Pamphlets in Dora calling on people to evacuate their homes and groups

20 / 07 / 2006

Pamphlets in Dora calling on people to evacuate their homes and groups
in al-Mashtal threaten the Sunnis and Christians

Nirgalgate / Agencies

Pamphlets were distributed in the past few days calling upon all the
residents of Dora regardless of their religious affiliations to evacuate
their homes, the groups that distributed these pamphlets threatened to
kill any one who remains at home.

Other groups have threatened a number of Christian and Sunni families
in al-Mashtal district to leave their homes or they would be eliminated.
In a related issue Adnan al-Dulaimi president of the Iraqi Accord Front
accused Shiite militias of killing, kidnapping, and intimidating the
Sunnis and Christians, for the purpose of displacing them from Baghdad,
and then the Shiite political parties would be able to spread their
control over the Iraqi capital. Al-Dulaimi pointed out that what is
happening in Iraq now is an undeclared civil war.

*ANA Translation note: Dora is an area in Baghdad with a heavy concentration of Assyrians

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