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It was announced on Friday evening that the Iraqiya bloc won the most seats in Iraq’s March 7 parliamentary elections. </p> <p>Q) How would you describe your relationship with the Kurds? </p> <p>A) We have deep and historical ties with our Kurdish brothers, as we have been allies, partners and companions on a long path of struggle spanning decades. Of course we might disagree in some areas but we agree on a lot more. Honestly, we consider Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen, Muslims, Sunni or Shia, Christians, Sabians and Yazidis and all other segments and elements of Iraqi society partners in this country. None of these partners or citizens is above the other. </p> <p>Q) Will you ally with the Kurdistan Alliance to form a parliamentary bloc? </p> <p>A) We are serious about the alliance with our brothers in the Kurdistan Alliance and we will not forget the important national position of the Kurds as they nurtured the Iraqi opposition from the beginning of the 1990s and opened headquarters for opposition parties and made large sacrifices in this regard as the future of the opposition in Kurdistan was subjected to many problems with the former government. </p> <p>Q) Will you support President Jalal Talabani’s nomination for a second presidential term? </p> <p>A) Of course. It seems that President Talabani is the Kurdistan Alliance’s candidate for the presidency and we respect this nomination and waiting for this nomination to be made official. In the Iraqiya List we strongly contributed to the election of our brother Jalal Talabani as he is a national Iraqi figure. In general, authoritative positions will not be subjected to political quotas whether presidencies or [other] important posts. I repeat that we are waiting for the official nomination from the Kurdistan Alliance for President Jalal Talabani’s second term and this will be part of the dialogue and discussions that will take place after the final election results and there will be a political alliance that will include all centers. </p> <p>Q) There is talk about the possibility of the National Iraqi Alliance merging with the State of Law coalition, what is your comment in this regard? </p> <p>A) Each electoral bloc is free to make its decisions and they (the National Iraqi Alliance and the Daawa Party which is headed by Nouri al Maliki, head of the State of Law coalition) were allies. In fact they formed a large parliamentary bloc and this ended for reasons relating to management. I believe that restoring this coalition today will be unsuccessful, this is my personal opinion, [but] they are free to decide themselves. </p> <p>Q) Don’t you think that such a merger or alliance between the National Iraqi Alliance and the State of Law would be based on sectarianism? </p> <p>A) If that is the case then, God forbid, the situation will go back to square one with the formation of sectarian axes. In my discussions with the brothers in the Supreme Islamic Council and the Sadrist current I didn’t feel that they were willing to ally themselves based on sectarianism. Rather, we felt they were keen to ally themselves based on nationalism because they realized that coalitions (founded on sectarianism) did not succeed and they discovered that the Shia have a large and influential national, historical role. </p> <p>Q) Has there been any talk or discussions with the State of Law coalition headed by Nouri al Maliki? </p> <p>A) We do not have any ties to the State of Law coalition and we do not know their approaches. Our conversations are limited to the Kurdistan Alliance, the Sadrists and the Supreme Islamic Council and other Iraqi national political bodies and individuals. We want to form an Iraqi national government away from any kind of sectarian and political quotas in order to implement a program to build an institutional state, a state that respects the judiciary and the law and achieves services for the Iraqis and provides [good] economic conditions, a state that relies on Iraqi capabilities and works on returning migrants to their homes and their nation. We hope that the Iraqi electorate voted for this program and God willing the Iraqi citizen will raise his head [with pride].</p> <p><strong>Source</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=20383" class="external" target="_blank">Asharq Al-Awsat Talks to Iyad Allawi</a> By Maad Fayad Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English)</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9290"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/23/%d9%85%d8%a4%d8%aa%d9%85%d8%b1-%d8%ad%d9%88%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%82%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%b1%d9%88%d8%aa-%d9%8a%d8%b3/#respond" title="Comment on مؤتمر حول الأقليات الدينية في بيروت يسلط الضوء على أوضاع الإيزيديين في العراق">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 23rd, 2010 by Nur Hussein Ghazali</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/23/%d9%85%d8%a4%d8%aa%d9%85%d8%b1-%d8%ad%d9%88%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%82%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%b1%d9%88%d8%aa-%d9%8a%d8%b3/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to مؤتمر حول الأقليات الدينية في بيروت يسلط الضوء على أوضاع الإيزيديين في العراق">مؤتمر حول الأقليات الدينية في بيروت يسلط الضوء على أوضاع الإيزيديين في العراق</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/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/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/institute-of-strategic-studies-of-iraq/" rel="tag">Institute of Strategic Studies of Iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/yazhidi/" rel="tag">Yazhidi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/yezhidi/" rel="tag">Yezhidi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/yezidis/" rel="tag">Yezidis</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <blockquote> <p>اعلنت وزارة الاوقاف والشؤون الدينية في حكومة اقليم كردستان العراق، الثلاثاء، انها ستشارك في مؤتمر حول الحوار والتسامح بين الاديان يعقده معهد الدراسات الاستراتيجية العراقية في العاصمة بيروت السبت المقبل، ويستمر لثلاثة ايام. <br/>وقال مدير الاعلام في الوزراة مريوان نقشبندي في حديث لـ"<a title="السومرية نيوز" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.alsumarianews.com/ar/1/4533/news-details-مؤتمر%20حول%20الاقليات%20الدينية%20في%20بيروت%20يسلط%20الضؤ%20على%20أوضاع%20الإيزيديين%20في%20العراق.html">السومرية نيوز</a>"، إن "وزارة الاوقاف تسلمت دعوة رسمية من معهد الدراسات الاستراتيجية العراقية للمشاركة في مؤتمر حول  الحوار والتسامح بين الاديان وحقوق الاقليات الدينية في العراق"، مبينا أن "الموتمر سيعقد في العاصمة اللبنانية بيروت السبت المقبل". <br/>وأضاف نقشبندي أن "الموتمر الذي سيستمر لثلاثة ايام بدءاً من يوم السبت 27 حتى 29 من اذار الحالي، سيشارك فيه عدد من الباحثين والناشطين في مجال حقوق الاقليات الدينية، إضافة الى ممثلين من جميع الديانات وعدد من الوزراء والشخصيات السياسية والاكاديمية والمراجع الدينية في العراق والشرق الاوسط"، بحسب قوله. <br/>وأشار النقشبندي الى أن "مدير عام شؤون الديانة الايزيدية في وزارة الاوقاف سيلقي كلمة في المؤتمر لتسليط الضوء على الاوضاع التي يعيشها ابناء الطائفة الايزيدية في اقليم كردستان العراق ومناطق محافظة الموصل".  <br/>وتتعايش في العراق الديانات والطوائف الدينية المختلفة منها الاسلام، والصابئة المندائية، والإيزيدية، واليهودية، والمسيحية، والكاكائية، والشبك. <br/>يذكر أن معهد الدراسات الاستراتيجية العراقية الذي يترأسه الاكاديمي العراقي فالح عبد الجبار هو مؤسسة غير ربحية تهتم بإعداد البحوث والدراسات الأكاديمية عن العراق ودول الجوار الإقليمي، ويتخذ من العاصمة اللبنانية بيروت مقرا له، ويقيم المعهد ندوات فكرية ودورات أكاديمية لخريجي الجامعات وقادة المجتمع المدني والإعلام.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.alsumarianews.com/ar/1/4533/news-details-مؤتمر%20حول%20الاقليات%20الدينية%20في%20بيروت%20يسلط%20الضؤ%20على%20أوضاع%20الإيزيديين%20في%20العراق.html">السومرية نيوز | سياسة العراق | مؤتمر حول الأقليات الدينية في بيروت يسلط الضوء على أوضاع الإيزيديين في العراق</a></p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9231"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/18/nineveh-governor-wants-international-probe-into-attacks-against-mosul-christians-and-minorities/#respond" title="Comment on Nineveh governor wants international probe into attacks against Mosul Christians and minorities">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 18th, 2010 by markfromireland</div> <h3><a 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like to call the "disputed areas" is indescribable. </p> <p>They are being subjected to a campaign of intimidation and a campaign of targeted murders by death squads. Both are part of a cynical ploy to drive them out of the city and force them to seek refuge in villages in the "Plains of Ninewa". <br/>The object is to claim as Kurdish territory Sinjar, Tel Afar, Tal Kayf, Hamdaniya, Sheikhan and their outlying districts and thus to make them eligible for integration in to Kurdistan. <br/>The plains are rich agriculturally, and have a worthwhile amount of easily extracted oil underneath them. But neither of those two facts are why the Kurdish "General Security Directorate" the Asayish, are trying to drive Mosul’s minorities from the city and into the villages of the plains. The Asayish, are trying to drive Mosul’s minorities from the city and into the villages of the plains because if the plains are ceded to the KRG they will provide a useful buffer between the Kurdish governorates and the rest of Irak.</p> <p>In other words the Kurdish "General Security Directorate" the Asayish,see the Plains of Ninewa in as a <em>strategic space</em> and will stop at nothing to Kurdicise that space using whatever method or methods that works — no matter how repugnant. To this end their death squads are driving the Christians, the Yazhidi, the Buyruki, the Shabak, and the Turkmen from the city and onto the plains. </p> <p>markfromireland</p> </p></div> <p><em>The governor blames Kurdish militias and parties, calls for UN-EU investigation. Kurdish sources tell AsiaNews that al-Qaeda and inefficient law enforcement are to blame.</em></p> <p>The Governor of the Province of Nineveh has asked the United Nations and the European Union to undertake an international investigation into attacks against Iraqi minorities in his province. Atheel al-Nujaifi said violence against minorities in Nineveh, especially in the provincial capital of Mosul, had surged recently. He said Christians were being forced to flee and some of them have been killed. Other minorities like the Shebek and Yazidis are under immense pressure and targets of mounting violence, he explained.</p> <p>In a letter, which he also addressed to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and to the commander of US troops in Iraq, Nujaifi said, “I would like to present before you the suffering of my people in the Province of Nineveh and particularly members of Iraqi minorities which started in the past few years and in the aftermath of 2003.”</p> <p>Nujaifi points the finger at Kurdish militias and the political factions to which they belong. He said the armed Kurdish militias were in control of large areas of the province, including Mosul’s left bank.</p> <p>Christians and Yazidis are being targeted as part of a plan to force them out so that their areas can be annexed to the Kurdish autonomous region, which borders Nineveh province.</p> <p>“Those opposing the Kurdish agenda are persecuted, threatened, arrested and even liquidated," Nujaifi said.</p> <p>Kurdish leaders have declined to comment Nujaifi’s charges, but last year a report by Human Rights Watch accused the Kurds of targeting Christians, Yazidis, Shebek and Turkmen as part of their fight with Arabs over Nineveh’s territory and resources.</p> <p>Some Kurdish leaders told <i>AsiaNews</i> that insecurity in the Mosul area is mostly due to the presence and action of al-Qaeda militiamen, who are responsible for the targeted killing of Christians, and to the inaction and efficiency of law enforcement agencies.</p> <p>In the meantime, vote counting from the 7 March election continues. After 83 per cent of the ballots were counted, al-Maliki’s coalition has retaken the lead against the nationalist alliance led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, which had surged ahead yesterday.</p> <p>The State of Law Alliance leads the Iraqiya List (Iraqi National Movement), Allawi’s party, by 40,000 votes. The Iraqi National Alliance, which includes most Shia-based parties including the Sadrists, is third.