Mandaeans: Increased quota urged

Mandaeans: Increased quota urged

Anne Tarasov reports for the Liverpool City Champion:

Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews opened a new head office for the Sabian Mandaean Association... Association president Adam Farhan ... said it was an honour to have the minister open the building.

"Mandaeans live in Iraq and Iran and there are only 70,000 of us left in the world, with 4000 living in Australia and most of those in the Liverpool area," he said.  "We are a separate ethnicity and speak an ancient language which is a form of Aramaic and are followers of John the Baptist. We were persecuted by the Saddam government, but since he was removed the situation has gotten even worse.  

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