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Seven Iraqi police, Kurdish intelligence
member killed
near Iraq's Mosul
29.6.2009
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June
29, 2009
MOSUL, Northwest Iraq,— Seven Iraqi
police and a Kurdish soldier were killed on Monday
as they tried to tackle two separate bomb attacks
near the main northern city of Mosul, a police
official said.
In the Christian village of Hadaniyeh, 30 kilometres
(20 miles) east of the city,www.ekurd.net
five police and a member
of the Asayish Kurdish auxiliary force were killed
as they attempted to defuse a vehicle bomb in a car
park.
On the Hammam al-Alil bridge 15 kilometres (10
miles) south of Mosul, two policemen were killed and
two wounded as they tried to defuse a bomb placed on
the bridge.
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The deaths came the day
before Iraqi security forces were due to take sole
responsibility in all the country's urban areas with
the withdrawal of US troops from city streets.
Mosul, capital city of Ninewa province in Iraq, near
the border with Kurdistan region, lies 405 km north
of Baghdad. The Yazidis are primarily ethnic Kurds located near Mosul.
A Kurdish Yazidis are primarily ethnic Kurds located
near Mosul. Some 350,000 Kurdish Yazidis live
in villages around Mosul near Kurdistan autonomous region border.
Kurdish Yazidis look to
Kurdistan region, the Kurdish Yazidis
are concentrated in key areas for the referendum,
including lands coveted by the Kurds north of Mosul
and around Sinjar on the Syrian border. The Kurds
see the referendum as a chance to right Saddam
Hussein's historic wrongs of forced population
transfer and Arabization. The Arabs see it as a
Kurdish land grab.
"We hope that the land now lived on by the Yazidis will join
the Kurdish area," the community's leader, Amir Tahseen Beg, told
the Associated Press in 2007 from his residence in Sheikhan. "This will depend
on the referendum,www.ekurd.net
but our areas must return to the original motherland."
Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution states that
there will be a referendum in the areas bordering the Kurdistan autonomous
region, including the northern oil city of Kirkuk, so that people can choose
whether to be ruled by the central government or the Kurds.
The Yazidis are a dominant group in the northwest
region, a historically oppressed people who speak Kurdish and are ethnically
Kurd but follow their own religion. In fact, they are reputed to be devil
worshippers, not just by Iraqi Muslims but they’ve been characterized that way
by Western scholars over the years.
On November 1, 2008, hundreds of Iraq’s Shabak
people took to the streets in Mosul-Ninewa calling for
including them in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, according
to a local official.
Copyright, respective author or news agency, AFP | Agencies
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