movement. Some sectors, such as the teaching profession, were almost entirely staffed by women, Khammas said. </p> <p>She cited the “new, fundamentalist thinking”, which emerged after the 2003 invasion of Iraq that has been aggressively imposed by the militias, armed private groups purporting to uphold religious law. </p> <p>The collapse of public social services has also limited access to education, health and jobs, while a high level of insecurity has pushed women out of public life and into the seclusion of their homes, and an ineffective judicial system has created an atmosphere of impunity, Khammas said. </p> <p>The conservative attitudes of public sector officials has been reinforced by a government that supports keeping women at home, according to a 2007 report by the international women’s resource network, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.madre.org/" class="external" target="_blank">MADRE</a>. </p> <p>“In 2006, the Iraqi Interior Ministry issued a series of notices warning women not to leave their homes alone and echoing the directives of religious leaders who urge men to prevent women family members from holding jobs,” the report noted. </p> <p>“Thus, the violence carried out by militias in the streets is backed up by more respectable political leaders, who support the call for a women-free public sphere.” </p> <p>Escalating poverty has pushed Iraqi families into prioritizing schooling for boys, stifling future opportunities for women. </p> <p>“For every 100 boys enrolled in primary schools in Iraq, there are just under 89 girls,” the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said in a report released in September 2010. School enrollment figures for girls have been progressively declining, while drop-out rates have gone up in every academic year. </p> <h3>Getting out</h3> <p>Factors pushing girls out of schooling included “security risks, attitudes to girls and education, the state of the nation’s schools, what is taught and how it is taught, the skills and attitudes of teachers, family poverty,” UNICEF said. </p> <p>Like Khammas, many other women have chosen to leave Iraq, but asylum does not necessarily end their difficulties. Neighbouring Syria is home to the majority of what the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) considers as Iraqi “persons of concern” – people who have left their home country out of fear for their safety but do not conform to the legal definition of “refugee”. </p> <p>Of the 139,000 registered Iraqi persons of concern in Syria, 28 percent fall under female-headed households, the UNHCR Protection Officer in Syria, Aseer Al-Madaien, told IRIN in an email interview. </p> <p>Many do not have work permits, which compounds the difficulties female-headed households face in neighbouring countries, where they struggle to make a living, “especially paying the rent”, while still “coping with family, social and community pressure”, Al-Madaien commented. </p> <p>Their vulnerability can lead to exploitation. “There is trafficking happening among the Iraqi refugees, [but] the scope and modality is not known to us,” said Al-Madaien. </p> <p>According to the UN Inter-Agency Information and Analysis Unit report, “Victims are trafficked internally and to neighbouring countries, including Syria and the Gulf states”.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=91218" class="external" target="_blank">IRIN Middle East | IRAQ: No country for women | Iraq | Gender Issues | Governance | Human Rights | Security</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11781"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/11/06/christians-on-verge-of-extinction-in-iraq-muslim-leader-warns/#respond" title="Comment on Christians ‘on verge of extinction’ in Iraq, Muslim leader warns">No Comments</a></span> Posted on November 6th, 2010 by Umm Fatima</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/11/06/christians-on-verge-of-extinction-in-iraq-muslim-leader-warns/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Christians ‘on verge of extinction’ in Iraq, Muslim leader warns">Christians ‘on verge of extinction’ in Iraq, Muslim leader warns</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/category/human-rights/" title="View all posts in Human Rights" rel="category tag">Human Rights</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christian-churches-and-monasteries-attacks-on/" rel="tag">Christian churches and monasteries - 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Signatories of the letter included Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan and representatives of the World Council of Churches.</p> <p>They said the attack was an “inhumane” act that “contradicts all religious teachings and Middle Eastern culture that enabled people to coexist for many centuries”.</p> <p>They called on the UN Security Council and Iraqi officials to put an end to terrorist attacks “aimed at degrading Iraqi people … and defiling Christian and Islamic sacred places”.</p> <p>The Islamic State of Iraq, the group which claimed responsibility for the attack, has threatened to continue targeting Christians. It says it attacked the church in retaliation for the supposed detention of two women converts to Islam by the Coptic Church in Egypt.</p> <p>According to the Associated Press, the Church’s head, Pope Shenouda III, said God had turned the attack to good by creating sympathy for his church.