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Kurdistan Region-Iraq News in brief
15.11.2006
Update 1
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Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil, Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Region (Iraq),
November 15,
2006
A survey of Anfal victims set to begin
The survey will begin soon in various areas of the
Kurdistan region. Forms will be distributed.
The Minister of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs in the KRG,
Chinar Saad Abdullah, announced a survey that will
be taken on the number of victims of the Anfal
campaign and their relatives in the Kurdistan
region.
"We desire to get the real number of victims and
relatives of Anfal campaign through this survey,"
Minister Abdulah told the Hawlati Web site. The
survey will begin soon in various areas of the
Kurdistan region. Forms will be distributed.
"We need to obtain true numbers of women, both
educated and uneducated, widows, and children who
were victims of Anfal through the form," said
Abdualah. According to available statistics, there
are nearly 130,000 Anfal victims and relatives
presently living in the Kurdistan region.
South Koreans contribute to Kurdish parliament
A ceremony attended by many high-level Kurdish and
South Korean diplomats honored the South Korean
government's donation of 30 cars and 10 buses to the
Kurdistan Assembly.
In the ceremony, the Secretary of the Kurdish
parliament, Fersat Ahmad, gave his thanks to the
South Korean government, the Zaiton forces, and the
Kobka organization, for creating good will between
Kurdistan and South Korea.
Dr. Fuad Hussain, Chief of Staff of Kurdistan
president Massoud Barzani, talked about jobs and
activities that have been provided for the Zaiton
forces, and explained that it has had a positive
impact on the rebuilding of Kurdistan. He expressed
his hope that the relationship between the two
regions continue to advance, particularly in the
maintenance and economical construction of
Kurdistan.
Doctors from the rest of Iraq flee to Kurdistan
Dr. Sherko Abdullah, the head of the health
department in Sulaimaniya city, announced on Sunday
that 150 doctors from southern and middle Iraq have
fled to Kurdistan since the beginning of the Iraq
war.
Dr. Abdullah said to the independent news agency,
Iraqi Voice, "Nearly 150 Arab doctors came to
Sulymania. We are paying their rent, and we are also
opening clinics for them as well finding them work
in hospitals." Dr. Abdullah said that the reason the
doctors are coming to Kurdistan is due to the lack
of safety in their own regions.
Dr. Ali Saeid, the head of Sulymania University,
announced that nearly 131 university lecturers from
the south and middle of Iraq have come to the
university because of the war.
According to statistics kept by the KRG Ministry of
Human Rights and the United Nations, nearly 50,000
people from southern and middle Iraq have fled to
Sulymania.
Soran College to open law department
Soran Education College's law department had decided
to hold evening law courses.
Soran Education College's law department had decided
to hold evening law courses, resulting in great
interest from students who rushed to fill out the
proper forms to be accepted. Instead, the law
department will hold morning courses.
A source from Soran Education College told the Globe
that "the decision for opening the law department in
the morning has been made by the leaders of
Salahadin University. Special forms will be handed
out for offering places in this department, and
right now we are setting policy and special
requirements for those places."
Added the source, "We are trying to open the evening
law department in this college too, but the decision
has not
been made yet."
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