Displaced families want to go back to their homes

ADDING to the problem of wanton violence on the streets of Iraq are the increasing numbers of displaced families who are either returning home to lands once confiscated from them or from which they left due to terrorism.

There is also the situation of whole displaced tribes, who have fled attacks in major cities such as Mosul, Kirkuk and Baghdad and sought refuge elsewhere, like in the northern semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan.

During Saddam’s regime, many families fled north to Kurdistan in the early 1990s. Until that time, families, including many Christian ones, were persecuted under the dictator’s rule as part of his “Arabisation” of territories, which broke up ethnic groups and displaced rebel communities.