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Iraq's Sectarian Violence

The recent surge in violence in Iraq has echoes of the sectarian conflict in 2006-07.

We hear from May Witwit, an Iraqi academic who lived throught that bloody period.

The recent surge in violence in Iraq has echoes of the sectarian conflict in 2006-07. We hear from May Witwit, an Iraqi academic who lived throught that bloody period. She eventually fled the country, after seeing her name on a militia hit list.

(Photo: Iraqi women mourn the death of their murdered relatives, Nov 2006. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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Fri 28 Jun 2013 07:50GMT

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