Remnants of Iraq's Sunni-Shiite Ethnic Cleansing In Baghdad

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - APRIL 13: The ruin of the house of the late Iraqi Sunni leader Adnan al-Dulaimi, who was accused of fomenting ethnic cleansing of Shiite Muslims by Sunni militants linked to Al Qaeda a decade ago, and of orchestrating the 2006 kidnapping of the American journalist Jill Carroll of the Christian Science Monitor, in the Al-Adel neighbourhood of Baghdad, Iraq, on April 13, 2018. On the door is painted the words "not for sale, not for rent," and "blood [revenge] wanted." The Iraqi capital was wracked by sectarian violence in mixed neighborhoods from 2005 to 2008, when Shiite death squads forced out Sunnis, and Sunni militants linked to Al Qaeda in Iraq forced out Shiites, the violence from both sides yielding a death toll of up to 3,000 each month. Since 2008, Iraqis from both sides have begun to move back into their homes in such "cleansed" districts, to slowly reestablish mixed communities. (Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)