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Iraq's Christians face ethnic cleansing Following letter was sent to the newspaper in response to an article regarding the situation in Iraq which did not include Assyrians. Glyn Ford and Dr Charles Tannock Members of the European Parliament and patrons of the Save the Assyrians campaign together with Andy Darmoo wrote to the Independent bringing this to the attention of the Newspaper for not including the Assyrians in the publication.  This weeks after the EU resolution was passed in strasbourg regarding the plight of the Assyrian community in Iraq and the justification for an autonomous region around the highly Assyrian populated Nineveh Plains. The campaign has and will always endevour to make it known that any non inclusion of the Assyrian name, National and Religious rights will not be tollerated or accepted.  The Assyrians are the indeginous people of Iraq. Letter to the Editor The Independant UK May 24, 06 Sir: Patrick Cockburn (20 May) is right: the ethnic cleansing going on in Iraq is terrible but he hardly mentions the plight of the Assyrians. The indigenous Iraqi Assyrians community is nearly a million strong and represents nearly 10 per cent of the population centred on the Nineveh plain. This Christian community is being ethnically cleansed from the suburbs of Baghdad, Basra and elsewhere. Atrocities abound, with women sporadically having acid thrown in their faces and even being killed in some cases for wearing jeans or not wearing the veil, especially in the Mosul area. Young men are being forced to flee into exile to escape death threats and assassination. This means they are not able to work or study, a disaster for a whole new generation of Iraqi Assyrians and Christians. Unlike the Sunni, Shia and Kurds they as yet have nowhere else to call home, despite the European Parliament's plea that the Nineveh plain be recognised as an autonomous Assyrian area. The European Parliament last month voted virtually unanimously for this threatened community to be allowed to establish on the basis of section 5 of the Constitution a federal region where they are free from outside interference and can practice their own way of life. Jordan and Syria have already seen hundreds of thousands of Assyrian Christian refugees but many more will join if protection is not provided urgently by the government of Iraq and the coalition forces. GLYN FORD MEP (LABOUR, SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND) DR CHARLES TANNOCK MEP (CONSERVATIVE, GREATER LONDON) ANDY DARMOO SAVE THE ASSYRIANS CAMPAIGN EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT BRUSSELS http://comment.independent.co.uk/letters/article570914.ece ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christians of Iraq also suffer their share of caualties when other Iraqis are attacked. Linda Matti, a Christian Assyrian who happened to be in a restaurant next to the mosque on Tuesday was killed when a bomb planted in a motorcycle parked in the courtyard of a Shiite mosque exploded and killed 11 people and wounded at least nine, in the Tunis neighborhood of northern Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, May 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)  Below a muslim friend of the Christian victim, center, grieves at the funeral Wednesday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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