<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' background='none' style='font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;width:100%;'><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'><P><STRONG>Iraqi Christians Warn of 'New Catastrophe for Humanity'<BR></STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>By Patrick Goodenough<BR>CNSNews.com International Editor<BR>May 27, 2008<BR><BR><I>(Editor's note: Adds comment from Assyrian Universal Alliance.)</I><BR><BR><B>(CNSNews.com)</B> - Days before Sweden hosts an international conference aimed at pushing ahead the political and economic reform process in Iraq, hundreds of exiled Iraqi Christians demonstrated outside the country's parliament Sunday to draw attention to the minority's plight in their homeland.<BR><BR>"A new wave of ethnic cleansing is going on in Iraq," Iraqi Christian representative Behiye Hadodo told the gathering. "If these atrocities continue, the Chaldean, Syriac and
Assyrian communities there will be wiped out altogether, creating a new catastrophe for humanity."</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><A href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200805/CUL20080527b.html">http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200805/CUL20080527b.html</A></P>
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