sentences:  However, persecution by Saddam Hussein continued against the Mesopotamian-Aramaic speaking Christians on an ethnic, cultural and racial level.The Neo-Aramaic language and writing was repressed, the giving of Syriac-Aramaic Christian names or Akkadian/Assyro-Babylonian names forbidden (Tariq Aziz's given name is Mikhail Yuhanna, for example), and Saddam exploited religious differences between Iraqi Christians' denominations such as the Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Assyrian Church of the East and Ancient Church of the East.Over 2,000 Iraqi Christians were ethnically cleansed from their towns and villages under the al Anfal Campaign of 1988.