Persecuting The Mandaean Community

In Iraq the group of Indigenous people are known as the Mandaean community. They are an ethnoreligious, linguistic minority, and an indigenous people from Iran and Iraq. The Mandaean Human Rights Group, also known as the MHRG, speaks out for the Mandaean community. They have roughly 60,000 people with their own two thousand year old language a form of Aramaic. The Mandaean community consists of smaller more individual groups. 75% to 80% are Arab, 15% - 20% are Kurds, and an estimated 5% are Turkmans, Armenians and others. After 2003, 90% of the community fled Iraq because they were being persecuted for different religious views, ethnic supremacists, and criminals. The MHRG remains to support the Mandaean’s who live in Iraq and the refugees who live around the world. The reason the idea of persecuting the Mandaean community was conducted in 2010 by the Compilation Prepared through the “Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the Universal Periodic Review of Iraq”. At the …show more content…
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