Irak, 650 000 Tote
23.05.2007 um 21:07February 12, 2007
Mosul
Goldsmith (Jeweler) Haitham H. M. Ghazala was murderedthis
morningin
Mosul.
http://www.ankawa.com/forum/index.php/topic,76459.0.html
February25,
2007
Baghdad
Bassam Jamil Mansour Breekho was killed in Baghdad due to abomb
explosion at the Administrative and Economy College, Universityof
Mustansiriyya.
http://karemlash4u.com/aaaaa/viewtopic.php?t=16089
February 26,
2007
Baghdad
Architect Walid Abd al-Ahad was killed in al-Nidhal Streetwhile on
his way towork.
http://www.ankawa.com/forum/index.php/topic,78402.0.html
March
2007
Baghdad
Muslims in the Dora neighborhood of Iraq are forcing Assyrian
Christians(also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs) to pay the jizya (poll tax), a tax
imposed bythe Koran on non-Muslim Christians and Jews in exchange for being allowed to
live andpractice their faith as well as being entitled to 'Muslim protection' from
outsideaggression. At least two cases have been reported to a government employee --who
wishes to remain anonymous -- in which the Christian Assyrian wives wereinstructed to go
to a certain mosque and pay, which they did outof
fear.
http://www.aina.org/news/20070318132901.htm (Archiv-Version vom 29.05.2007)
March19,
2007
Kirkuk
Ziyad Zito was killed when a car bomb exploded as he was on hisway
backhome.
http://www.ankawa.com/forum/index.php/topic,81921.0.html
March27,
2007
Kirkuk
Two elderly Christian women were stabbed to death in their homein
Kirkuk. Fadheela Naoum, 85, and her 79-year-old sister Margaret, were stabbedmultiple
times by intruders who raided their home Monday night near the Cathedral ofthe Virgin in
Kirkuk. They lived alone and there was no sign ofa
robbery.
http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=news (Archiv-Version vom 04.03.2007)〈=en&length=long&i
delement=4817&backpage=archives
http://www.aina.org/news/2007032791913.htm (Archiv-Version vom 11.05.2008)
The
Chaldean bishopcrate of Kikruk issued a statement on March 27 stating that thetwo
sisters were not nuns as reported earlier.
April 3,2007
Baghdad
Fredrick
John Shimshon Al-Bazi (b. 1943) was kidnapped at 1:30 byunknown armed militias as he was
returning home from his office in 'Aamiriya. Al-Bazicompleted his postgraduate studies
in civil engineering in Briton. He served hiscountry for more than 39 years as an
academic in Baghdad and Al-MustansiriyaUniversities, as an executive director of one of
the main bureaus concerned withirrigation and reformation, and as deputy minister for
Iraqi Mineral Resources.According to eyewitness reports fully covered and armed
individuals riding an Opalvehicle kidnapped Al-Bazi. They also reported that he was
beaten severely before hewas taken away.
Source: Firodil Institute.Contact
(info@firodil.co.uk)
http://www.ankawa.com/forum/index.php/topic,84339.0.html
H
e was released later after paying the ransom.
April 14,2007
Baghdad
An
unidentified Islamic group has been threatening the ChrisitanAssyrians (also known as
Chaldeans and Syriacs) in the Dora district of Baghdad, atraditionally Assyrian area.
The Islamic group issued an ultimatum yesterday toAssyrian families, telling them to
leave Christianity and convert to Islam within 24hours or they would all be killed. The
Islamic group also issued a fatwa (a religiousedict) to confiscate the property of all
Christians, to force Assyrian women to veilthemselves, to forbid genuflection (making
the sign of the Cross) and the wearing ofthe Cross. Earlier the same Islamic group
forcefully removed the Cross from thechurches of St. John and St. George. An affiliated
Islamic group in Northern Iraqoccupied the Assyrian monastery ofRaban
Hormuz.
http://www.aina.org/news/20070414141226.htm
http://www.ankawa.com/forum/ind
ex.php/topic,85801.msg2515333.html#msg2515333
April 23,2007
Tellesqof (Tell
Esqof), northern Iraq
Around 10:00 a.m., a suicide car bombattack took place in
Tellesqof, 9 miles north of Mosul. The attacker detonated his carand at least 10 people
were killed and 20 wounded. The car bomb exploded in the middleof the village market, in
front of the social club near an elementary school.Tellesqof is a predominantly
Christian town. This was the first terrorist attack inthis tight-knit community since
the Iraqwar
started.