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Nineveh-governor-wants-international-probe-into-attacks-against-Mosul-Christians-and-minorities-17919.html" class="external" target="_blank">IRAQ Nineveh governor wants international probe into attacks against Mosul Christians and minorities – Asia News</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9128"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/14/%d8%a3%d9%85%d9%8a%d9%86-%d8%b9%d8%a7%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%83%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d9%8a%d8%b2%d9%8a%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%8a%d8%aa%d9%87%d9%85-%d8%a8%d8%ba%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%af-%d8%a8/#respond" title="Comment on أمين عام الحركة الإيزيدية يتهم بغداد بأنها أعطت نصف محافظة نينوى لقوات البيشمركة">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 14th, 2010 by Hussein Kareem</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/14/%d8%a3%d9%85%d9%8a%d9%86-%d8%b9%d8%a7%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%83%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d9%8a%d8%b2%d9%8a%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%8a%d8%aa%d9%87%d9%85-%d8%a8%d8%ba%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%af-%d8%a8/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to أمين عام الحركة الإيزيدية يتهم بغداد بأنها أعطت نصف محافظة نينوى لقوات البيشمركة">أمين عام الحركة الإيزيدية يتهم بغداد بأنها أعطت نصف محافظة نينوى لقوات البيشمركة</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/amin-farhan/" rel="tag">Amin Farhan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/peshmerga/" rel="tag">Peshmerga</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/peshmerga-seizure-of-non-kurdish-lands/" rel="tag">Peshmerga seizure of non-Kurdish lands</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/yazhidi/" rel="tag">Yazhidi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/yazhidi-movement-for-reform-and-progress/" rel="tag">Yazhidi Movement for Reform and Progress</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/yezidis/" rel="tag">Yezidis</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right">قال الامين العام للحركة الايزيدية أمين فرحان جيجو ان الحكومة الاتحادية أعطت نصف محافظة نينوى لقوات البيشمركة، مطالباً إياها بأن لاتعطي مكاسب للأكراد على حساب المحافظة. <br/>واتهم جيجو في تصريح لوكالة الصحافة المستقلة، الأحد، الحكومة الاتحادية بأنها غضت النظر عن الكثير من الانتهاكات الكردية في نينوى ما أدى إلى جعلها محافظة منكوبة وضحية للانتهاكات. <br/>واكد جيجو على ضرورة تواجد القوات الحكومية من جيش وشرطة في المناطق المتنازع عليها وتوحيد اراضي المحافظة تحت سلطة واحدة وان يكون المحافظ هو المسؤول الاول فيها.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8967"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/05/well-did-they-or-didnt-they/#respond" title="Comment on Well Did They Or Didn’t They?">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 5th, 2010 by markfromireland</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/05/well-did-they-or-didnt-they/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Well Did They Or Didn’t They?">Well Did They Or Didn’t They?</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English 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force from the army and Asayesh personnel raided on Friday the headquarters of the Yazidi movement in western Mosul, vice president of the Ninewa council said. <br/>“A force from the Asayesh (Kurdish for security) and 11th brigade of the 3rd division of the Iraqi army raided the headquarters of the Yazidi movement in al-Qahtaniya district, western Mosul, where a number of members were arrested,” Dildar Zebari told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. <br/>“The forces set them free on the highway,” he noted, asserting that the behavior indicates that the operation was not official. <br/>Mosul, the capital of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.</p> </blockquote> </td> <td valign="top" width="268"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=128055" class="external" target="_blank">Army forces did not raid Yazidi political office in Ninewa – source : Aswat Al Iraq</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi army forces did not raid the office of the Yazidi Movement at the al-Qahtaniya district, west of Mosul city, a source from the Ninewa Operations Command said on Friday. <br/>“Our forces did not raid any office of any political party,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. <br/>He said that our records show that no such operation was conducted by our troops. <br/>Earlier, Dildar Zebari, a Kurd and the deputy head of the Ninewa provincial council, said that a combined Iraqi army – Kurdish security force raided the office of the Yazidi Movement at the al-Qahtaniya district. <br/>He said that the force arrested a number of the movement’s members then released them.</p> </blockquote> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="552" colspan="2"> <hr/>Yes they did the Asayesh are the Peshmerga’s political police. They’re the ones waging the Peshmerga’s ethnic cleansing campaigns in Kirkuk and Mosul. The 11th brigade of the 3rd division are a Kurdish unit. <p>This was yet another operation in the continuing Peshmerga series of campaigns of ethnic cleansing and intimidation of minorities. The only difference between this operation and the other operations similar to it that the Peshmerga carry out under Asayesh supervision on an almost daily basis is that this one got reported. </p> <hr/>markfromireland </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8850"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/25/%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b1%d8%b9-%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%a9-%d8%a3%d8%b4%d8%ae%d8%a7%d8%b5-%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%8a%d9%86-%d9%88%d8%b4%d8%a8%d9%83-%d8%a8%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%85%d8%ac%d9%87/#respond" title="Comment on مصرع ستة أشخاص مسيحيين وشبك بنيران مجهولين في الموصل">No Comments</a></span> Posted on February 25th, 2010 by Mohammed