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Amid Escalating Fear of Massacres, Assyrian Christians Commemorate Martyr's Day 8-7-2004
Iraq
1914-1923
Excerpt: Although the Muslim holy war against the Armenians is perhaps better known, over three-fourths, or 750,000 Assyrian Christians died by outright murder, starvation, disease and the all too familiar consequences of genocide, between 1914-1923 during the Assyrian Holocaust along with a significant number of Pontic Greeks.

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Many Christians Flee Iraq, With Syria the Haven of Choice
August 2004
Excerpt: Suhair Mikhail, 33, recalls walking home from her church in Baghdad this spring with a friend, a young woman from her choir. "A car stopped, and three men got out," she said. "They began tearing my friend's clothes. They said, 'Because this is the first time we see you unveiled, we will only strip you. The next time, we will kill you.' "