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Kurdistan Region-Iraq News in brief
19.10.2006 |
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Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil, Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Region (Iraq), October
19,
2006
Ministry of Peshmarga denies plans to guard
regional borders
The Ministry of Peshmarga Affairs has denied
newspaper reports that its forces will guard
regional borders.
Saying it has not yet been decided whether or not to
use them. Maj. Gen. Omer Osman Minister of Peshmarga,
and Shekh Ja'afar Shekh Mustafa, Minister of State
for Peshmarga Affairs, both rejected the news after
it was published in the pan-Arab Al-Hayat newspaper.
The article implied that Kurdistan Peshmarga would
guard the borders of the Kurdistan region in
cooperation with the Iraqi Defense Ministry, under
American and British supervision.
"What has been published is too early to announce,
as it needs further review", said Minister Osman.
"We are still in negotiations. Whenever we are close
to a final decision, we will make it all clear, and
I am reassuring everyone that we have not spoken on
the record about this."
State Minister Mustafa also said that "we did not
agree on anything officially, but we hope we reach
an agreement in that regard. As Kurdistan
government, we only negotiate on how to unite
Peshmarga forces of Kurdistan," he said.
CHAK prefers trial over committee for the
blacklisted
Among the names were a number of current influential
and high-ranking members of the Kurdistan government
and political parties.
In a recent statement by the CHAK center, the
anti-genocide and Anfal group, the group says it
prefers a trial over forming a committee to
investigate a number of Kurdish people recently
blacklisted as alleged spies for the former regime
of Iraq.
In the statement, the group calls for an immediate
trial of all individuals believed to have been spies
for the former Iraqi regime. "All individuals with
red hands and black files should be given to the
court as suspects," the statement reads, in
reference to the alleged spies.
Over the past couple of weeks, the independent
Kurdish weekly of Hawlati published the names of a
number of Kurdish individuals suspected of having
had links to the intelligence apparatus of the
former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. Among the
names were a number of current influential and
high-ranking members of the Kurdistan government and
political parties.
Following the disclosure of the names, Kurdistan
President Massoud Barzani ordered the formation of a
special committee from the regional parliament to
immediately investigate the background of the
individuals and bring them to face justice.
Professors seek definitive link between chemical
attacks and cancer
Professors said they were seeking to scientifically
prove the connection between exposure to chemical
substances and the potential of falling ill with
cancer.
The Kurdistan Regional Government Minister of
Martyrs and Anfal Affairs, Chinar Saad Abdulla, met
with Anwar Shekha and Michael Dehofsin, two cancer
specialists and professors from the American
University of Mississippi whoa reworking on the
effects of the usage of chemical weapons by the
former regime of Saddam Hussein.
Talks centered on conducting medical examinations on
the victims of Halabja to determine the potential of
contracting cancer as a result of exposure to the
chemical attack that was carried out by the former
Iraqi regime in the city.
The two professors said they were seeking to
scientifically prove the connection between exposure
to chemical substances and the potential of falling
ill with cancer.
The Minister thanked the two professors for their
benevolent research and voiced the full support of
the Ministry to their project.
Swedish TV to air the Kurdish movie Anfal
Swedish TV, channel 8, is going to show the Kurdish
movie Anfal, In the name of God, Baath and Saddam.
Since its production, the movie has been shown at
several international film festivals. Now, It will
air three times: Wednesday, October 24, at 2100 and
2330, and Thursday, October 26, at 1800.
Mano Khalil, a famous Kurdish director and producer,
made the movie in cooperation with Swiss TV. The
film was entered in Solotoron, Singapore, and Greek
film festivals, and will soon play in Montreal and
London.
Scenes from Anfal, In the name of God, Baath and
Saddam were shot last year. The movie narrates the
Anfal campaign in detail, when thousands of Kurds
disappeared under the Ba'ath regime.
Anfal, originally a Kuranic term meaning the "spoils
of war", was a series of military campaigns by
Saddam Hussein's regime in late 1980s that took the
lives of tens of thousands civilian Kurds.
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