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Ninewa MPs calls for dissolving Kurdistani
Peshmerga troops
8.4.2008
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April
8, 2008
Baghdad, -- Iraqi Arab parliamentarians
representing Ninewa province "northwest of Iraq' on
Monday called on the Iraqi government to force the
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters (Kurdistani official
Forces) return to Iraq’s Kurdistan region or to be
treated as militias, and to take appropriate
measures to dissolve them.
Usama al-Nigifi, lawmaker from the Iraqi National
List, in a conference held by the Ninewa province’s
legislators in Baghdad, called to dissolve all
militias and armed groups formed outside the
security forces in Ninewa, Kirkuk, Salah al-Din, and
Diala as they represent official partial forces in
Kurdistan and within the Kurdish territory.
“In case the government is unable to force the
militias to leave Kurdistan or to dissolve them, it
should then not permit the Kurdistan Democratic
Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)
to take part in the local and general elections
until such time that these orders are implemented,”
he continued.
The Political Council for National Security last
Saturday called on all parties and political
movements in Iraq to dissolve their armed militias,www.ekurd.net
highlighting that a
decision has been taken to prevent any party of
political bloc, which has a militia, from
participating in the local and provincial council
elections, due next October.
On August 15, 2007, nearly 500 Kurdish Yazidi
probably died in a series of coordinated truck
bombings that devastated two northern Iraqi Kurdish
villages near Mosul city. Sinjar's mayor announced earlier that the
bombings' casualties had risen to 500 dead
and 275 wounded, while a curfew was imposed on the
city.
Northwest of Mosul,
is inhabited by Kurdish Yazidis, a religious sect
whose followers are generally situated in northern
Iraq outside autonomous Kurdistan region. Some
350,000 Yazidis live in villages around Mosul, 405
km north of Baghdad.
In the aftermath of the attacks, President of the
Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani urged Peshmerga (Kurdish fighters) and the interior
ministry to intervene to
protect Kurds in the
regions coming under armed attack, accusing regional
countries of standing behind such attacks.
A 340 strong Kurdish
Peshmerga force was sent to northwestern Iraq's district of Sinjar
to restore security and provide protection to the
afflicted Kurdish community.
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