The Nun Helping Iraq's Underground Exiles

The systematic ethnic cleansing of Christians from Iraq is an under reported travesty. Rape, murder and torture are being used against Iraqi Christians in order to force them from the new" Iraq. Their plight when driven to Turkey is little better. This is what can be expected from Islam "the religion of peace". Here is the story of a German Nun working with the dispossessed Christians of Iraq.

"Starvation is the most powerful feeling,"

"She was able to give £480 to a 13-year-old who had been kidnapped and repeatedly raped for two weeks until the gangsters released her for £4,000."

Hello Condi Rice, hello UN, hello World Court. Where are you?

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FROM AINA.ORG:
Assyrian International News Agency

The Nun Helping Iraq's Underground Exiles

'When Saddam was thrown out the Muslim fanatics started sending threatening letters to us by post. They demanded we leave the country or be 'ready to die'. One day six masked men came to our house and tied my husband up, and each raped me in front of him. We decided we had to escape from that place."
The war in Iraq has led to suffering on an unimaginable scale, a million different stories of grief, violence and exile. But in this war - as in all wars - the unspoken background evil is the crime of rape. And for the Christian women of Iraq it is a tale repeated so often that it is hard to ignore. But, tragically for many of the women who fled, their ordeal did not end at the border.
About 13,000 Iraqi Christian refugees are now in Turkey, including 7,000 in Istanbul, crammed into the five poorest districts, waterlogged wastelands where the refugees huddle in the basements of condemned buildings.
These cellars are wet and foul-smelling, and because they are below the sewer line levels they have no toilets. There up to 80 people per basement live, cook and eat, digging small pits to make latrines. It smells foul, but they have no choice: to go back to Iraq would mean death.
The accommodation is controlled by local criminals, who demand £24 per person (children included) every month in rent. Anyone who fails to cough up is throw out into the street. Because they are illegal the refugees cannot register for work, nor even walk outdoors without fearing that the police will find them and thrown them in jail or - worse - send them back across the border.
Some of the women have found domestic work where they are poorly paid for their harassment, humiliation and even sexual abuse. If they tell the police they will be thrown in jail. Starvation and sickness are common.
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