by Suleyman Gultekin
December 19, 2011 at 3:45 am
December 19, 2011 at 3:45 am
Attacks continue in Iraq for the Christians and other minorities. There is no single day without incidents, intimidation or such against the Iraqi Christians and other minorities. It is about a year after the deadly attack against the Syriac church of Our Lady of Salvation, and the nightmare continues.
In 2010, Church officials described the attack, which began when gunmen seized the Church during Sunday mass, as the bloodiest against Iraq's Christians in the seven years of sectarian war that followed the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. After the church attack, one witness to it, Rudy Khalid, a 16-year-old Christian who lived across the street, said: "We have lost part of our soul now," He shook his head. "Our destiny, no one knows what to say of it."
We believed that the North of Iraq (KRG) could offer security for the Christians and other minorities but this bloody attack of 2nd December 2011 tells us the contrary. It caused at least 25 people, many of them Christian, to be wounded in an attack carried out by a group of Kurds in the Dohuk Governate in the north of Iraq.. Read the rest on:
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