KURDISTAN – ZAXO EVENTS : BURNING SHOPS & THREATENING CHRISTIANS
24-2-2014 – It seems that the Islamist groups in Zaxo were sucessful when they attacked alcohol shops run by Christians and Yezidis in 2011. Besides that also christian churches and homes were attacked. The burned shops in Zakho were pasted with flyers threatening to burn down any shop that decides to reopen. It seems that this worked: Yesterday evening and this morning I could not find a single shop where I could buy a bottle of Asriyah or any other Iraqi Araq. Such a success of islamist prohibition is specially sad for a city with such an important christian and jewish history like Zaxo! – Read more: www.mesop.de