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by Uzay Bulut • March 30, 2018 at
5:00 am
- "These murders
are giving us yet another signal that there is no place for
Assyrian Christians in Iraq." — Ashur Sargon Eskrya,
President of the Assyrian Aid Society-Iraq.
- "The only way
for us to have a bright future is to establish a local
administration in the Nineveh Plain lands, which will be a
safe haven for all persecuted communities, including
Yazidis... [It] should be protected internationally. This
would also include forming a no-fly zone, and having the
province monitored by international powers for a temporary
period until we strengthen our military force and reconstruct
our areas." — Athra Kado, the head of the Assyrian
Democratic Movement, Alqosh, Iraq.
Pictured:
Soldiers of the Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU), an Assyrian
security force, in a training exercise. (Image source: NPU)
On March 8, three members of an Assyrian Christian
family -- Dr. Hisham Maskoni, his wife, Dr. Shadha Malik Dano, and
her elderly mother -- were stabbed to death in their home in
Baghdad. The two doctors, who had left Iraq, the country of their
birth, in 2003, returned five years ago to work at St. Raphael
Hospital in the capital.
The victims, who lived in a neighborhood controlled
by a Shiite militia, had been tortured, according to Ashur Sargon
Eskrya, president of the Assyrian Aid Society-Iraq, in an interview
with Gatestone.
Eskrya also said that the motive behind the killings
-- as in the case of an innocent Christian killed in Baghdad in
February -- had not been established, and that so far, no suspects
have been arrested. "These murders," he added, "are
giving us yet another signal that there is no place for Assyrian
Christians in Iraq."
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