[underlying]

AUA appeals ... to restore voting rights to Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs and Yazidis
Iraq
February 2005
The thousands of Assyrians, Chldeans and Syriac who fled from Baghdad to the Dohuk area because of the recent Church bombings have also been denied the right to vote.

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Iraqi Christians Flee to Safer Ground (Persecution)
Iraq
February 2005
The reason his brother-in-law was not released with the other staffers, claims Suleyman, is because the man is Christian. Other members of the brother-in-law's family have also been the target of kidnap attempts, he adds. "There is a crowd circling around the house all the time. Sometimes they come up to my sister's children and ask them to get in the car, but thanks to God they always refuse."