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Road to paradise
A large amount of Assyrian Christians have fled from unsafe areas in and around Bagdad, Basra, Mosul and Kirkuk into the relatively safe Kurdish region in Nortern Iraq. The Kurdish region comprises the 3 northern provinces of Dohuk, Erbil and Sulamaniyah. The government of these provinces is conducted by the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG).
Most displaced Iraqis (67%) have come to the province of Dohuk.Of the total amount of displaced people, the Assyrian Christians form 85%, the biggest group by far. Most of them originated from this province in earlier years, but were were expelled from this region by the Ba'ath party of Saddam Hussein's regime. This also happened to the Kurdish people in that period. The Assyrians have now settled themselves in the city of Dohuk and the villages on the Niniveh Plains, an area northwest-southeast oriented between the cities of Dohuk and Mosul.