http://www.zindamagazine.com/ThisWeek/04.25.07/index_thu.php (Archiv-Version vom 23.05.2007)
April 24,
2007
Baghdad
On Tuesday, H. Nazar Maskooni was killed when a time bombexploded at
the College of Dentistry in Baghdad. Maskooni was one of the top tenstudents atthe
college.
http://www.ankawa.com/forum/index.php/topic,90243.0.html
April26,
2007
Northern Iraq
An Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) mantraveling
from Kirkuk, North Iraq to Syria was abducted at noon today. The man,identified as Wesam
Khamis Sliwa, was traveling with his wife and sisters when theircar was stopped by
masked and armed men. Mr. Khamis was taken out of the car anddriven away; the women were
not harmed. The reason for the kidnapping is unknown andthe kidnappers have not made
contact yet. Mr. Khamis holds a degree in physicaleducation and was born inthe
1950s.
http://www.aina.org/news/20070426153743.htm (Archiv-Version vom 30.05.2007)
http://www.ankawa.com/forum/inde
x.php/topic,87859.0.html
April 2007
Sargon Ashur, a member of theAssyrian
Democratic Movement passed away on April 26, 2007 after spending two weeks ina coma. He
was ambushed, fired upon and hit in his head while on his way to work.Sargon was married
and had a girl Oryana (4 years) and a sonMattai
(1year).
http://www.zowaa.org/nws/ns7/n260407-7.htm
April26,
2007
Baghdad
Hani Hanna Yousif Bidawid (b. 1949) was shot down on Thursdaymorning
in al-Ghadeer quarters of Baghdad as he was on his way to work. Bidawid wasmarried and
had two children, Saamirand
Sally.
http://www.ankawa.com/forum/index.php/topic,87697.msg2529491.html#msg2529491<br
>
May 5, 2007
Baghdede, northern Iraq
Two Assyrian men were abductedon Tuesday
by unknown gunmen in Baghdede as they were heading to work at al-SalamHospital in Mosul.
The reason for their abduction and their whereabouts isstill
unknown.
http://assyrian4all.net/akhne/viewtopic.php?t=2984
May8,
2007
Damascus
The NBC "Nightly News" with Brian Williams (5:40 p.m. WestCoast
Time) addressed the issue of Iraqi fleeing to Syria. The NBC correspondenceinterviewed
Najeeba, an old Christian woman, whose husband was killed when one of thechurches was
bombed in Iraq. The Islamic fundamentalists asked her to convert to Islamor face death.
She packed one suitcase, left everything behind and fled to Syria. Thecameraman
videotaped the one bedroom apartment that Najeeba shared with eight others.Najeeba pays
$300 monthly for the room and the landlord had informed her that he wasgoing to increase
the rent to $600. Najeeba stated that she has nothingleft.
May 10,
2007
Baghdad
An armed Iraqi group has in recent days beguntargeting Christians in
the residential al-Doura neighbourhood of Baghdad, accordingto an interior ministry
source quoted by the pan Arab daily al-Sharq al-Awsat.Information obtained during probes
and the interrogation of various terror suspectsarrested last week indicate that this
group is linked to al-Qaeda and is made up of200 militiamen, most ofthem
foreigners.
AKI
http://www.aina.org/news/20070510124515.htm (Archiv-Version vom 12.05.2007)
May11,
2007
Baquba, Central Iraq
Mr. Gabriel Khamis Khamis an Assyrian citizenliving in
the Na’eeriya district in Baghdad was kidnapped by unknown gunmen with hiswife Feryal,
his grandson Jason (4 years old) and the taxi driver on theBaghdad-Kirkuk road. Mr.
