“Old habits Die hard”

June, 2007. According to an Iraqi government employee, in the Hay al-Amiriya quarter a Sunni "Amir" (prince) demanded the car belonging to an Assyrian brother and sister who are orphans; their priest advised them to give up the car, which they did. The "prince" later returned and officially asked for the girl's hand in marriage. The girl had to go into hiding
May, 2007-06-04. In Dora, Baghdad, a predominantly Assyrian neighborhood in south Baghdad, an al-Qaeda "prince" instructed the Christian Assyrians to surrender women to the mosque.
In a report by the Catholic News Agency, Mar Addai II, the Patriarch of the Ancient Assyrian Church of the East, says "Only the families that agree to give a daughter or sister in marriage to a Muslim can remain, which means that the entire nuclear family will progressively become Muslim.
May 3, 1999. Dohuk. The body of Ms. Helena Aloun Sawa, 21, was found in early June by a shepherd, partially buried in a shallow grave in near Dohuk dam. She had disappeared on May 3rd. The decomposed body was partially exposed and appeared to have been partially eaten by scavenging wild animals. She had been working for Azet Al Din Al Barwari, a high ranking member of the political bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, who was
suspected in her murder.
September 16, 1996. Witnesses in North Iraq said that a group of armed PKK Kurdish guerillas abducted a fifteenyear-old Assyrian girl named Ahlam Patrus Nissan from her village. Local farmers and others who witnessed the kidnapping said they saw the girl being carried off with an expression of fear on her face. The PKK admitted that they had the girl but they claim she joined them willfully.
They have refused to allow anyone to speak to her. She was forced to marry her kidnapper and convert to Islam.
January 20, 1996. 13 year-old Janet Oshana, from the village of Mulla-Urab, near the town of Zakho, was kidnapped by a Kurd, Khorshid Othman Kalash. She was never returned to her parents.
January 13, 1996. Wasan Mishael, a 16 year-old Assyrian girl from Simele, was kidnapped at gunpoint from her home. Under extreme emotional and physical pressure and abuse, she was forced to denounce her Christian religion and marry one of her kidnapers.
1993 Mr. Lazar Mati daughter, 15, was kidnapped by a Kurd named Mohamed Babakir and forced to marry him and convert to Islam.