</p> <p>Christians who turned up to St Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo for Wednesday’s service were made to pass through metal detectors before being allowed in.</p> <p>Addressing the congregation, Shenouda said: “God either prevents evil or turns it to good. Affirming that everything turns to good, the message that reached us brought sympathy for us from the Noble Al-Azhar [a revered institution of higher learning in Egypt] and from many writers and journalists and the interior ministry and police.”</p> <p>In Iraq, armed security guards have been placed outside some churches after last Sunday’s attack.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.christiantoday.com/article/christians.on.verge.of.extinction.in.iraq.muslim.leader.warns/27025.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Christians ‘on verge of extinction’ in Iraq, Muslim leader warns | Christian News on Christian Today</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11577"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/09/association-with-occupying-powers-makes-christians-targets/#respond" title="Comment on Association with occupying powers makes Christians targets">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 9th, 2010 by Mohammed Al-Hamadani</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/09/association-with-occupying-powers-makes-christians-targets/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Association with occupying powers makes Christians targets">Association with occupying powers makes Christians targets</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/category/human-rights/" title="View all posts in Human Rights" rel="category tag">Human Rights</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/arabs/" rel="tag">Arabs</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/armenians/" rel="tag">Armenians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/assassination/" rel="tag">assassination</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/assassination-attempts/" rel="tag">Assassination attempts</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/assyria/" rel="tag">Assyria</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/assyrian/" rel="tag">Assyrian</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/assyrians/" rel="tag">Assyrians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/basra/" rel="tag">Basra</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bombings/" rel="tag">Bombings</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/catholic-church/" rel="tag">Catholic Church</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/catholics/" rel="tag">Catholics</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/chaldean-catholic/" rel="tag">chaldean catholic</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/chaldean-church/" rel="tag">chaldean church</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/chaldeans/" rel="tag">Chaldeans</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christian-minority/" rel="tag">christian minority</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christian-population/" rel="tag">christian population</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christians/" rel="tag">Christians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christians-killing-of/" rel="tag">Christians - 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Their businesses are targeted by extremists. Their leaders are kidnapped and assassinated. The Christian minority in Iraq, once a community left in peace to prosper, continues to be under threat from a campaign of persecution which has forced as many as 500,000 Christians to flee the country.</p> <p>During the reign of Saddam Hussein, the estimated 1.4 million Christians – many of them Chaldean-Assyrians and Armenians, with small numbers of Roman Catholics – were generally left alone if they didn’t oppose the government and they lived in relative peace with the country’s Sunnis and Shiites. </p> <p>Some, such as Tariq Aziz, Saddam’s foreign minister and deputy prime minister, rose to the highest levels of power.</p> <p>Things changed after the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq toppled Saddam’s regime. Christians became a target of violence when Islamist groups and ordinary Muslims angered by the military action began seeing them as the enemy, associating with them with the "crusaders" – the invading armies of the United States and Britain.</p> <p>Tensions over their religious ties with the West and their differing beliefs to the strict Islamic majority, which had been simmering for years, spilled over as the occupying forces dug in.</p> <p>"Iraqi Christians became caught up in the overlapping violence and multiple conflicts unleashed after 2003," Dr. Kristian Ulrichsen, an Iraq expert at the London School of Economics and Political Science, told Deutsche Welle. "They became exposed to the similar patterns of kidnappings, extortion, beheadings, rape and forced taxation that affected all other communities as the erosion of central government control left a security vacuum that was exploited by organised and opportunistic criminality and anti-occupation resistance groups." </p> <p>"In addition to this, Christians specifically were targeted by Church bombings and assassination attempts owing to a perceived association with the aims and intentions of the occupying forces."