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General Calls Attack on Yazidis 'Ethnic Cleansing'
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12800852
This doesn't bode well for the future stability of Iraq, whether US troops stay or not.NPR.org, August 15, 2007 · The death toll from four suicide bombings in northwest Iraq climbed to at least 250 on Wednesday, prompting a U.S. general to label the coordinated attacks on a small Kurdish sect "ethnic cleansing."
"This is an act of ethnic cleansing, if you will, almost genocide," U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq, told CNN.
Mixon said the Yazidis — the Kurdish sect that was targeted — live in a very remote part of Ninevah province where there is little security and has been no need for military forces. However, the Yazidis are sometimes targeted by Muslim extremists, who consider the Yazidis to be infidels.
On Tuesday, four trucks loaded with explosives were detonated almost simultaneously, killing more people than any other concerted attack on a single area since the war began.