Call for creation of autonomous Christian region in Iraq's Ninevah province after Baghdad church massacre and threats

 Assyrian,Chaldean and Aramaean Christians of Iraq¹ have called for the creation an autonomous Christian region in Iraq's Ninevah province, where they and other minorites are the majority. German NGO, Society for Threatened Peoples, supports the call saying it was allowed by the constitution and would protect Iraq's few remaining Christians. Over 75 percent of Baghdad's Christians have already left the city since 2003 after they were targeted.

Source: 1. Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (GfbV), 2. UPI

Related stories: Attack on Baghdad's Our Lady of Salvation church, Genocide and religious ethnic cleansing of Christians from Iraq 

“Barbaric” Baghdad church attackers now to target all Christians with “sword of slaughter”, call Copts “dog”, Catholics “idolaters” and insult Pope

 The self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) terror group that carried out what Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari calls a “barbaric”¹ attack on Our Lady of Salvation church, leaving sores of Christians dead, has announced that all Christians are now targets. It came after their 48 hour deadline⁴ expired for the release of two women, who they allege to have converted to Islam but are being held captive by the Egyptian Coptic church. 

 The following is included in ISI's message,

"The Ministry of War of Islamic State of Iraq declares that all the centers, organizations and bodies of Christian leaders and followers have become legitimate targets by the Mujahedeens, wherever our hands will reach them."⁴

"We will open upon them the doors of destruction and rivers of blood,"³

"Let these idolaters, and at their forefront, the hallucinating tyrant of the Vatican, know that the killing sword will not be lifted from the necks of their followers until they declare their innocence from what the dog of the Egyptian Church is doing,"²

"The sword of slaughter will not be lifted off the necks of their followers until they denounce what the dog of the Egyptian church has committed, and until they show the Mujahedeens their serious endeavor to pressure the combatant (Coptic) church for the release of our Muslim sisters, who are captive in the prisons of their monateries,"⁴

(Christians would be) “extirpated and dispersed” (from Iraq.)⁵

 [This is a public declaration of plan by Muslim terrorists to commit genocide against Christians.]

Sources: 1. 2. AFP, 3. AP 4. CNN 5. Reuters 

Video shows barbaric torture of Black Papuans by Indonesian occupiers in West Papua where genocide has already killed a fifth of the population

 The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has made public a video it received showing the recent torture of Black Melanesian West Papuans by Indonesian soldiers in the Tingginambut area near Puncak Jaya in West Papua. The video shows soldiers kicking the head Papuans sitting on grass, slapping and threatening one with a knife to the face and throat, and stepping on the chest of a tied up naked man lying on the ground before burning his genitals with a burning stick while he screams.

 West Papua has been under a genocidal Indonesian occupation since 1963, when the Dutch left. Over 100,000 or a fifth of the population has been killed by military action since then. Journalists, human right workers and academics are barred from traveling there. Although the area is rich in resources, the people there live in poverty under brutal repression where peaceful expression of opinion, rallies or raising pro-independence flags results in long prison sentences.

The torture video can be viewed here at this link.

Sources: AP, BBC, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)