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Two Kurdish journalists among dead after
bomb in Kirkuk
17.7.2007 |
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July
17, 2007
Kirkuk, Kurdistan region border with (Iraq),
-- Two journalists including a Swedish passport
holder of Kurdish origin were
among 85 people killed
on Monday by a massive truck bomb in the northern
Iraqi Kurdish city of Kirkuk, their newspaper said
on Tuesday.
Sports reporter Majeed Mohammed, and
writer/researcher Mustafa Gaimayani were killed when
the blast damaged the offices of the Hawal Media
Institute, its chairman Hashwan Dawoudi said.
Gaimayani had a Swedish passport and his family all
live in that country, but he had moved to Kirkuk
about five months ago to join the institute, Dawoudi
said.
Hawal produces a weekly newspaper from Kirkuk in
Kurdish and a sister newspaper in Arabic called Al-Nabaa.
Reporters Without Borders say at least 194
journalists and media assistants have been killed in
Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led liberation, making it
the most dangerous place in the world to report. The
vast majority of the deaths have been Iraqi.
Reuters
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Kirkuk city is a Kurdistani city and it lies just
south border of the Kurdistan autonomous region and
it is not under the full control of Kurdistan
Regional Government administration, its population
is a mix of majority Kurds and minority of Arabs,
Turkmen.
The former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein forced
over 250,000 Kurdish residents to give up their
homes to Arabs in the 1970s, to "Arabize" the city
and the region's oil industry.
Based on Iraq's Constitution a referendum is to be
held in late 2007 to decide whether the oil-rich
Kurdish province should be annexed to the safe
semiautonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq's north.
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