Posted on 02/04/2015 6:11:46 AM PST by marshmallow
Group aims to take back Nineveh Plains from Islamists
Christians in Iraq have formed a militia to take back their Nineveh Plains homeland from ISIS.
The organisation, the Nineveh Plains Protection Units, has more than 3,000 troops serving or awaiting training, and has the backing of the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Peshmerga.
The force has 500 Assyrian Christian troops stationed in towns such as Alqosh in the Nineveh Plains to defend them from ISIS, with a further 500 being trained and another 3,000 men registered and awaiting training. Their aim is to take back the rest of the Nineveh Plains, a traditionally Christian part of Iraq, which was overrun by ISIS last summer. More than 100,000 Christians are currently displaced in the nearby Kurdish-controlled region of northern Iraq, along with a large number of Yazidis.
The Assyrian forces are allied to the Iraqi Army and Kurds but do not take orders from either, and their aim is to establish an administrate area for the Assyrians and Yazidis, as well as other minorities such as Shabaks and Mandeans.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
They can’t trust the Iraqi government, but I would work closely with the Peshmerga.
Good for them standing up to those spawns of Satan! See my tag line...
How long before Obama/kerry denounce this “vigilante action” and supply arms & support to put them down?
If I were President it is these Christian militias I would be arming and training.
They need a website. Maybe a Kickstart campaign.
Do any of you know anything about these organizations?
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