One would think that after the victory of driving out ISIS, all the people regardless of their different beliefs would get along and not have to fear each other.
Near Tikrit, Iraq’s Sunnis Now Fear The Shia Who Liberated Them From ISIS
By Erin Banco@ErinBanco[email protected]on April 02 2015 3:53 PM EDT
Iraqi Shiite fighters of the Hashid Shaabi militia walk with their weapons as smoke rises from a vehicle driven by an Islamic State suicide bomber, which exploded during an attack on the edge of Tikrit, March 12, 2015. Reuters/Thaier Al-Sudani
AL ALAM, Iraq -- This Sunni-majority town between Baghdad and Tikrit was liberated last month from the grip of the Islamic State group, by the Shiite militias that are driving, throughout this area, the fight against the Muslim extremists. But when residents who had fled came back to the town, they found that more than 130 people were missing. They were all kidnapped from their homes after the city was liberated, residents say. Their families hoped to find some trace of their brothers, sisters, daughters and sons, but all they found were hollowed-out and ransacked homes, crumbling storefronts and an empty town.
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Near Tikrit Iraq s Sunnis Now Fear The Shia Who Liberated Them From ISIS?
Near Tikrit, Iraq’s Sunnis Now Fear The Shia Who Liberated Them From ISIS
By Erin Banco@ErinBanco[email protected]on April 02 2015 3:53 PM EDT
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Iraqi Shiite fighters of the Hashid Shaabi militia walk with their weapons as smoke rises from a vehicle driven by an Islamic State suicide bomber, which exploded during an attack on the edge of Tikrit, March 12, 2015. Reuters/Thaier Al-Sudani
AL ALAM, Iraq -- This Sunni-majority town between Baghdad and Tikrit was liberated last month from the grip of the Islamic State group, by the Shiite militias that are driving, throughout this area, the fight against the Muslim extremists. But when residents who had fled came back to the town, they found that more than 130 people were missing. They were all kidnapped from their homes after the city was liberated, residents say. Their families hoped to find some trace of their brothers, sisters, daughters and sons, but all they found were hollowed-out and ransacked homes, crumbling storefronts and an empty town.
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Near Tikrit Iraq s Sunnis Now Fear The Shia Who Liberated Them From ISIS?