despite the fact that local official organizations have asked the governmental agencies to disclose them, or
reveal them to the public.
The number of killed Christians has reached 864 people. Most of them were registered against unknowns.
Further, the Hammurabi Organization observed 66 cases of attacks on churches and monasteries until the
end of 2012 and registered more than 200 cases of abduction, [though] this number is only 10% of the
cases, which Christians faced. It also registered more than 190 cases of different assaults on Christian
citizens and estimates that the internally displaced are more than 325 thousand, while the displaced abroad
are more than 400 thousand. The flood of displacements continues on a daily basis, while the organization
estimates that more than 10 people leave the country every day, so that the number of Christians is
confined to less than 500 thousands inhabitants after their count had been approximately 1300 million and
300 thousand in 1997, not including three provinces of the region.
In conclusion, and in light of the loss of the Christians’ economic and scientific strength and the essential
tools that distinguished them in Iraq, the choice of staying in Iraq becomes a patriotic, Arabic and Islamic
choice, because it is tied to the will of the majority and not the will of the minority of Christians. If the
majority would want them to stay, the reasoning should be to provide legal and administrative protection
and develop plans to achieve it, [however if that would not be the case] the calls that come from the
majority for the necessity of Christians to stay, cling to the land and the homeland will remain meaningless.