Shiites Told: Leave Home Or Be Killed:
Sunnis Force Evictions As Iraq Tensions Grow
By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
BAGHDAD, Feb. 28 -- Salim Rashid, 34, a Shiite laborer in an overwhelmingly Sunni Arab village 20 miles north of Baghdad, received his eviction notice Friday from a man at the door with a rocket launcher.
'It's 6 p.m.,' Rashid recounted the masked man saying then, as retaliatory violence between Shiites and Sunnis exploded across wide swaths of central Iraq. 'We want you out of here by 8 p.m. tomorrow. If we find you here, we will kill you.'
Shiite families take shelter in a youth center after they were forced from their homes in Sunni-dominated towns.
Shiite families take shelter in a youth center after they were forced from their homes in Sunni-dominated towns. (By Bassam Sebti -- The Washington Post)
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Walking, hitchhiking and hiring cars, the Rashid clan and many of the 25 other families evicted from the town of Mishada had made their way by Tuesday to a youth center in Baghdad's heavily Shiite neighborhood of Shoula. There, other people forced from their homes were already sharing space on donated mattresses.
With sectarian violence rampant since last week's bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra, the families have become symbols of an emerging trend in Iraq: the expulsion of Shiites from Sunni towns."
Sunnis Force Evictions As Iraq Tensions Grow
By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
BAGHDAD, Feb. 28 -- Salim Rashid, 34, a Shiite laborer in an overwhelmingly Sunni Arab village 20 miles north of Baghdad, received his eviction notice Friday from a man at the door with a rocket launcher.
'It's 6 p.m.,' Rashid recounted the masked man saying then, as retaliatory violence between Shiites and Sunnis exploded across wide swaths of central Iraq. 'We want you out of here by 8 p.m. tomorrow. If we find you here, we will kill you.'
Shiite families take shelter in a youth center after they were forced from their homes in Sunni-dominated towns.
Shiite families take shelter in a youth center after they were forced from their homes in Sunni-dominated towns. (By Bassam Sebti -- The Washington Post)
News From Iraq
* Veterans Report Mental Distress
* Shiites Told: Leave Home Or Be Killed
* Growing Threat Seen In Afghan Insurgency
* Documents Said to Tie Hussein to Killings
* Pressure on Death Count at Baghdad Morgue
More News
U.S. Fatalities
Portraits of U.S. service members who have died since 2001.
• War in Iraq | Map: 2,000 Deaths
• Operation Enduring Freedom
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Walking, hitchhiking and hiring cars, the Rashid clan and many of the 25 other families evicted from the town of Mishada had made their way by Tuesday to a youth center in Baghdad's heavily Shiite neighborhood of Shoula. There, other people forced from their homes were already sharing space on donated mattresses.
With sectarian violence rampant since last week's bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra, the families have become symbols of an emerging trend in Iraq: the expulsion of Shiites from Sunni towns."
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