Al-Hamadani</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/25/%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b1%d8%b9-%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%a9-%d8%a3%d8%b4%d8%ae%d8%a7%d8%b5-%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%8a%d9%86-%d9%88%d8%b4%d8%a8%d9%83-%d8%a8%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%85%d8%ac%d9%87/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to مصرع ستة أشخاص مسيحيين وشبك بنيران مجهولين في الموصل">مصرع ستة أشخاص مسيحيين وشبك بنيران مجهولين في الموصل</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/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/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/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/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/corpse-findings/" rel="tag">Corpse Findings</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/death-squads/" rel="tag">Death Squads</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/drive-by-shootings/" rel="tag">drive-by shootings</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ethnic-cleansing-of-christians/" rel="tag">Ethnic cleansing of Christians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/mosul/" rel="tag">Mosul</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ninawa-plain/" rel="tag">Ninawa Plain</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/shabaki/" rel="tag">Shabaki</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/shabaki-attacks-on/" rel="tag">Shabaki - 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"More than thirty" —  you could be forgiven for having the the impression that only a few more than thirty families have fled, thirty one, thirty two, thirty three perhaps … … …  "more than thirty".</p> <div style="border-right: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: lightgrey 1px solid; width: 300px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid"> <p><strong>Updates:</strong></p> <p>While I was writing this during the day my colleagues were working on the postings and summaries for tonight. Here is some of what is in their preliminary drafts (I have translated from Arabic):</p> <h3>Several attacks on minority members in Mosul:</h3> <ul> <li>Two shabaki were murdered by gunmen who forced their way into their workshop in East Mosul and shot them dead. </li> <li>The body of a woman who had had been killed by having her head cut off was found in al-Mashierfa (west Mosul). </li> <li>An old lady was stabbed to death in her home in al-Zuhoor (east Mosul) by men who forced their way into her house. </li> <li>Three Christians were captured and shot dead by a gang of gunmen on the plains of Ninewa. </li> <li>A man was shot dead in South Mosul in a drive by shooting. </li> <li>Also on the plains of Ninewa the body a man who is believed to be a Yazhidi was found he had been very recently shot. </li> </ul></div> <p>The reality is catastrophically worse. <em>Hundreds</em> of Christian families have fled their homes in the last two days in Mosul and it’s suburbs in terror for their lives.</p> <p>If you are a Christian in Mosul today the overwhelming factor in your life is that to fear being hunted down and slaughtered without mercy is an entirely reasonable fear to have. The source of the "more than thirty" quote is Bashar Kiki who is the head of the village council for <a title="postings about Tal Kayf/Tal Keef" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/tal-keef/" target="_blank">Tal Keef</a>. However, if you read the report that my colleague Mohammed Al-Hamadani <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/25/%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%AD-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B5%D9%84-%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84/" target="_blank">posted earlier today</a> (<em>Arabic language</em>) it becomes very clear that Bashar Kiki<sup><strong>1</strong></sup> was speaking only of families whom he <em>personally</em> had met and to whom he <em>personally</em> offered help.</p> <p>However when you count <em>all</em> the Christian families who have fled their homes in Mosul in the last few days and not just those who fled to Tal Keef as we have done and as Bishop Emil Shimoun Nona, Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, has done then the scale of the catastrophe engulfing Mosul’s Christians becomes clear.</p> <p>Speaking from Mosul the Bishop spoke of a "humanitarian emergency" and revealed that in just one day, yesterday, "hundreds of Christian families" had fled the city taking what they could carry leaving their homes and livelihoods behind them. Those families are now destitute.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Bishop-of-Mosul:-humanitarian-emergency.-Hundreds-of-Christian-families-fleeing-violence-17726.html" class="external" target="_blank">IRAQ Bishop of Mosul: humanitarian emergency. Hundreds of Christian families fleeing violence – Asia News</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>The archbishop of Mosul is concerned about the many families, "hundreds" in one day yesterday, leaving the city. Bishop Nona speaks of an " unending via Crucis” and denounces the "change in methods" operated by the armed gangs. "In the past we said to the Christians to remain closed in the house – he remembers – but now they are even attacked in their own homes”. The reference is to the murder took place last February 23: commandos entered the house of Aishwa Marosi, a Christian of 59, killing the man and two boys. His wife and daughter witnessed the murder but were spared by the criminals.</p> <p>Bishop Nona confirms the risk that "Mosul will be emptied completely of Christians”, who are fleeing towards the plain of Nineveh and other places considered safer. "Yesterday I visited some families – he continues – I have tried to bring comfort, but the situation is dramatic. The people fled without taking anything with them”. This is why the local archdiocese has launched an initial emergency response, trying to provide "essential supplies and relief", but the danger of "a humanitarian crisis is real."