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August 27, 2010 - Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil-Hewler, Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Region 'Iraq'
Kurdistani community in
London demand indicting those involved in 31 August
1996 conflict
London: Members of the Kurdistani community in the
UK have organised an event in front of the Iraqi
Embassy in London to protest against the individuals
and groups who took part in the 31 August 1996
conflict between the PUK and KDP/Iraqi authorities.
On this day the KDP, led by Massuad Barzani, with
the help of Saddam Hussein’s army occupied
Kurdistan’s regional capital, Arbil, and pushed the
PUK, led by Jalal Talabani, forces outside the Iraqi
Kurdistan border, hundreds of people were killed and
many more were displaced, disappeared and wounded,
the fate of many still not known despite having a
strategic agreement between these two forces, PUK
and KDP. The objectives of the protest were outlined
in a communiqué which KurdishMedia.com has received
a copy. The group calling themselves “Chatri Azadi”
or “The Freedom Umbrella”, demand legislating a
special law, presumably by the Kurdistan Parliament,
to bring those who were involved into justices;
compensate those who lost out as the result; and
investigating the fate of those who disappeared. The
group also demand the KRG authorities stop, what
they term as, “attacks on free media and the rights
of citizens of Kurdistan”. One of the organisers of
the event Mr M. Ali told kurdishmedia.com that no
political organisation backs the event, albeit
everyone welcomes to join. We wanted the event to
coincide with its anniversary which is 31 August, he
added. “The perpetrators are still at large and some
enjoy high positions in the KRG authorities,” Mr Ali
elaborated. Where: Embassy of Republic Of Iraq, 3
Elvaston Place, London SW7 5QH nearst tube station:
Gloucester Road When: Tuesday, 31st August 2010 from
12:00 noon to 14:00 pm kurdmedia com
RWE signs regional gas
agreement with Iraqi Kurdistan to help develop
network
RWE Group AG, Germany’s second- largest utility,
signed a cooperation agreement with the Kurdistan
Regional Government to help develop the Iraqi
region’s gas distribution network. The Essen,
Germany-based company will provide assistance with
the region’s gas network as well as training local
citizens, according to a statement on the Kurdistan
government’s website. “This is a major step forward
in our planning,” said Kurdish Prime Minister Barham
Salih. “RWE will bring the know- how and insights of
one of Europe’s most important gas- distribution
companies to Kurdistan.” Gas from the region is
expected to be exported via the Nabucco pipeline to
European consumer markets, the statement said. The
government expects Kurdistan’s gas reserves to be
between 100 trillion and 200 trillion standard cubic
feet, according to the region’s minister of natural
resources, Ashti Hawrami. bloomberg com | krg org
Ammar Al Hakim to meet with
Barzani
Sayyed Ammar Al Hakim arrived to Kurdistan Thursday
night accompanied by a delegation from the Iraqi
National Coalition. Hakim is scheduled to meet with
Kurdistan region President Massoud Barzani and a
number of government officials and that in order to
talk over the formation of the upcoming Iraq
government in addition to the dangerous security
progresses in the country and means to fight against
the same. alsumaria tv
Ex-Kurdistan Parliament
Speaker Calls for Release of Ocalan
Erbil: Following a unilateral ceasefire declared by
the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) early this month,
a formerly prominent Iraqi Kurdish politician, says
that Turkey should release the imprisoned leader of
the PKK, Abdulla Ocalan, if it wishes to find a
solution for its decades long bloody conflict with
the Kurds. “Staying Ocalan like this in the jail is
another crime of the Turkish state,” said Jawher
Namiq Salim, the first speaker of the Kurdistan
Parliament that was established in 1992. “Any
serious attempt to solve the Kurdish question
excluding the PKK and BDP will be doubtful and
failing.” Salim’s comments coincides with a similar
comment made by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip
Erdogan suggesting that the state agencies-the army
and the intelligence- need to be involved in direct
talks with the PKK. “As the government, we have
never held such [with the PKK]. If it is necessary
to have contact with or talk by some means or
another, then the state does it through its
institutions,” said Erdogan on a local TV station,
according to Today’s Zaman, an English-language
daily newspaper in Turkey. Salim also said that it
would be a duty of the Kurdish parties here in Iraq
to help release Ocalan and solve the problem of the
Kurds in Turkey as well. The Iraqi Kurds have
enjoyed a self-rule since 1991...rudaw net
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