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Fewer weapons means fewer Kurdish women
murdered in Iraqi Kurdistan
5.1.2011
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Minimization of weapons curtails killing of women in
Kurdistan, activist says
January 5, 2011
ERBIL-Hewlêr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — An Iraqi Kurdish woman
activist has said on Wednesday that the minimization
of weapons among citizens have curtailed the killing
of women in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Region,
demanding the Kurdish government KRG to “take
serious measures to minimize the phenomena of
carrying of weapons by men in the Region.”
The confirmation took place, being part of a
symposium held by an organization involved in
defending women’s rights in Iraqi Kurdistan,
carrying the name of “WARFIN,” on Tuesday, about
carrying of weapons in the Region,www.ekurd.netattended
by representatives Kurdistan’s Interior Ministry,
its Peshmerga (Kurdish guards), the High Judiciary
Council and the Social Community organizations in
the Region.
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Minimization of weapons curtails killing of women in
Kurdistan, activist says. Photo: Aswat al-Iraq. |
“The symposium has
called for limiting the phenomena of weapons
spreading among Kurdistan citizens, pointing out
that the Organization had noticed that ‘the majority
of killing of women in Kurdistan had been carried
out by guns, which exceed one million spread in the
Region.”
“The limitation of possession of weapons among
(Kurdistan) citizens shall minimize the killing of
women,” the symposium pointed out, demanding the the
Region’s government to ban “trading with weapons, in
order to share in limiting their spread.”
On his part, the Director of Erbil’s Police,
Brigadier Abdul-Khalilq Talaat, expressed support
for WARFIN Orgnization’s Chairwomen, Linja Abdullah,
telling Aswat al-Iraq: “There is more than one
million weapons in the hands of citizens in
Kurdistan, despite fact that the law prevents
carrying weapons in public places, but not to keep
them inside houses.”
“The Police can’t take measures against those who
keep weapons in their houses, because it can’t
search all houses without judicial orders,”
Brigadier Talaat said, adding that “licenses are
given to officials and merchants, who are afraid of
revenge cases, or those who live in remote areas
that the police can’t reach easily, in case they
face any threats.”
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