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"en.20130612.65.3-693-000"2
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"Mr President, the persecution and oppression of religious minorities in Iraq should give us all great cause for concern. The ongoing bloody conflict between the Shias and the Sunnis continues to attract the world’s attention while the systematic obliteration of many of the ethnic religious groups goes on virtually without being noticed.
Iraq’s Assyrian Christian community is one of the oldest in the world, dating back to the first century AD. Twenty years ago there were more than one and a half million Christians in Iraq but Saddam Hussein implemented a policy of Arabisation and forcible relocation of the Christian communities in Nineveh in Northern Iraq. Today, with continued violent oppression and attacks, there are fewer than 300 000 Christians left. Hundreds of thousands have fled to the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan. Three hundred and thirty thousand fled to Syria and have been again displaced by the civil war raging in that country, most of them fleeing to Turkey.
It is time that we did something about it. My Delegation for Relations with Iraq will hold a special meeting about the persecution of religious minorities next Thursday."@en1
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