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Kurdistan Region-Iraq News in brief
16.10.2006
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Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil, Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Region (Iraq), October
16,
2006
Baath letter - 43 educational specialists were to
have been awarded honors for rejecting Kurdish
43 education specialists and staff recommended that
Kurdish be replaced by Arabic as the language of
instruction.
According to letter from Baath Party northern
office, dated 18 March 1989, no. 71, and addressed
to the Erbil Baath branch, 43 education specialists
and staff recommended that Kurdish be replaced by
Arabic as the language of instruction in Erbil and
Sulaimaniyah governorates in view of the Dohuk
experiment in Arabic education. It was stated in the
letter that this change would help to change the way
the people of these areas thought and behaved
towards the Baath.
They had planned to complete 70% of the project in
the 1989-1990 academic years and fully implemented
by 1990-1991, thus ending Kurdish language education
in Iraq permanently. The letter emphasized that the
Anfal Operations, a massacre of tens of thousands of
Kurds carried out in late 1980s, had led most
Kurdish independence fighters to flee and, that
Kurdish studies were a racist chauvinist movement in
the Kurdish areas and should be rooted out.
Among the 43 education specialists who were
recommended for awards for there avocation of Arabic
education, some have been killed; others are outside
Iraq although some are still living in Kurdistan.
Iraqi Red Crescent Society aids refugees
The families from Mosul, Tikrit, and Baghdad who
sought refuge in Kurdistan are living in Dohuk.
An official from IRCS Duhok branch told the Peymaner
News Agency that in the last twenty days they have
been able to distribute clothes and foodstuff to
four thousand Arab refugees from South and Central
Iraq who have relocated to Duhok district. Layla
Bamarni, the Head of IRCS, Dohuk branch, told
Payamner "the families from Mosul, Tikrit, and
Baghdad who sought refuge in Kurdistan are living in
Dohuk"
The official also stated that the association
started work two years ago and currently focus their
work on helping Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs)
in the Dohuk region.
The recent upsurge in violence in the central and
southern regions of Iraq has led to the displacement
of tens of thousands of families. Thousands of these
families have sought refuge in Kurdistan.
140 committee in Kirkuk
Dr. Kamal Kirkuki chaired a meeting of the 140
committee- in charge of normalizing the situations
in Kirkuk
Dr. Kamal Kirkuki, Kurdistan National Assembly's
Deputy Speaker, chaired a meeting of the 140
committee- in charge of normalizing the situations
in Kirkuk in line with Iraqi constitution- in the
Kurdistan parliament. After assessing activities and
works, the committee is to receive evidence which
the Kurdish political factions that they hope will
prove that Kirkuk and other disputed areas are part
of Kurdistan. The efforts of the committee towards
the implementation the controversial article were
also assessed during the meeting.
The implementation committee for article 140, made
up of Dr. Muhammad Ihsan, KRG Extra Regional Affairs
Minister, Hashim Shebli, Federal Minister of
Justice, Narmin Osman, Federal Minister of
Environment, and Jasim Muhammad Jaafar, Federal
Minister of Sport and Youth, also visited Kirkuk and
met with governor and members of the local
administration.
The head of delegation pointed out that members of
the committee were impartial, working according law
and will open two extra offices in Khanaqin, south
of the northern province of Sulaimaniya, and Shangal,
east of the northern city of Mosul. The delegation
also announced that 200 million US dollars, the
suggested budget of article 140, has been approved
by Iraqi government.
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