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Scores attend local memorial for Assyrians

Source: Daily News
Mosul : Iraq | about 1 year ago  
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The murder of more than a dozen Assyrians in Iraq this month and a mass exodus of Christians from their ancestral homeland drew 100 residents Sunday to a memorial service to pray for an end to what they call a systematic ethnic cleansing. The gathering at the Assyrian Center in North Hollywood included...
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