Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Kiristocin Assuriyawa sun sha wahala daga nuna bambanci tun lokacin da Saddam Hussein ke da manufofin Arabization a cikin shekarun 1980, tare da sabon misali na nuna bambanci shine mamayewar ISIS na filayen Nineveh da Mosul
, inda dubun dubatar mutane suka tsere, kuma an lalata wuraren kirista da yawa. Adadin Krista a Iraqi gaba daya tun bayan mamayewar 2003 ya ragu da kusan kashi 60%, daga 800,000 zuwa 300,000, kuma a 1987, wannan adadin ya kai kusan miliyan 1.4. mamayewar 2014 ta ISIS mai yiwuwa ya rage wannan lambar.