Baghdad Christian district besieged
Many flee Dora as militants insist on Islam or death
By Liz Sly, Tribune foreign correspondent;
Nadeem Majeed contributed to this report
Published May 9, 2007

BAGHDAD -- Christians are fleeing in droves from the southern Baghdad district of Dora after Sunni insurgents told them they would be killed unless they converted to Islam or left, according to Christian leaders and families who fled.

Similar episodes of what has become known as sectarian cleansing raged through Baghdad neighborhoods last year as Sunnis drove Shiites from Sunni areas and Shiites drove Sunnis from Shiite ones, but this marks the first apparent attempt to empty an entire Baghdad neighborhood of Christians, the Christians say. the rest

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