(AINA) -- The Assyria Council of Europe (ACE), a lobbying group working in the EU, has published a report titled Human Rights Report on Assyrians in Iraq 2010. The report calls attention to the plight of the Assyrians in Iraq, who have suffered a low grade genocide (report) that began on June 24, when the first Assyrian church was bombed (see church bombings in Iraq).

According to the ACE report

In 2010 violence against Assyrian Iraqis remained at a high level. The year 2010 had the second highest, after 2004, murders of Assyrians since the beginning of the war. 87 Assyrians were killed From January to December 2010 in robberies, bomb attacks and kidnappings. Most single incidents of violence happened in Mosul. Because of the Sayidat al-Nejat (Our Lady of Deliverance) cathedral attack, the highest death toll of 54 Assyrians was registered in Baghdad, with a spike of violence in the last months of 2010.

The report warns that "...if urgent action is not taken to alleviate the dire situation of the Assyrians in Iraq then in the near future Iraq may be devoid of its native inhabitants [Assyrians]."