Water Shortage Crisis in Assyrian Towns in North Iraq

[Sally]

It's always the innocents who have to suffer greatly while these conflicts are going on.



Water Shortage Crisis in Assyrian Towns in North Iraq
Posted 2014-07-05 22:01 GMT

Assyrian villages surrounding Mosul which are threatened by water shortage.(AINA) -- The water purification plants in Mosul supply water for the city and surrounding areas. After taking control of Mosul on June 10, ISIS severely limited the water supply from al-Rashidiya and al-Slamiya water projects, which provide the Northern and Southern Nineveh Plain with potable water (AINA 2014-06-27, 2014-06-18)

. According to a report by the Hammurabi Human Rights Organization, ISIS is allowing only about 90 minutes of pumping per day.

The Assyrian towns of Baghdede, Karemlis, Bartella, Tel Kepe, Batnaya and Bashiqah -- home to nearly 200,000 Assyrians -- face severe water shortages.

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[Hollie]

Who needs basic municipal services when you have the glory of calipha?

This is the context of the mujahideen's desire to establish in Iraq and Syria the foundation of a new Islamist world disorder—a neo-Caliphate built around the pure, undiluted corpus of the sharia, which is in turn founded upon the core principles of the koran and the sunna (traditions, precedents, examples of Muhammad and his companions). In its non-religious dimensions, however, it's the same thing as what we saw in Hitler’s Reich: a matter of political expedience in setting up a frontier base of totalitarian governance from which to eventually engage in expansionist hostility. This is all found in the teachings of mainstream Islam as per the Quran and sunna.