Khamis’s son in law and his daughters Lina, Nour and Sarawere in another car but they
were able to escape and report the incident at thenearest police station. Some time
later the wife and the grandson were found in theHabhab desert after they were stripped
of their jewelry while the fate of the husbandand the taxi driverremains
unknown.
http://assyrian4all.net/akhne/viewtopic.php?t=3057
May12,
2007
Baghdad
In the past few days alone, more than 100 Assyrian Christianfamilies
have fled the Dora district of Baghdad, which had a Christian majority as thethreats to
leave their homes, pay the jizya tax or convert to Islam continues. Manymembers of
parliament, including Mahmoud Uthman, Noor al-Deen al-Hayali, Haydaral-Abadi protested
these acts against the Christians and called upon the Iraqigovernment to protectthe
Christians.
http://iraq4allnews.dk/index.php?sec=news&act=view_news&id=15405 (Archiv-Version vom 18.10.2007)
Ma
y 15, 2007
Mosul
A car bomb in Ras al-Jaadda near Qabr al-Bint on May10, 2007
claimed the life of Manhal Hanna Abbo as he was returning home from work.Abbo died
immediately as he suffered severe head injuries. He was born in 1968 in theAssyrian town
of Tellesqof. He was married and had a baby daughter fivemonths
old.
http://assyrian4all.net/akhne/viewtopic.php?t=3147
May 17,2007
Dora,
Baghdad
An Islamic militant group burned many parts of the St. GeorgeAssyrian Church
of the East in Dora district in Baghdad. A bomb targeted this samechurch three years
ago. The group responsible reached to the Cross and destroyed itwith their bare hands at
the time when the bomb failed todo
so.
http://www.brob.org/news/07/05/18/bent18a10.htm
http://www.ankawa.com/forum/ind
ex.php/topic,91570.0.html
May 18, 2007
Baghdad
The crisis for theAssyrian
community in Baghdad's Dora neighborhood is deepening. Islamists aresystematically
targeting the Christian Assyrians (also known as Chaldeans andSyriacs), forcing them to
pay the jizya (AINA 4-17-2007, 3-18-2007), a "protection"tax demanded by the Koran, or
convert within 24 hours or be killed. Dora is located 10kilometers southwest of Baghdad.
Families are abandoning their homes and seekingrefuge in Churches:
14 families have
fled to the Al-So'ud Chaldean Church.
7families have fled to Saint Odisho Assyrian
Church (3 families are in the church and 4in the Saint Adai Patriarchate, the old church
building).
An unknown number offamilies have fled to Saint George Chaldean
Church.
Islamic groups are preventingfamilies from bringing any belongings as they
flee their homes.
Hatem Al-Razaq, thesheik of the Al-Noor mosque in Dora, has toured
Dora, visiting each Assyrian familyand instructing them to pay 250,000 Iraqi dinars
($190), saying this sum is the jizyabecause "you are not Muslims." Families that cannot
pay this sum are told to send onefamily member to the mosque on Friday to announce their
conversion to Islam. Familieswho refuse to do this must leave their homes immediately
and not take any of theirbelongings with them because "your properties belong to the
mosque." Families that donot leave and do not convert are threatened with death.
In a
report by the CatholicNews Agency (AINA 5-18-2007), Mar Addai II, the Patriarch of the
Ancient AssyrianChurch of the East, says "Only the families that agree to give a
daughter or sister inmarriage to a Muslim can remain, which means that the entire
nuclear family willprogressively become Muslim." Also, Assyrian families are forced to
turn over theirhomes as ransom for theirkidnapped
relatives.
http://www.aina.org/news/20070518111715.htm
http://www.asianews.it/index
.php?l=en&art=9301&size
May 19, 2007
Baghdad
A Chaldeanpriest was kidnapped
this morning in Baghdad. He is Fr. Nawzat Potrous Hanna, parishpriest of Mar Pithion,
from the Baladiyat quarter. Confirmation of the abduction wasannounced by Msgr. Shlemon
Warduni, Chaldean auxiliary bishop in the capital, who hasinvited Catholics to “pray for
Fr. Nawzat’s immediate release”. The abductors havealready made contact with the
Chaldean Patriarchate, but as of yet there is no furthernews. The priest was leaving the
house of an ill parishioner, when he was stopped by agroup of persons who had been
waiting for him, saysthe
bishop.
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9313&size=A
http://www.st-adday.c
om/HTML/News%20Page/Chaldean%20Church/2007-051.htm
May 21,2007
Baghdad
The
Reverend Temathaus Eisha, pastor of the Church of St. Shimoniin the besieged1 Dora
district of Baghdad, confirmed to ankawa.com that theinformation published about the
forced displacement of Christian Assyrians from theirhomes in the district is accurate.
He added that the conditions were horrible,especially in the Al-Ta'ma, Al-iskan,
Al-mo'alimeen, Al-shurTa, Al-sitten, and Asianeighborhoods.