</p> <p>The archbishop of Mosul plans to travel to Baghdad to meet with politicians and the central government, to demand their intervention. It is difficult to maintain the Christian presence, he continues, and it is likely that the general elections – scheduled for March 7 – no one will vote. The confining of Iraq’s Christians in the Nineveh Plain, victims of a power struggle between Arabs and Kurds, seems an increasingly concrete likelihood, although the Church leaders have always been opposed to this "ghettoisation". So far, the warring factions have used the excuse of religion and armed gangs to drag the Christians into the conflict. "For this – concluded Mgr. Nona – we now need to find a ‘political response’ to the conflicts, the struggle for power.”</p> </blockquote> <p>Among those hundreds of Christian families who fled their homes yesterday were the families of two Gorilla’s Guides team members. More Christians have fled Mosul this morning. Among those who fled this morning were a further two families of Gorilla’s Guides Christian team members in Mosul. </p> <p>When I wrote "<em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/2008/03/23/nearly-one-million-christians-most-of-them-now-on-the-run/" target="_blank">Nearly One Million Christians – Most Of Them Now On The Run</a></em>" nearly two years ago, we had <strong>twenty five</strong> Christian team members and associates together with their families living in Mosul and it’s suburbs. Today February 25th 2010 we have <strong>one</strong> Christian team member left living in the city. He lives alone having sent his family to stay in the home of another team member far from Mosul for their safety.</p> <p>The savage murder of the 59 year old Assyrian Christian Aishwa Maroki by a gang of gunmen who smashed down his front door to get at him and then <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/23/gunmen-kill-3-christians-in-mosul-aswat-al-iraq/">slaughtered him and and his two sons Bassim and Mokhlas in front of his terrified wife and daughter</a> has terrorised many of Mosul’s Christians beyond endurance. As my colleague has reported in the immediately preceding posting (see <span dir="rtl" align="right"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/25/%d9%86%d8%b2%d9%88%d8%ad-%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%b1-%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%85%d9%86-%d9%85%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%88%d8%b5%d9%84-%d8%ac%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%a7%d9%84/">نزوح اسر مسيحية من مدينة الموصل جراء العنف | Gorilla’s Guides</a></span> ) The leader of Tal Keef district council, Bashar Kiki, has said that he personally has offered assistance to thirty Christian refugee families and that he expects more Christian refugees to arrive in the next few days.</p> <p>Mosul’s Christians are the victims of the complete breakdowns in law and order that have taken place repeatedly in Mosul since the American invasion of Irak. They are the victims of several concentrated campaigns of terror against them. There is the campaign by Takfiri extremists and there are the competing campaigns of Arab and Kurdish nationalists. Wherever my Christian brothers and sisters in humanity look in the city that is their home Mosul’s Christians see only threats and predators. The security forces, the Peshmerga now flooding the city, and the American forces who patrol with the Peshmerga do nothing to protect the Christians. Nor do they do anything to protect the other minorities such as the Shabaki and the Yazhidi.</p> <p>We have many eyewitness reports from witnesses whom we know to be credible of Peshmerga and their American allies standing by and doing nothing while Christians are attacked in front of their eyes. We have reports from people whose testimony we know to be credible of Christians being "fingered" by the new "security" forces flooding Mosul and then being attacked. We are not the only people with thick dossiers of such reports. Every human rights organisation with a presence in the governorate has such a dossier.</p> <p>The parallels with the death squad murder campaigns of recent years in which the death squads consisting of  "men dressed in police uniform" and "men dressed in army uniform" turned out to <em>be</em> police and soldiers are too clear and too appalling to be missed. As with those campaigns the aim is explicitly political — to remove a political obstacle by forcing an entire community to flee in terror from their homes</p> <p>When Mosul’s Christians say that they are surrounded by threats and predators in the city that is their home and that among worst predators are those whose duty it is to protect them they are telling the truth.</p> <p>Like Bashar Kikim, and Bishops Sako and Nona  we in Gorilla’s Guides know that we can expect more Christians to flee in terror as the terror campaigns against them escalate. We expect increased violence against them and the other minority groups, such as Turkmen, Fayli, Shabaki, and Yazhidi in the run up to the election. We expect the violence levels to escalate against them still further as the issues of Kirkuk and the so-called "disputed areas" come once more to forefront of the political arena. This is the second time in recent years that I have <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/2008/02/03/25-muharram-1429-03-february-2008-mike-and-mohammed/comment-page-1/#comment-8683" target="_blank">burnt with rage and shame that we cannot do more to protect our Christian brothers and sisters</a>. I believe that it is now very doubtful that there will be any surviving Christians in Irak in a few years time.