Chaldean prelate looks forward to rebuilding Iraq after defeat of Islamic State
August 05, 2016
Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako has suggested a plan for the reconstruction of Iraq, based on the possibility that a new offensive will drive the Islamic State out of the region around Mosul and the Nineveh Plains.
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The Iraqi prelate said that if families who fled from that region are able to return to their homes, the process of reconstruction should be based on a rejection of violence, a determination to stop terrorism, a firm understanding that religion must not be invoked to support violence, and a commitment to peaceful coexistence.
The Chaldean Patriarch conceded that he was looking beyond current problems to imagine better days. At the moment, he said, “terrorism has not been defeated yet; the conflicts are not over; violations of human rights are still growing at different levels; the efforts for national reconciliation came to a halt; and the promises of eradicating corruption, reforming, establishing a civil government, and fighting against unemployment, poverty, illiteracy and diseases, did not go beyond being promises only.”
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