The three remaining
neighborhoods that are relatively calm are HaiAl-athuriyeen (Assyrian quarter),
Al-jim'iya, and Al-sihha.
The large-scalecampaign consists of expelling all
Christians, unless they convert to Islam or thejizya, or leave their homes and
belongings. He added that the majority of Assyrianshave abandoned these
areas.
http://www.aina.org/news/20070521131857.htm
Mosul
Goldsmith (Jeweler) Haitham H. M. Ghazala was murderedthis
morningin
Mosul.
http://www.ankawa.com/forum/index.php/topic,76459.0.html
February25,
2007
Baghdad
Bassam Jamil Mansour Breekho was killed in Baghdad due to abomb
explosion at the Administrative and Economy College, Universityof
Mustansiriyya.
February 26,
2007
Baghdad
Architect Walid Abd al-Ahad was killed in al-Nidhal Streetwhile on
his way towork.
http://www.ankawa.com/forum/index.php/topic,78402.0.html
March
2007
Baghdad
Muslims in the Dora neighborhood of Iraq are forcing Assyrian
Christians(also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs) to pay the jizya (poll tax), a tax
imposed bythe Koran on non-Muslim Christians and Jews in exchange for being allowed to
live andpractice their faith as well as being entitled to 'Muslim protection' from
outsideaggression. At least two cases have been reported to a government employee --who
wishes to remain anonymous -- in which the Christian Assyrian wives wereinstructed to go
to a certain mosque and pay, which they did outof
fear.
http://www.aina.org/news/20070318132901.htm (Archiv-Version vom 29.05.2007)
March19,
2007
Kirkuk
Ziyad Zito was killed when a car bomb exploded as he was on hisway
backhome.
http://www.ankawa.com/forum/index.php/topic,81921.0.html
March27,
2007
Kirkuk
Two elderly Christian women were stabbed to death in their homein
Kirkuk. Fadheela Naoum, 85, and her 79-year-old sister Margaret, were stabbedmultiple
times by intruders who raided their home Monday night near the Cathedral ofthe Virgin in
Kirkuk. They lived alone and there was no sign ofa
robbery.
http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=news (Archiv-Version vom 04.03.2007)〈=en&length=long&i
delement=4817&backpage=archives
http://www.aina.org/news/2007032791913.htm (Archiv-Version vom 11.05.2008)
The
Chaldean bishopcrate of Kikruk issued a statement on March 27 stating that thetwo
sisters were not nuns as reported earlier.
April 3,2007
Baghdad
Fredrick
John Shimshon Al-Bazi (b. 1943) was kidnapped at 1:30 byunknown armed militias as he was
returning home from his office in 'Aamiriya. Al-Bazicompleted his postgraduate studies
in civil engineering in Briton. He served hiscountry for more than 39 years as an
academic in Baghdad and Al-MustansiriyaUniversities, as an executive director of one of
the main bureaus concerned withirrigation and reformation, and as deputy minister for
Iraqi Mineral Resources.According to eyewitness reports fully covered and armed
individuals riding an Opalvehicle kidnapped Al-Bazi. They also reported that he was
beaten severely before hewas taken away.
Source: Firodil Institute.Contact
(info@firodil.co.uk)
http://www.ankawa.com/forum/index.php/topic,84339.0.html
H
e was released later after paying the ransom.
April 14,2007
Baghdad
An
unidentified Islamic group has been threatening the ChrisitanAssyrians (also known as
Chaldeans and Syriacs) in the Dora district of Baghdad, atraditionally Assyrian area.
The Islamic group issued an ultimatum yesterday toAssyrian families, telling them to
leave Christianity and convert to Islam within 24hours or they would all be killed. The
Islamic group also issued a fatwa (a religiousedict) to confiscate the property of all
Christians, to force Assyrian women to veilthemselves, to forbid genuflection (making
the sign of the Cross) and the wearing ofthe Cross. Earlier the same Islamic group
forcefully removed the Cross from thechurches of St. John and St. George. An affiliated
Islamic group in Northern Iraqoccupied the Assyrian monastery ofRaban
Hormuz.
