Bombs kill 1, injure over 100 in Assyrian town of Baghdida - Northern Iraq
Baghdida - Assyria - Iraq
02-05-2010
Two bombs killed one person and injured over 100 others in northern Iraq on Sunday, police said, in what appeared to be an attack on the country's Christian minority. A car bomb and a roadside bomb went off near buses carrying university students close to the turbulent and ethnically diverse city of Mosul. The dead man was a Christian shop owner near the blast scene, police said. The buses were transporting the students from the mainly Christian town of the Assyrian town of Baghdida (Hamdaniya), 40 km (25 miles) east of Mosul."All of them were Christian students. They go in buses like that to Mosul's university after the troubled times when Christians were targeted in the past," Nissan Karoumi, mayor of Hamdaniya said.
May the victim rest in peace, may his family be consoled, and speedy recovery for the wounded.
The majority of Iraq’s Christians, are Assyrians, affiliated with different Churches and since the U.S. led invasion in March 2003, they have been subjected to severe acts of violence and as they form the weakest link in the Iraqi mosaic, they've been continuously ignored and marginalized by the local and foreign authorities which are governing Iraq at present in addition to being obscured by the media.
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Reuters
