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Shiites Told: Leave Home Or Be Killed

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."
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