</p> <p>Mohammed Ibn Laith</p> <p><strong>Notes and references:</strong>  </p> <ol> <li>I have met and dealt with Bashar Kiki on occasion as have many other team members and we know him to be a truthful, honourable, upright, and compassionate man. </li> <li>For a background briefing on Iraki Christians see: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/2008/03/23/nearly-one-million-christians-most-of-them-now-on-the-run/">Nearly One Million Christians – Most Of Them Now On The Run | Gorilla’s Guides</a> I wrote it on March 23, 2008 in it I deal with Iraki Christian history and discuss the legal (Shariah) situation as regards their rights to live and worship in peace and freedom. </li> <li>However the Takfiri campaign against Iraki Christians in general and Mosuli Christians in particular is only one of several campaigns against them. Most of the attacks on them are ethnic cleansing from one group or another. <strong>Some of the best coverage is from the Vatican run Asia News who are unafraid of using their excellent local contacts and contacts with local organisations to get at the truth. <br/></strong> <ul> <li>The homepage for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.asianews.it/en.html" target="_blank" class="external">Asia News’ English language service is at this link</a>. </li> </ul> <p>This report explains clearly the basic problem  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Mosul:-targeted-execution-of-Christians-continues-in-media-and-government-silence-17384.html" class="external" target="_blank">IRAQ Mosul: targeted execution of Christians continues in media and government silence – Asia News</a> the last part of which I extract immediately below:</p> <blockquote><p>Local witnesses reported that "the murder took place in front of the security forces, who saw all the phases of the attack, but did not intervene." A Catholic in Mosul says that "the tactic is to murder Christians, because the media does not talk about it." A strategy that aims to push Christians towards the plain of Nineveh, "in the silence and indifference of the government and the international community." </p> <p>A source for AsiaNews in Mosul, adds that "Christians are living in panic and have begun fleeing from the city". He explains that "these are not normal criminals," but behind them are "specific political plans" that the government is not countering. There is no information from Baghdad "about who is behind attacks on churches and Christians," but the source is confident that the central executive, the governorship of Mosul and the Kurdish leadership "are aware" of the plan against the Christian community. </p> <p>"It is easier to attribute responsibility to Al Qaeda – concludes the source – and the fundamentalist fringe. In reality, Christians are victims of a power struggle between Arabs and Kurds".</p> </blockquote> </li> <li>My colleague <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/author/ali/" target="_blank">Ali</a> who has excellent contacts in Mosul and trained our coordinator there made a simlar point om May 13, 2009: <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/2009/05/13/suffer-the-little-children-2/">Suffer The Little Children | Gorilla’s Guides</a>:<br/> <blockquote> <p>There’s a reason why our Christian fellow citizens are fleeing Irak and not coming back. The tragedy of Tony Edward Shiol’s murder illustrates it perfectly — Christians are targets. Sometimes they are targeted as a matter of ethnic cleansing, sometimes because of warped and fanatical religiosity, and sometimes because they are often seen as being a relatively wealthy and relatively powerless minority. </p> <p>Irak’s Christians have been through hell, Irak’s Christians continue to endure hell – the figures speak for themselves. As best I can determine the Christian population stood at 1.2 million in 1991, 800,000 in 2003 and is less than 400,000 today. When I talk to the few of my Christian friends who remain in Irak, they are divided. Some dream of a return to old days of an Irak that treats its Christian minority well and cherishes their presence. An Irak in other words that behaves like Syria and Jordan. There are many who have given up and are fleeing to Europe, to America, or to wherever will take them, finally there are some who want their own semi-autonomous region in the Plain of Ninawa. </p> <p>This last option the “Ninawa plains project” is fatally flawed. Its flaw is that the Kurds are determined to incorporate the Ninawa plains into what is rapidly evolving from an autonomous region to a de facto state while the governorate authorities and the government in Baghdad are equally determined to prevent the Kurdish land grab. The result is that Christians, especially Christian families with children, are vulnerable to intimidation and coercion from all sides. No wonder they flee.</p> </blockquote> </li> <li>Further coverage can be found here: <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/en1/Articolo.asp?c=359720" class="external" target="_blank">Pope’s Pain at Christian Killings in Iraq (Vatican Radio)</a> </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.asianews.it/news-en/During-Lenten-retreat,-Pope-prays-for-Iraqi-Christians-and-peace-in-the-country-17728.html" class="external" target="_blank">During Lenten retreat, Pope prays for Iraqi Christians and peace in the country (AsiaNews)</a> </li> </ul> </li> </ol> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8801"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/religion/" rel="tag">Religion</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/shabak/" rel="tag">Shabak</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/shabaki/" rel="tag">Shabaki</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/yazhidi/" rel="tag">Yazhidi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/yezidis/" rel="tag">Yezidis</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/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 dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>خمسة قتلى في الموصل في أسبوع واحد</p> <p>(واشنطن، 23 فبراير/شباط 2010) – قالت هيومن رايتس ووتش اليوم إن على الحكومة العراقية أن تعزز من التدابير الأمنية من أجل حماية أرواح المسيحيين في الموصل. فمنذ 14 فبراير/شباط 2010 قُتل خمسة مسيحيين في الموصل في هجمات منفصلة يبدو أنها سياسية الدوافع، مع اقتراب عقد الانتخابات الوطنية العراقية.</p> <div style="border-right: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: left; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; border-left: lightgrey 1px solid; width: 305px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid"> <p> <a title="logo_human_rights_watch" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4385112768/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" alt="logo_human_rights_watch" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632im_/http://static.flickr.com/2720/4385112768_7823aee4f6.jpg" border="0"/></a></p> <p>ذات صلة : </p> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.hrw.org/ar/news/2009/11/09-3" class="external" target="_blank">العراق: يجب حماية الأقليات الخاضعة للحصار</a> </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.hrw.org/ar/news/2009/10/28" class="external" target="_blank">العراق: يجب تقديم المسؤولين عن التفجيرات للعدالة</a> </li> </ul> <p>Other Material: </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.hrw.org/ar/reports/2009/11/10-0" class="external" target="_blank">على أرضية ھشّة </a></p> <p>"يجب على السلطات العراقية أن تتحرك فوراً من أجل وقف حملة العنف ضد المسيحيين هذه من التفشي من جديد.  