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Kurdish legislator calls for unifying two
security agencies in Kurdistan
13.7.2007
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July
13, 2007
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- A
Kurdish parliamentarian called for the merger of two
security establishments belonging to the two main
Kurdish parties, the KDP and PUK into one entity,
adding, their current status is "illegal."
"Although the work of these two institutions –
Parasten and Zanyari – is serving the interests of
the Kurdish people, they are 100% partisan and will
never welcome any non-partisan activists," Aries
Abdullah, a member of the Iraqi Kurdistan region's
parliament, said on Friday.
On the legality of Parasten, which belongs to
Kurdistan region president Massoud Barazani, the
head of Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), and
Zanyari, an offshoot of Iraqi President Jalal
Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), in
the eyes of the region's parliament, Abdullah
replied that so far "there is no decision making
either of these two institutions official.""There
was a decision, however, to build a unified national
security agency, which cannot happen except by
merging these agencies into one entity," he said.
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Barham Saleh
published an article a few days ago under the title,
"Warning from Human Rights Watch," in which he urged
the need to have "security agencies in the region
out from under the partisan cloak."
HRW, in a report in Arabic, Kurdish and English on
July 3, accused Kurdish security authorities in the
Iraqi Kurdistan region of torturing detainees in the
prisons of Erbil-Hewler, Duhok and Sulaimaniyah
provinces.
Parasten is in KDP-dominated Erbil and Duhok, while
Zanyari is in PUK-controlled Sulaimaniyah.
VOI
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