</p> <h3>Association with occupying powers makes Christians targets</h3> <p>In 2004, insurgents launched a coordinated bombing campaign targeted churches in Baghdad. In 2007, after Pope Benedict XVI made comments perceived to be anti-Islam, nationwide attacks on churches hit an all-time high and a priest in the northern city of Mosul was kidnapped and later found beheaded. In January 2009, 40 Iraqi Christians were killed and approximately 12,000 fled their homes.</p> <p>In February this year, at least 10 Iraqi Christians were killed by unknown gunmen in Mosul as the country was preparing for the March 7 elections. The escalating violence ahead of the ballot led to hundreds of Iraqi Christians taking to the streets in a number of protests, chanting slogans such as "Stop the killing of Christians."</p> <p>During the years since the invasion, life for the Christian minority has become beset by danger. The waves of violent attacks against churches, businesses and homes have forced more than half of the Christian population to flee for their lives, according to statistcs from the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). Those churches which remain standing are mostly empty, their congregations long gone or too afraid to attend.</p> <p>"The Christian minority in Iraq has been reduced to a shadow of its former self," said Ulrichsen. "Up to two-thirds of the pre-war community has been displaced or forced to flee the country. Although conditions in Iraq have improved somewhat since 2007, the security situation remains intensely fragile and prone to reversal, and the return of refugees and displaced persons to their homes has been very slow and halting."</p> <p>"There’s a real possibility that 2,000 years of settlement by Christian communities in Iraq is in danger of near-total extinction." </p> <h3>US withdrawal leave Christians’ fate in Iraqi hands</h3> <p>As the United States steps up its military withdrawal from Iraq, the Christian minority is forced to look at the Iraqi security structure for protection. However, the prospect of being protecetd by the Iraqi police and armed forces fails to instill any confidence in the Christian minority.</p> <p>"The greatest concern about a US pullout is that extremists will exploit any lapses in security and attack vulnerable groups, including Christians," Samer Muscati, an Iraq expert from the Middle East division at Human Rights Watch, told Deutsche Welle. </p> <p>"Although the Iraqi government publicly condemns violence against Christians and other minority groups, it has not taken measures to bolster security in areas where minorities are particularly vulnerable to attacks, and it has not thoroughly investigated attacks," he added. "Iraqi security forces rarely apprehend, prosecute and punish perpetrators of such attacks, which has created a climate of impunity."</p> <h3>Christians search for ways to protect themselves </h3> <p>One muted proposal to protect the Christian minority involves the creation of an autonomous province on a neglected area of land located to the north and west of Mosul, called Ninawah Plain, which would act as a sanctuary.</p> <p>While advocates of the idea say it wouldn’t stop the violence against Christians in the large, high-risk cities of Mosul, Baghdad, and Al-Basrah, it would give the Christians a place where their needs could be met, their beliefs supported and their security guaranteed.</p> <p>The proposals suggest that Ninaweh Plain would an autonomous administrative region in which the Christian minority could govern themselves and would be free to participate in the federalist system which is developing in Iraq.</p> <h3>Creation of autonomous region plagued by problems </h3> <p>However, the idea of an autonomous region for the Christian minority in reality looks unviable. </p> <p>"The image of a real autonomy is unrealistic," Nizar Hanna, director of the Assyrian Democratic Movement’s Baghdad office, told Deutsche Welle. "Up to now, there are no concrete plans which show how this would work. Even in the Kurdish constitution, they have the right to autonomy in the areas where they are the majority but nowhere is this the case. Besides, there are no areas in which only Christians live. Shabak, Yazidis, Kurds and Arabs also live there." </p> <p>"To an extent a safe haven for Christians exists in Iraqi Kurdistan," Kristian Ulrichsen said. "Thousands of internally displaced Iraqi Christians have moved there. Although viable on humanitarian grounds, the creation of a specific region for Christians would be a short-term measure that does not offer a longer-term solution to the reconstruction of Iraqi society and the reintegration of its communities."</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6052335,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-world-4025-rdf" class="external" target="_blank">Iraqi Christians fear escalating persecution as US forces withdraw | World | Deutsche Welle | 09.10.2010</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130126120126/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/invasion-of-iraq/page/2/">« Previous Entries</a></div> <div class="alignright"></div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar" class="span-10 last"> <div class="span-10" id="tabs"> <ul> <li class="ui-tabs-nav-item"><a href="#featured-articles">Featured Articles</a></li> <li class="ui-tabs-nav-item"><a 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