ويجب على الحكومة بشكل خاص أن تعمل على القبض على المسؤولين عن أعمال القتل على وجه السرعة وأن تقاضيهم من أجل حماية المسيحيين في الموصل من أية موجات عنف جديدة".</p> </p></div> <p>كما دعت هيومن رايتس ووتش الحكومة العراقية إلى اتخاذ إجراءات فورية، مثل زيادة التواجد الأمني في أحياء الكلدان الآشوريين قبل وأثناء الانتخابات، لمنع تكرر حملة العنف التي استهدفتهم في الموصل أواخر عام 2008.</p> <p>وقال جو ستورك، نائب المدير التنفيذي لقسم الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا في هيومن رايتس ووتش: "يجب على السلطات العراقية أن تتحرك فوراً من أجل وقف حملة العنف ضد المسيحيين هذه من التفشي من جديد". وتابع: "ويجب على الحكومة بشكل خاص أن تعمل على القبض على المسؤولين عن أعمال القتل على وجه السرعة وأن تقاضيهم من أجل حماية المسيحيين في الموصل من أية موجات عنف جديدة".</p> <p>وطبقاً لمعلومات توصلت إليها هيومن رايتس ووتش، فإنه في 16 فبراير/شباط تنكر معتدون في زي الشرطة السرية واقتربوا من زايا توما وابن عمه رامسين شمايل فيما كانا يقفان في انتظار الحافلة بمنطقة التحرير بالموصل، في طريقهما إلى الجامعة التي يرتادانها. وطلب المعتدون توما – طالب الهندسة البالغ من العمر 22 عاماً – وشمايل – طالب الصيدلة البالغ من العمر 21 عاماً – باللغة العربية أن يُبرزا هوياتهما. ورغم أن بطاقات الهوية في العراق لا تشير إلى الديانة أو الانتماء العرقي، فإن المسلحين كثيراً ما يتعرفون من خلال اسم الضحية على ديانته أو انتماءه العرقي.</p> <p>وبعد أن أخرج توما بطاقة هويته، أطلق المعتدون النار على رأسه، فسقط قتيلاً على الفور. وحاول رامسين الفرار لكنهم أطلقوا عليه رصاصتين، وكسّرت إحدى الرصاصتين أسنانه. وفر المعتدون، على افتراض أنهما قتلا الطالبين، لكن شمايل نجا من الموت. ووصل أقارب الضحيتين إلى المكان قبل وصول الشرطة، ليجدوا توما راقداً في بركة من الدم، وكتبه إلى جانبه، وبطاقة هويته إلى الجانب الآخر.</p> <p>دمر الحادث عائلة توما وشمايل، وكانت الأسرة قد فرت إلى شمال العراق من بغداد صيف عام 2007 بعد أن وصلتهم تهديدات بقتلهم ما لم يتحولوا إلى الإسلام. ويقول الأقارب إنهم يريدون الانتقال مرة أخرى – هذه المرة إلى خارج العراق – للانضمام لمئات الآلاف من الكلدان الآشوريين الذين فروا منذ عام 2003.</p> <p>وقال أحد الأقارب لـ هيومن رايتس ووتش: "بقتل زايا، أخذوا منّا كل شيء. جريمتنا الوحيدة هي أننا مسيحيون".</p> <p>كان هذا الهجوم أحد عدة هجمات أسفرت عن مقتل مسيحيين في الموصل في الأسبوع نفسه:</p> <ul> <li>في 20 فبراير/شباط تم العثور على جثمان عدنان حنا الدهان شمالي الموصل. البقّال السوري الأرثوذكسي البالغ من العمر 57 عاماً, والذي تم اختطافه على يد معتدين مجهولين من داخل متجره قبل أيام من قتله. </li> <li>في 17 فبراير/شباط تم العثور على جثمان وسام جورج – الآشوري البالغ من العمر 20 عاماً ويدرس كي يصبح مُعلماً مدرسياً – وفيه رصاصة، بعد أن اختفى ذلك الصباح وهو في طريقه إلى المدرسة. </li> <li>في 15 فبراير/شباط، داهم مسلحون دكان بقالة وقتلوا فتوخي منير صاحب الدكان. </li> <li>في 14 فبراير/شباط قُتل ريان سالم إلياس، وهو رجل كلداني، رمياً بالرصاص أمام بيته. </li> </ul> <p>وفيما ما زالت هويات الجناة مجهولة، فإن تزايد الهجمات ضد المسيحيين تأتي قبل أيام من الاقتراع في الانتخابات العراقية المقررة يوم 7 مارس/آذار. ويعتقد أهالي الضحايا وقادة العشائر أن العنف سياسي الدوافع، مطالبين الحكومة بتوفير الحماية.</p> <p>وقال رئيس أساقفة الكلدان في الموصل إميل شيمون نونا إن حوادث القتل الأخيرة يمكن أن تؤدي لتدفق موجة جديدة من اللاجئين الفارين في شمال العراق، حيث يعيش المسيحيون في حالة ترقب دائمة. ومنذ عام 2003 غادر العراق ما بين 250 ألف إلى 500 ألف مسيحي – أي حوالي نصف السكان المسيحيين في العراق – طبقاً لتقديرات المفوضية السامية للأمم المتحدة لشؤون اللاجئين. وفي يناير/كانون الثاني حل رئيس الأساقفة نونا محل رئيس الأساقفة باولوس فرج راحو الذي تم العثور على جثمانه في مارس/آذار 2008 بعد عشرة أيام من اختطافه خارج كنيسة الروح القدس في الموصل.</p> <p>وقالت هيومن رايتس ووتش إن الهجمات الأخيرة تستدعي إلى الأذهان حملة القتل بحق الكلدان الآشوريين في الموصل أواخر عام 2008 التي وثقتها المنظمة في تقرير "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.hrw.org/ar/reports/2009/11/10-0" class="external" target="_blank">على أرضية هشة: العنف ضد الأقليات في المناطق المتنازع عليها في محافظة نينوي</a>" الذي جاء في 51 صفحة وصدر في نوفمبر/تشرين الثاني 2009. حملة العنف تلك خلّفت 40 كلدانياً آشورياً قتلى وأدت إلى حالة فرار جماعي ترك خلالها أكثر من 12000 شخص منازلهم في الموصل. واستهدف المعتدون المسيحيين في منازلهم وفي أماكن العمل وفي دور العبادة.</p> <p>أعمال القتل هذه بدأت بعد ضغط المجتمع المسيحي بقليل على البرلمان العراقي من أجل إصدار قانون يمنح عدداً أكبر من المقاعد للأقليات، في انتخابات يناير/كانون الثاني 2009 البلدية. وتصاعدت الهجمات بعد تظاهرات للمسيحيين في نينوي وبغداد رداً على قرار البرلمان (الذي تم تعُديلّه لاحقاً) بإلغاء مادة من قانون الانتخابات تضمن التمثيل السياسي للأقليات.</p> <p>كما وثق التقرير أعمال الترهيب والتضييق على حرية التنقل التي فرضتها السلطات الكردية في شمال العراق بحق جماعات الأقليات الأخرى في نينوي، من هذه الجماعات اليزيديين والشبك، أثناء انتخابات 2009 البلدية.</p> <p><strong>المصدر : </strong>  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.hrw.org/ar/news/2010/02/23" class="external" target="_blank">العراق: يجب حماية المسيحيين من العنف | Human Rights Watch</a></p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8759"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/23/iraq-protect-christians-from-violence-human-rights-watch/#respond" title="Comment on "Our only crime is that we are Christian"">No Comments</a></span> Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by Mohammed Ibn Laith</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/02/23/iraq-protect-christians-from-violence-human-rights-watch/" 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Since February 14, 2010, five Christians have been killed in Mosul in separate attacks that appear to be politically motivated, given the country’s looming national election.