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Kirkuk's article 140 committee tells
deportees to get compensation receipts
4.4.2008
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April
4, 2008
Kirkuk, Iraq's border with Kurdistan region,
-- The committee on article 140 in Kirkuk notified
deportees from the oil-rich city to get their
compensation receipts within the fifth batch
delivered by the Kirkuk normalization office, the
committee chairman said.
"The Kirkuk's article 140 implementation has
received the fifth batch of receipts for financial
compensations to the deportees," Babakir Sediq told
VOI.
Kirkuk city is historically a Kurdish city
and it lies just south border of the Kurdistan
autonomous region, the population is a mix of
majority Kurds and minority of Arabs, Christians and
Turkmen. lies 250 km northeast of Baghdad. Kurds
have a strong cultural and emotional attachment to Kirkuk,
which they call "the Kurdish Jerusalem.".
Kurds seek to include the city in the autonomous
Iraq's Kurdistan region, while Sunni Muslims,
Turkmen and Shiites oppose the incorporation. The
article currently stipulates that all Arabs in
Kirkuk be returned to their original locations in
southern and central Iraqi areas, and formerly
displaced residents returned to Kirkuk.
The article also calls for conducting a census to be
followed by a referendum to let the inhabitants
decide whether they would like Kirkuk to be annexed
to the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region or having
it as an independent province.
These stages were supposed to end on December 31,
2007, a deadline that was later extended to six
months.
The former regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
had forced over 250,000 Kurdish residents to give up
their homes to Arabs in the 1970s,www.ekurd.net
to "Arabize" the city
and the region's oil industry.
Copyright, respective author or news agency, VOI
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