Mandaean Emergency Campaign Update

Dr. Suhaib Nashi, the spokesperson for the Mandaean Society of America, has sent me a copy of the report produced in January 2007 by the Mandaean Human Rights Group recounting the annihilation facing the Mandaeans in Iraq. The report is 31 pages long, providing documentation of the genocide occuring (sadly still even as I write this entry). The Mandaean Associations Union has an archive of related materials.

I also am providing a link to Dr. Paula Dobriansky's video report (Feb. 14, 2007) about displaced Iraqis and Iraq refugees and the urgent need to provide solutions for their resettlement and assistance, especially for those who need assylum. To view on the report, click the story label "Outlining a Strategy for Helping Iraqi Refugees."

Dr. Nashi encourages a letter campaign. In an earlier blog entry, I posted a template letter. He says that we should send our letters requesting that they treat the Mandaean cases not as individual cases but as a collective group threatened with annihilation to:

1. our representatives in Congress and the Senate
2. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, State Department, 2201 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20520
3. Dr. Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs, State Department, 2201 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20520
4. Ellen Sauerbrey, Assistant Secretary for the US Government's Refugee Operations, State Department, 2201 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20520