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Kurdistan intelligence chief: Iraqi Kurds
had been able to occupy Kirkuk, but they refused
such act
14.7.2011 |
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July
14, 2011
ERBIL-Hewlęr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — The director of Kurdistan
Security Agency in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan
Region in Iraq's north, Masrour Barzani, has said on
Thursday the Kurds had been able to occupy the
oil-rich city of Kirkuk, but they resented that,
because they refused to repeat an act for which
“they themselves had been victims of.”
“The Kurds could have occupied Kirkuk, but they
refused such act, because they themselves had been
victims of such act, as we did not want to give the
impression that such measure would be considered as
a revenge by the Kurds, due to what they had
suffered for long years,” Masrour Barzani told al-Sharq
al-Awsat newspaper on Thursday.
He said that the Kurdish Leadership “tried to
restore its rights in a peaceful democratic mans and
through the Constitution, for which we are still
waiting to achieve this peaceful means.”
“On our part, we have expressed enough flexibility
towards the Turkomen and the Arabs; and time has
come for them to express such flexibility that could
achieve an agreement to implement the Constitution’s
Article related to the fate of Kirkuk,” he added.
The Kurdish official said in conclusion that
Kurdistan President, Massoud Barzani, has
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Head of Kurdistan region's security apparatus
Masrour Barzani. |
decided recently to supply Kirkuk with 200 megawatts
of electric power, thing that we consider as a
commitment by the Kurdish Leadership to serve the
residents of Kirkuk Province,www.ekurd.netdespite
fact that such matter is the responsibility of the
Federal government in Baghdad.
The oil-rich province of Kirkuk is one of the most disputed areas by the
regional government and the Iraqi government in Baghdad.
The Kurds are seeking to integrate the province into the semi-autonomous
Kurdistan Region clamming it to be historically a Kurdish city, it lies just
south border of the Kurdistan autonomous region, the population is a mix of
majority Kurds and minority of Arabs, Christians and Turkmen, lies 250 km
northeast of Baghdad.
Kurds have a strong cultural and emotional
attachment to Kirkuk, which they call "the Kurdish
Jerusalem." Kurds see it as the rightful and
perfect capital of an autonomous Kurdistan state.
Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution is related to
the normalization of the situation in Kirkuk city
and other disputed areas through having back its
Kurdish inhabitants and repatriating the Arabs
relocated in the city during the former regime’s
time to their original provinces in central and
southern Iraq.
The article also calls for conducting a census to be
followed by a referendum to let the inhabitants
decide whether they would like Kirkuk to be annexed
to the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region or having
it as an independent province.
The former regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
had forced over 250,000 Kurdish residents to give up
their homes to Arabs in the 1970s, to "Arabize" the
city and the region's oil industry.
The last ethnic-breakdown census in Iraq was
conducted in 1957, well before Saddam began his
program to move Arabs to Kirkuk. That count showed
178,000 Kurds, 48,000 Turkomen, 43,000 Arabs and
10,000 Assyrian-Chaldean Christians living in the
city.
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