ex.php/topic,85801.msg2515333.html#msg2515333
April 23,2007
Tellesqof (Tell
Esqof), northern Iraq
Around 10:00 a.m., a suicide car bombattack took place in
Tellesqof, 9 miles north of Mosul. The attacker detonated his carand at least 10 people
were killed and 20 wounded. The car bomb exploded in the middleof the village market, in
front of the social club near an elementary school.Tellesqof is a predominantly
Christian town. This was the first terrorist attack inthis tight-knit community since
the Iraqwar
started.
http://www.zindamagazine.com/ThisWeek/04.25.07/index_thu.php (Archiv-Version vom 23.05.2007)
April 24,
2007
Baghdad
On Tuesday, H. Nazar Maskooni was killed when a time bombexploded at
the College of Dentistry in Baghdad. Maskooni was one of the top tenstudents atthe
college.
http://www.ankawa.com/forum/index.php/topic,90243.0.html
April26,
2007
Northern Iraq
An Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) mantraveling
from Kirkuk, North Iraq to Syria was abducted at noon today. The man,identified as Wesam
Khamis Sliwa, was traveling with his wife and sisters when theircar was stopped by
masked and armed men. Mr. Khamis was taken out of the car anddriven away; the women were
not harmed. The reason for the kidnapping is unknown andthe kidnappers have not made
contact yet. Mr. Khamis holds a degree in physicaleducation and was born inthe
1950s.
http://www.aina.org/news/20070426153743.htm (Archiv-Version vom 30.05.2007)
x.php/topic,87859.0.html
April 2007
Sargon Ashur, a member of theAssyrian
Democratic Movement passed away on April 26, 2007 after spending two weeks ina coma. He
was ambushed, fired upon and hit in his head while on his way to work.Sargon was married
and had a girl Oryana (4 years) and a sonMattai
(1year).
April26,
2007
Baghdad
Hani Hanna Yousif Bidawid (b. 1949) was shot down on Thursdaymorning
in al-Ghadeer quarters of Baghdad as he was on his way to work. Bidawid wasmarried and
had two children, Saamirand
Sally.
http://www.ankawa.com/forum/index.php/topic,87697.msg2529491.html#msg2529491<br
>
May 5, 2007
Baghdede, northern Iraq
Two Assyrian men were abductedon Tuesday
by unknown gunmen in Baghdede as they were heading to work at al-SalamHospital in Mosul.
The reason for their abduction and their whereabouts isstill
unknown.
May8,
2007
Damascus
The NBC "Nightly News" with Brian Williams (5:40 p.m. WestCoast
Time) addressed the issue of Iraqi fleeing to Syria. The NBC correspondenceinterviewed
Najeeba, an old Christian woman, whose husband was killed when one of thechurches was
bombed in Iraq. The Islamic fundamentalists asked her to convert to Islamor face death.
She packed one suitcase, left everything behind and fled to Syria. Thecameraman
videotaped the one bedroom apartment that Najeeba shared with eight others.Najeeba pays
$300 monthly for the room and the landlord had informed her that he wasgoing to increase
the rent to $600. Najeeba stated that she has nothingleft.
May 10,
2007
Baghdad
An armed Iraqi group has in recent days beguntargeting Christians in
the residential al-Doura neighbourhood of Baghdad, accordingto an interior ministry
source quoted by the pan Arab daily al-Sharq al-Awsat.Information obtained during probes
and the interrogation of various terror suspectsarrested last week indicate that this
group is linked to al-Qaeda and is made up of200 militiamen, most ofthem
foreigners.
AKI
http://www.aina.org/news/20070510124515.htm (Archiv-Version vom 12.05.2007)
May11,
2007
Baquba, Central Iraq
Mr. Gabriel Khamis Khamis an Assyrian citizenliving in
the Na’eeriya district in Baghdad was kidnapped by unknown gunmen with hiswife Feryal,
his grandson Jason (4 years old) and the taxi driver on theBaghdad-Kirkuk road. Mr.
Khamis’s son in law and his daughters Lina, Nour and Sarawere in another car but they
were able to escape and report the incident at thenearest police station. Some time
later the wife and the grandson were found in theHabhab desert after they were stripped
of their jewelry while the fate of the husbandand the taxi driverremains
unknown.
