Ghana: Sunni, Shiite - Who Are They

11 December 2006
opinion

23 November 2006 was the bloodiest day in Iraq since the invasion and occupation of that land in March 2003. 202 people were killed in a Shiite stronghold, allegedly by Sunni suicide bombers. The Shiites who are the majority retaliated almost immediately by massacring at least 18 Sunnis.

This tit for tat Sunni- Shiite violence has been going on for some time now. It took a turn for the worse with the bombing of a sacred Shiite shrine in Samarra on 22 February 2006. Sectarian violence has become so bad that many fear that Iraq may well be on the verge of an all-out civil war.

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