Crushing Iraq's human mosaic - minorities suffering persecution verging on genocide

[Barrett808]

Crushing Iraq's human mosaic
By Patrick Jackson
BBC News

Iraq's minorities are suffering a persecution at times verging on genocide, a campaigning Iraqi MP has told the BBC News website.

Caught in a triangle of religious, ethnic and criminal violence, communities which once made up as much as 14% of the country's population get little state protection, said Hunain Qaddo, chairman of the Iraqi Minorities Council, a Baghdad-based non-governmental organisation.

The marketplace bomb attack on a Shia Turkmen village near Kirkuk on 7 July marked a new spiral of horror, according to Dr Qaddo, who believes 210 civilians, mostly women and children, died and about 400 were injured. Police reported 130 deaths at the time.

He says that his own community, the Shabaks of the Nineveh Plains, face oblivion as a people, targeted physically by al-Qaeda militants because they are mainly Shia, and politically by Kurdish separatists with claims on their land.

(more)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6293230.stm

[Solo_in_MD]

1. This is not surprising in a region where islam and the sharia are allowed to flourish

[IndianaGreen]

2. Those wonderful Shabaks, that murdered a young woman for daring to date a Sunni

The story was posted in DU a few weeks ago. In a story that was video taped with a camera phone, and subsequently broadcast to the West, the Shabaks religious wackos stormed the house and dragged the young woman out, and murdered her in cold blood.

Am I supposed to feel sorry for these savages? I don't think so!

I also don't think that American "freedom and democracy" is such a hot commodity either!

Iraq was better off under the Baathists!