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Demo in Mosul against Kurdish forces, Peshmerga
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September 30, 2009
MOSUL,
Northwest Iraq, — Scores of Mosul
residents participated on Wednesday in a peaceful
demonstration in the city to express their rejection
to the presence of Peshmerga forces (Kurdish armed
forces) in Ninewa province.
According to Aswat al-Iraq “More than 150
demonstrators marched near the local authority’s
building at al-Jumhoriya St. in central Mosul,”.
He said that the demonstrators condemned the move
made by U.S. forces to honor Peshmerga forces who
have been in-service at the Mosul dam since five
years.
This demonstration is considered the second of its
type after the one staged last Monday (Sept. 28,
2009).
Kurds living near by Mosul are under continuous
attacks by Insurgents.
Kurdish Yazidis have been frequent targets of Sunni
attacks.
On September 10, 2009,
a
suicide truck bomber triggered a massive blast in
a Kurdish village of Wardak, southeast
of the restive city of Mosul in northern Iraq
flattening homes and killing at least 20 Kurdish
Yazidis.
On August 13, 2009
a double suicide bombing attack rocked a café in
Kurdish town of Sinjar,
southeast of Mosul, killing 23
and wounding 30 others.
On
August 14, 2007
Four massive truck bombs killed at least
500 Kurds in two Kurdish villages of Qahataniya in a
Kurdish-speaking area near the Syrian border in the
province of Nineveh.
On
April 23, 2007 A 23 Yazidis were slain by gunmen
who apparently targeted them among passengers on a
bus in northern Iraq near Mosul.
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
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,www.ekurd.netincluding 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.
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.
The autonomous region of Kurdistan wants to expand
its territory to include the disputed oil-rich city
of Kirkuk as well as Kurdish villages in Nineveh, a change the central Baghdad government
resolutely opposes.
Article 140 of the Iraqi
constitution states that there will be a referendum
in the areas bordering the Kurdistan autonomous
region.
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