There is a fear that there may be a repetition of the dark period of 4 years ago when. in January 1969. 14 persons. including 9 Jews. were accused of spying. executed in a public square in Baghdad before a large crowd and their corpses hung there as a relic of some ancient barbarism. It is estimated that only about 500 Jews remain in Iraq out of a community that once numbered 4.000. Most of them have fled since 1969. The Iraqi Government has recently reversed an earlier decision allowing Jews to emigrate and has severely tightened emigration restrictions. Those few who are allowed to leave are permitted to take only minimal possessions with them. Those who remain live in constant fear of arbitrary arrest. imprisonment. and even death.
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