Iraqis who fled Daesh blame political rot for tragic wedding fire

Iraqi Christians, once driven from their village by Daesh, are blaming another enemy for an inferno that killed more than 100 of their friends and relatives at a wedding this week: chronic political rot and lax governance, Reuters reports. After returning from years of exile during Iraq’s war with the extremist Islamists, residents rebuilding their lives in their hometown of Hamdaniya said that where the vanquished jihadists had failed to kill them, corruption succeeded. “Islamic State didn’t kill us, this catastrophe killed us,” Priest Boutros Shito said, speaking at a local church hall, while mourners buried the remains of their loved ones. Shito lost both his parents, two of his sisters and two nephews to the fire, which tore through […] Source

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