"Changing the teaching of religions in the schools, at home and generally in all places of worship, reforming the clergy to make it more and more attentive to modern society, and pushing the governments to respect human rights". A few days after the terrorist attack in Emerli (Kirkuk), one of the bloodiest since 2003, where a truck bomb killed over 170 people and wounded 150, it is the bishop of Kirkuk, mgr. Louis Sako, who speaks and offers his ‘recipe’ to face the upsurge of violence that is hitting Iraq more and more seriously. "The terrorist attacks hit all the Iraqis, without distinction of religion", he stated to SIR. "Armed attacks, murders, abductions are a daily fact, and the troublemakers are members of the defunct Baath party, the criminals freed by the regime before the war, the Arab fighters (Moujahidin) and the Muslim fundamentalists. Everyone explains mgr. Sako wants to hinder the roadmap to a democratic, pluralist and modern Iraq. The criminals are after money, the party members are after power, the fundamentalists think they can be the guardians of the only truth and therefore those who reject it must be wiped out". In this scenario, the Christians are the "first victims because they are compared to the Americans and, because many of them are comparatively wealthy, they are also kidnapped". However concludes the Chaldean bishop, "the country can be rebuilt with the help of the UN".
