IRAQ: More than 3,000 families fled due to sectarian conflict, government

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IRAQ: More than 3,000 families fled due to sectarian conflict, government says.

Source: IRIN

BAGHDAD, 21 March (IRIN) - The Iraqi Ministry of Immigration and Displacement said on Tuesday that 3,705 families had been displaced in the country, as a result of the ongoing sectarian violence.

It erupted following the 22 February bombing of a Shi'ite shrine, Al-Askariya, in Samarra, some 120 km north of Baghdad.

The attack on the Al-Askariya shrine spawned days of reprisal attacks between the country's two major Muslim sects, the Shi'ites and the Sunnis. At least 400 people were killed and dozens of mosques were damaged and destroyed, according to figures released last week by the Interior Ministry.

Sattar Nawroz, the spokesman for the Ministry of Immigration and Displacement, said that most of the displaced families went to the southern city of Najaf.

[LynnTheDem]

1. Iraq WORSE NOW than under Hussein.

Well done, bush.

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2. Hmm, Sectarian Militias, Huge Refugee Crisis

nope, no civil war here, just any other day for an eye-rackee

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