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NIGERIA : MUSLIM MILITANTS TARGET EXPELLED CHRISTIAN STUDENTS
Nigeria
February 2005
“Muslim militants went to Gombe to … kill Hannatu, but fortunately, she was not at home at the time. The family was held at gun point. Hannatu’s father happens to be a former military officer. He wrestled with the militants and was able to disarmed one of them who had a gun. While he was fighting them, one of the militants stabbed Hannatu’s mother with a knife. She has been treated for the wounds.”

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Assyrians Prevented By Kurds From Voting in North Iraq
Iraq
January 2005
The KDP's specific targeting of the Nineveh Plain is no mere coincidence. The Nineveh Plain contains the last remaining stronghold of predominantly Assyrian towns and villages in the immediate environs of the ruins of Nineveh, the ancient Assyrian capital.