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Kurdistan Government agrees to provide
services to families of Anfal victims
16.5.2007
By Abdul Hamid Zebari
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May
16, 2007
Erbil, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- The
government of Iraq's Kurdistan region agreed on
Wednesday to provide services to Anfal families and
chemical weapons victims in Halabja and Karmiyan in
Sulaimaniyah, a Kurdish lawmaker said.
"Following the report we presented in a special
session on Anfal victims on April 14, the Kurdistan
government sent its agreement to the parliament to
provide the families with services," Areez Abdullah
said in a press conference held at the parliament.
"The government agreed also to raise the salaries of
those families to cope with the current economic
situation and to build 200 residential units in the
most devastated regions, as well as to establish
infirmaries in Halabja and Karmiyan," he added.
The legislator pointed out that the government will
also set up a number of cultural, social, research
and psychotherapy centers.
Anfal was an anti-Kurdish campaign led by the former
regime between 1986 and 1989 and involved a series
of military campaigns against the Kurdish peshmerga
fighters, as well as the mostly Kurdish civilian
population of southern Kurdistan.
Independent sources estimate there were 50,000 to
more than 100,000 deaths in the campaign, in which
chemical weapons were used, while Kurds claim over
182,000 people were killed.
VOI
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