</p> <div style="border-right: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: lightgrey 1px solid; width: 360px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid"> <h3>Related Materials: </h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/11/10/iraq-protect-besieged-minorities" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq: Protect Besieged Minorities </a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/10/28/iraq-bring-bombers-justice" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq: Bring Bombers to Justice</a> </li> </ul> <h3>Other Material: </h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/11/10/vulnerable-ground-0" class="external" target="_blank">On Vulnerable Ground </a></li> </ul> <blockquote><p>"Iraq’s authorities need to act now to stop this campaign of violence against Christians from spreading again.  In particular, the government needs to see that those responsible for these murders are swiftly arrested and prosecuted to protect Mosul’s Christians from further violence."</p> </blockquote> <p>Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director </p> </p></div> <p>Human Rights Watch called on the government to take immediate measures, such as an increased security presence in Chaldo-Assyrian neighborhoods before and during the elections, to help prevent a repeat of a campaign of violence that devastated the community in Mosul in late 2008. </p> <p>"Iraq’s authorities need to act now to stop this campaign of violence against Christians from spreading again," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "In particular, the government needs to see that those responsible for these murders are swiftly arrested and prosecuted to protect Mosul’s Christians from further violence." </p> <p>According to information obtained by Human Rights Watch, on February 16, assailants impersonating secret police approached Zaya Toma and his cousin, Ramsin Shmael, while they waited at a bus stop in Mosul’s al-Tahrir district on their way to the university they attend. Speaking in Arabic, the assailants asked Toma, a 22-year-old engineering student, and Shmael, a 21-year-old pharmacy student, for their identity cards. Although identity cards in Iraq do not indicate religion or ethnicity, assailants have often used the victim’s name as a marker of his or her religious or ethnic affiliation.</p> <p>After Toma produced his card, one of the assailants shot him point-blank in the head, killing him instantly. Ramsin tried to run but was shot twice; one bullet shattered his teeth. The assailants fled, apparently assuming they had killed both students, although Shmael survived. Family members arrived on the scene before the police, to find Toma lying in a pool of blood, his books on one side of his body, his identity card on the other. </p> <p>The incident has devastated the broader family of Toma and Shmael, who escaped to northern Iraq from Baghdad in the summer of 2007 after receiving threats to kill them unless they converted to Islam. Family members say they want to move again – this time out of Iraq – to join the hundreds of thousands of Chaldo-Assyrians who have fled since 2003. </p> <p>"By killing Zaya, they have taken everything from us," a family member told Human Rights Watch. "Our only crime is that we are Christian," </p> <p>The attack was one of several killings of Christians in Mosul the same week: </p> <ul> <li>On February 20, the body of Adnan Hanna al-Dahan was found in northern Mosul. The 57-year-old Syrian Orthodox grocer had been kidnapped by unknown assailants from inside his shop a few days earlier. </li> <li>On February 17, the bullet-ridden body of Wissam George, a 20-year-old Assyrian studying to be a teacher, was found after he disappeared that morning on his way to school. </li> <li>On February 15, gunmen stormed a grocery store and killed Fatukhi Munir, its owner. </li> <li>On February 14, Rayan Salem Elias, a Chaldean man, was shot dead outside his home. </li> </ul> <p>While the identities of the perpetrators remain unknown, the spike in attacks against Christians comes only days ahead of Iraq’s March 7 parliamentary vote. Families of the victims and community leaders believe the violence is politically motivated and are appealing to the government for protection. </p> <p>The Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, Emil Shimoun Nona, said the most recent killings could prompt a new wave of refugees fleeing northern Iraq, where Christians live in constant apprehension.  Since 2003, between 250,000 and 500,000 Christians – or about half the Christian population – have left the country, according to the UN High Commission for Refugees. In January, Archbishop Nona was installed as successor to Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, whose body was found in March 2008, ten days after kidnappers seized him as he was leaving the Holy Spirit Church in Mosul.</p> <p>Human Rights Watch said that the recent attacks recall the campaign of targeted killings against Chaldo-Assyrians in Mosul in late 2008 that the organization documented in a 51-page report, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.hrw.org/en/node/86357" class="external" target="_blank">On Vulnerable Ground: Violence against Minority Communities in Nineveh Province’s Disputed Territories</a>," released in November 2009. The orchestrated violence left 40 Chaldo-Assyrians dead and led to a mass exodus of more than 12,000 from their homes in Mosul. Assailants targeted Christians in their homes, in workplaces, and in places of worship.</p> <p>Those killings began shortly after the Christian community lobbied the Iraqi parliament to pass a law that would set aside a greater number of seats for minorities in the January 2009 provincial elections. The attacks escalated after Christians held demonstrations in Nineveh and Baghdad in response to parliament’s decision (later amended) to drop a provision in the provincial elections law ensuring political representation for minorities.</p> <p>The report also documented intimidation and restrictions on freedom of movement by Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq of other minority groups in Nineveh, including Yazidis and Shabaks, during the 2009 provincial elections.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130203091632/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/02/23/iraq-protect-christians-violence" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq: Protect Christians from Violence | Human Rights Watch</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8161"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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