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ASSYRIAN CHRISTIAN LEADER CALLS FOR MORE PROTECTION (from Muslim violence) FOR HIS PEOPLE
Iraq
October 2004

Excerpt: Assyrian Christian leaders demanding Reconstruction of 292 destroyed Assyrian Christian Villages, Resettlement of nearly 100,000 Assyrian Christians driven out of their land by Saddam Hussein

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"We Are in the Modern Catacombs," Says Young Iraqi Catholic
Iraq
October 2004
1915
1950

Excerpt:
Thousands of Christian Families Reportedly Have Fled Baghdad ..."Iraqi Christians are obliged to celebrate Mass in churches' basements. They live under the constant threat of death,"..."In 1915, in the Christian city of Mardine, in the north of the country, there was real ethnic cleansing. My grandparents lived there. Around 1950, Christians suffered other persecutions and today this tragic history is being repeated," Elias said.