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Kurdistan Region-Iraq News in brief
2.4.2008
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April
2, 2008 - Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil-Hewler, Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Region 'Iraq'
Sulaimaniyah… Starting Reconciliation Program of
Iraq’s Northern Provinces
Under the patronage of the United States of America,
the program of Reconciliation and peaceful
coexistence of Iraq’s northern Provinces started
Wednesday in the hall of Civil Development
Organization in Sulaimaniyah City. The Program’s
media coordinator Mrs. Zainab Khdaysh stated to
PUKmedia:” this humanitarian program which is
attended by the representatives of (Kirkuk, Mosel,
Saladin and Dyala), includes many projects .It lasts
for 15 days. Many issues as the religion tolerance,
democracy and human rights and other crucial issues
will be discussed. More than 25 of Non Governmental
Organizations (NGOs) will participate in the
program, Khdaysh added.
Chamchamal District People Request to Join Kirkuk
Province
In a memo sent to Kirkuk Province, Chamchamal’s
people requested to bring back their district into
the administrational borders of Kirkuk Province and
compensate them according to Article 140 of the
Iraqi constitution. The memo said “Chamchamal
District was integrated in Kirkuk Province, but it
was cut from it due to the former Baathists regime
similar to other districts and sub-districts. Now,
all these areas were included with the compensation
except Chamchamal District.” Chamchamal District
people requested in their memo to raise their voice
to the Iraqi government to make their district be
part of Kirkuk Province again and compensate them
according to Article 140.
Kurdistan Parliamentary Faction and Kurdish
Officials hold meeting in Baghdad
During the meeting between Kurdistan Parliamentary
Faction and Kurdish Officials in Baghdad, Dr. Barham
Salih emphasized the necessity of consolidating the
relations and collaboration between Kurdistan
Parliamentary Faction and the Kurdish Officials in
the federal government on one hand and the KRG on
the other hand. They also discussed the recent
situation in Iraq and Kurdistan Region and the steps
of implementing Article 140 of the Constitution and
the latest security and military developments in
Basra and other parts of Iraq. Salih stressed the
necessity of accelerating the maintenance process of
the damaged bridges and areas due to the Turkish
Artillery Strikes in the border areas in Kurdistan
Region. On the other hand, they evaluated the
activities of the KRG Representation in Baghdad and
discussed the obstacles which hinder its work. They
also emphasized the necessity of more coordination
between the officials in Kurdistan Region and those
who are in Baghdad in order to solve the unresolved
issues.
Two Convicts Sentenced to Death in Erbil
On Tuesday the two convicts, who confessed involving
in the terrorist explosion outside a Kurdistan
Democratic Party (KDP) office in Erbil on May 4th,
2005 and several other crimes, were sentenced to
death. Their death penalties were carried out by
hanging in a prison known as Muhata Prison in Erbil.
The explosion, which the two criminals planned,
killed 48 people and injured 70 others. The KRG
Human Rights Minister, Shwan Muhammad, said that in
principle they are against death penalty in the
Kurdistan region as it is against the human rights
principles. As the minister said, they have been
trying with the Kurdistan Regional Parliament and
its Human Rights Committee to abolish the death
penalty, but the parliament has up to now been
against abolishing it in the region. He further said
that one of other human rights principles is
implementing the law, and the parliament approved
the death penalty though.
KRG Aids Vulnerable Children in Shangal
The KRG Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs
continues to offer a monthly payment to the children
within the Shangal district, Mosel province.
“Due to the bad security situations and those
terrorist attacks hit Shangal, many children left
unsupervised there, so the Kurdistan regional
government decided to monthly pay 30 thousand ID to
each child in Shangal district as of last October,”
the deputy director of the ministry for labour and
social affairs, Mushir Rashid told PUKmedia. Today
the delegation from the ministry distributed
payments of last November, December, January, and
February over 254 children there, and it is expected
to pay them for March and April as well soon. The
ministry is also expected to open a social center in
Shangal district to address social problems there.
Bids to Implement Article 140 Continue
The Sargaran sub district follow-up office for
implementing article 140 announced that they
completed and sent 4250 compensation forms to the
Kirkuk Audit Commission. “we have completed and sent
all compensation forms of the Sargaran refugees to
the Kirkuk Governorate, while only six of them were
approved to get compensation cheque due to some
problems within our sub district,” the head of the
office, Luqman Hessian told PUKmedia. As luqman
said, the Head of Article 140 Commission in Kirkuk
promised them to approve large numbers of those
forms to get compensation cheques in the coming
days.
Al-Mufti Calls to Define Anfal Crimes and
Chemical Attack as Genocide
The Speaker of Kurdistan Parliament Adnan al-Mufti,
received Mrs. Chnar Saad Abdullah the Minister of
Martyrs and Victims of Anfal. Dr. Kamal Kirkuki also
attended the meeting. They talked about the efforts
of The Ministry of Martyrs and Victims of Anfal to
define Anfal Crimes and the use of chemical weapon
as Genocide. Al-Mufti asked Mrs. Chnar to coordinate
with the legal committee in Kurdistan Parliament to
draft a law defining these crimes as Genocide in
order to discuss and pass it. On the other hand,
they exchanged views to issue a law in the Iraqi
Parliament to compensate the families of the Anfal
and Chemical Attack Victims. Concerning this Mrs.
Chnar said:” The Ministry of Martyrs and Victims of
Anfal formed a special committee to gather
information and make statistics on damages which
took place due to the use of chemical weapons”, She
also pointed out to her participation in the
Conference define the Anfal crimes and the Use of
Chemical weapon as Genocide.
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