May12,
2007
Baghdad
In the past few days alone, more than 100 Assyrian Christianfamilies
have fled the Dora district of Baghdad, which had a Christian majority as thethreats to
leave their homes, pay the jizya tax or convert to Islam continues. Manymembers of
parliament, including Mahmoud Uthman, Noor al-Deen al-Hayali, Haydaral-Abadi protested
these acts against the Christians and called upon the Iraqigovernment to protectthe
Christians.
http://iraq4allnews.dk/index.php?sec=news&act=view_news&id=15405 (Archiv-Version vom 18.10.2007)
Ma
y 15, 2007
Mosul
A car bomb in Ras al-Jaadda near Qabr al-Bint on May10, 2007
claimed the life of Manhal Hanna Abbo as he was returning home from work.Abbo died
immediately as he suffered severe head injuries. He was born in 1968 in theAssyrian town
of Tellesqof. He was married and had a baby daughter fivemonths
old.
May 17,2007
Dora,
Baghdad
An Islamic militant group burned many parts of the St. GeorgeAssyrian Church
of the East in Dora district in Baghdad. A bomb targeted this samechurch three years
ago. The group responsible reached to the Cross and destroyed itwith their bare hands at
the time when the bomb failed todo
so.
http://www.brob.org/news/07/05/18/bent18a10.htm
ex.php/topic,91570.0.html
May 18, 2007
Baghdad
The crisis for theAssyrian
community in Baghdad's Dora neighborhood is deepening. Islamists aresystematically
targeting the Christian Assyrians (also known as Chaldeans andSyriacs), forcing them to
pay the jizya (AINA 4-17-2007, 3-18-2007), a "protection"tax demanded by the Koran, or
convert within 24 hours or be killed. Dora is located 10kilometers southwest of Baghdad.
Families are abandoning their homes and seekingrefuge in Churches:
14 families have
fled to the Al-So'ud Chaldean Church.
7families have fled to Saint Odisho Assyrian
Church (3 families are in the church and 4in the Saint Adai Patriarchate, the old church
building).
An unknown number offamilies have fled to Saint George Chaldean
Church.
Islamic groups are preventingfamilies from bringing any belongings as they
flee their homes.
Hatem Al-Razaq, thesheik of the Al-Noor mosque in Dora, has toured
Dora, visiting each Assyrian familyand instructing them to pay 250,000 Iraqi dinars
($190), saying this sum is the jizyabecause "you are not Muslims." Families that cannot
pay this sum are told to send onefamily member to the mosque on Friday to announce their
conversion to Islam. Familieswho refuse to do this must leave their homes immediately
and not take any of theirbelongings with them because "your properties belong to the
mosque." Families that donot leave and do not convert are threatened with death.
In a
report by the CatholicNews Agency (AINA 5-18-2007), Mar Addai II, the Patriarch of the
Ancient AssyrianChurch of the East, says "Only the families that agree to give a
daughter or sister inmarriage to a Muslim can remain, which means that the entire
nuclear family willprogressively become Muslim." Also, Assyrian families are forced to
turn over theirhomes as ransom for theirkidnapped
relatives.
.php?l=en&art=9301&size
May 19, 2007
Baghdad
A Chaldeanpriest was kidnapped
this morning in Baghdad. He is Fr. Nawzat Potrous Hanna, parishpriest of Mar Pithion,
from the Baladiyat quarter. Confirmation of the abduction wasannounced by Msgr. Shlemon
Warduni, Chaldean auxiliary bishop in the capital, who hasinvited Catholics to “pray for
Fr. Nawzat’s immediate release”. The abductors havealready made contact with the
Chaldean Patriarchate, but as of yet there is no furthernews. The priest was leaving the
house of an ill parishioner, when he was stopped by agroup of persons who had been
waiting for him, saysthe
bishop.
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9313&size=A
om/HTML/News%20Page/Chaldean%20Church/2007-051.htm
May 21,2007
Baghdad
The
Reverend Temathaus Eisha, pastor of the Church of St. Shimoniin the besieged1 Dora
district of Baghdad, confirmed to ankawa.com that theinformation published about the
forced displacement of Christian Assyrians from theirhomes in the district is accurate.
He added that the conditions were horrible,especially in the Al-Ta'ma, Al-iskan,
Al-mo'alimeen, Al-shurTa, Al-sitten, and Asianeighborhoods.
The three remaining
neighborhoods that are relatively calm are HaiAl-athuriyeen (Assyrian quarter),
Al-jim'iya, and Al-sihha.
The large-scalecampaign consists of expelling all
Christians, unless they convert to Islam or thejizya, or leave their homes and
belongings. He added that the majority of Assyrianshave abandoned these
areas.