Saddam's terrorizing of Christian villages

Secret documents found in Iraq reveal a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing by former President Saddam Hussein against indigenous Assyrian Christians living in northern Iraq.

According to the Rev. Ken Joseph Jr., a leader in the Assyrian Christian community, the documents tell of a "decades-long pattern" of persecution and "Islamization" by Saddam.

Writes Joseph in a column on AssyrianChristians.com:

"Entitled 'The Settlements and Villages of the Christian Assyrians in the Region of Kurdistan Iraq,' the document, which goes to 104 pages, is a shocking view of a previously mostly unknown campaign of terror against a tiny minority in Iraq."

Joseph says 290 villages were named in the documentation with the word "destroyed" next to each one.

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