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Human Rights Report on Assyrians in Iraq 2011: The Exodus from Iraq (PDF)

Human Rights Report on Assyrians in Iraq 2011:
The Exodus from Iraq
by Assyria Council of Europe

The rich and colourful diversity that used to signify Iraqi culture and its historical roots are severely threatened at the dawn of the 21st century. Iraq’s road to stability is blocked by a flaring conflict between a resurgent Shi’ite majority and a humiliated Sunni minority as well as from the expansionist aspirations of an over-confident Kurdish administration in North Iraq. Given the huge exodus of minorities and continuing threats and violence in 2011, there is a genuine worry that Assyrians (also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs) in Iraq may not survive the current conflict and that their unique culture and heritage will slowly disappear from Iraq.

Despite a general decrease of violence in 2011, Assyrians and other minorities are constantly experiencing targeted violence, threats and intimidation. They do not have their own militias to defend them and do not receive effective protection or justice. In addition, minorities are also subjected to a pattern of official discrimination, marginalisation and neglect, and suffer from the effects of corruption and a policy based on sectarian interests. Assyrians perceive that they do not belong to the current Iraq and that they are being excluded from civil society. Because of the continuing displacement processes, many Assyrians are not able to sustain themselves, lacking a regular source of income, opportunities and education, and neither the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) nor the central Iraqi government provides sufficient assistance. In addition to the lack of life opportunities, especially in the KRG region and in the Nineveh Plains, Assyrians and other minorities experienced a significant rise in hostile acts and riots inside the KRG boundaries in 2011 compared to 2010. Feeling desperation, Assyrians have become restless people moving from one place to the other, and often express the desire to emigrate.

The huge exodus that has taken place since 2003 marks the biggest threat to the survival of minorities in Iraq. More than half of the Assyrian community has left Iraq since 2003: From more than 1.5 million Assyrians, the Assyrians population is estimated at approximately 500,000 today. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), minorities make up more than 30 per cent of the 2 million Iraqi refugees seeking sanctuary in Jordan, Syria and across the world; the majority of these are Assyrian Christians. Moreover, they represent an enormously disproportionate number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of refugees who moved to neighbouring countries remain trapped in poverty and chronic uncertainty. Unable to return home or to resettle elsewhere, many face growing desperation with each passing year in exile.

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Iraq Tribunal: The Israel Connection (Alison Weir)
October 13, 2022
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeGrVI0fxrU
This was eventually published on the Iraq Tribunal website - https://www.iraqtribunal.org/alison_weir
The articles mentioned in the video:
"White Man's Burden," by Ari Shavit, Ha'aretz, April 3, 2003: http://iakn.us/2ggApnF
"Perles of Wisdom for the Feithful," by Akiva Eldar, Ha'aretz, October 1, 2002: http://iakn.us/2hkzdzo
"The Bush Neocons and Israel," by Kathleen and Bill Christison, Counterpunch, December 2002: http://iakn.us/2h1ajEi
"Neo-Cons, Israel and the Bush Administration," by Stephen Green, Counterpunch, February 2004: http://iakn.us/2ggBcVi 
Books mentioned in the video:
"The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel​" by Dr. Stephen J Sniegoski: http://iakn.us/2geT2mJ​
"The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War" by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad: http://iakn.us/2hoz4Hn
"The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt: http://iakn.us/2gfPFAR 
Some additional books with information on this topic:
"Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market​" by Janine R. Wedel: http://iakn.us/2hoBKEW
"Queen of Chaos: The Misadventures of Hillary Clinton"​ by Diane Johnstone: http://iakn.us/2gojmhO
Wedell discusses the "massive and concerted ​'information​' effort conducted by the Neocon core and their associates, with crucial participation from certain columnists and reporters, that was essential in taking the United States to war in Iraq​."​
"​....​beginning in the mid-1970s, they employed methods ranging from the creation of alternative intelligence; to might-be-authorized, might-not-be authorized diplomacy; to setting up pressure groups; to suspending standard government process, always contesting government information, assessments, and expertise. These methods—perfected over the years—would be deployed in full force in the Neocon core’s effort to take the United States to war in 2003.​"
Johnstone states: "...the neocons gained notoriety as architects of the disastrous invasion of Iraq. The main thinker behind this war was Bush’s Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Paul Wolfowitz​..."
"...two veterans of the defunct PNAC, William Kristol and Robert Kagan, returned in 2009 to found the Foreign Policy Institute (FPI). Robert Kagan is the current leading neocon theorist and the husband of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, instigator of the Ukrainian coup in early 2014.​​​"
For information on the early roots of the Israel lobby, please see Alison Weir's book, "Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel": http://iakn.us/AOBJ-book
More information at https://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/neocons.html 
For information on the efforts against Iran, please see http://iakn.us/2gUjFif and http://iakn.us/2gUls6T
License: Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)