Nineveh: Five Years Since the Liberation from ISIS, Christian Chaldeans-Syriacs-Assyrians Still Afraid to Return Home

Syriac Press ^ | 3/26/22

[marshmallow]

NINEVEH PLAINS, Iraq — The predominantly Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian region of Nineveh Plains remains immersed in turbulence due to political, military and social strife. Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian displaced persons therefore remain anxious to return home.

Haifa Boutros, a Syriac IDP from Bartella, east of Mosul, stated to Irfaa Sawtak website: “We do not want to return to Nineveh because nothing encourages us to return, and we no longer have confidence after what we have experienced in 2014. We settled in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), and we do not know whether we will stay here or emigrate.”

Distrust in the security situation and the lack of even the most basic services and reconstruction projects are the basic challenges that impede the return for what have become minorities to their home areas in Nineveh Governorate. The control of Iranian and Kurdish armed militias over these areas have deepened the minority’s fears of the outbreak of internal fighting in their struggle for influence and dominance.

“Christians are still suffering from marginalization by the Iraqi regional and state governments. After the bitter events that we have experienced over the past years, we, the minorities, expected to receive attention from the Iraqi government after the liberation of our areas from the Islamic State,” said Fareed Samir, a displaced Christian Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian from Mosul. “However, we did not receive any support in terms of reconstructing our homes or even financial compensation. Therefore, we no longer think about returning home.”

[lee martell]

I can’t blame them one bit.
Stay where you are safe.

[Gary from Dayton]

Nothing has changed since Jonah’s days

[joma89]

2nd amendment ping.

[Ann Archy]

Nineveh still EXISTS???? Is it Huge like when Jonah went thru it?