Iraq: Ethnic cleanings of Christians is ongoing, UK analyst says
What Iraq’s Christians want from the West is to say the plain truth: that there is ethnic cleansing of Christians in the region and it is ongoing, Tim Stanley told a meeting at the U.K.’s Parliament last Tuesday.
The historian and columnist, working for U.K. daily newspaper The Telegraph, just returned from a visit to Iraq’s Nineveh Plains.
“If we don’t say what is really happening in the region, which is ethnic cleansing of both Christians and Yazidis, we allow Islamic State and other perpetrators to get away with it,” Stanley told the audience at the event, ‘The Global Persecution of Christian Minorities,’ organized by the Henry Jackson Society, a British foreign-policy think tank....
Paul Fountain | 1/30/2009
