Security problems are sweeping through the
capital city of Baghdad; due to the absence of security forces; the terrorist groups are
harassing and assaulting Assyrians in the Dora neighborhood, as well as other
areas. The terrorist are pressuring Assyrians to convert to Islam or leave their
homes and their properties. Under the fatwa’s issued by the terrorists without
the slightest regard to the concepts of humanity; many of our people turned to the Office of the
Assyrian General
Conference (AGC) in Baghdad for help. To solve this problem the AGC Bureau officials have escalated these security
problems to Iraqi officials in an attempt to stop these unimpeded assaults on
Assyrian people and the people of Iraq.
Considering, this
painful reality, the Assyrian General Conference calls on all those in the
Iraqi government, to provide security to Iraqi citizens. They should take into
consideration the extraordinary circumstances of this religious oppression
imposed upon our Assyrian people in Iraq; who are being prevented from exercising their
own religion and being denied to worship per their beliefs. The Iraqi
government should do everything in its power to stop the brutality of this
religious oppression, because it does not serve the unity of Iraq with all its components and religious
nationalism.
Also, the Assyrian
General Conference is appealing to all global institutions, especially the
United Nations, the European Parliament and human rights organization to
intervene immediately to stop the oppression and displacement of our people in Iraq, the Assyrian homeland.
Assyrian General Conference Media 29.4.2007
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