LOS CRISTIANOS DE IRAK EN PELIGRO DE DESAPARECER

Resumo

USA invasion to Iraq in 2003 was the cause of the fall of Saddam
Hussein´s regime and it gave rise to the violence of sects which in turn
affects the whole Iraqi society.
Apart from the violent struggles for power between the Shiite and
Sunite Islamic groups, little is known about the violence they inflicted
upon Christian communities. Christians have been living in that region
for over two thousand years before the region was islamized. These
communities have great diversity and are made up of different
churches ; their members belong to different ethnias but they all share
the impact of being victims of a genocide process on the side of radical
Islamic groups which intend to homogenize Iraq in the Islam without
any room left for the Christians.
This article resorts to a theoretical tool called «periodization of a
genocide process» and it is very useful at the time of identifying,
describing and analyzing the steps which are part of a genocide process.
The presence of Christians in Iraq has remarkably decreased due to
threats, kidnappings and murders and the situation has worsened
because of the tendency of aggressors to consider Christians as allies
of the invaders and collaborators of Saadam´s regime ; under these
circumstances they are, of course, the most common sterotypes and
consequently responsible for the evil that affects Iraq.