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Kurdistan's Peshmarga, Iraqi Defense
Ministries sign agreement
6.8.2012 |
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Jabar Yawar The general secretary of the Ministry of
Peshmarga [Kurdistan's National Forces] in the
Kurdistan Region.
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August 6, 2012
ERBIL-Hewlęr, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — The
general secretary of the Ministry of Peshmarga
[Kurdistan National Forces] in the Kurdistan Region
announced that the Ministry of Peshmarga and Iraq's
Defense Ministry signed a seven-point agreement to
solve the current crisis of moving troops to border
areas.
Jabar Yawar in a press conference in Erbil said:
"Lieutenant General Sherwan and I attended a meeting
along with the commander of armed forces of the
Ministry of Defense and the commander of the Iraqi
Police in Baghdad on Saturday."
After three hours of dialogue about moving Iraqi
troops to border areas such as Zumar and Khapour we
reached an agreement, added Yawar.
The Iraqi government moved an army force consisting
of two brigades of 37 and 38 to Zumar and Khapour
areas on July 27 using protection of the area as the
reason. Peshmarga forces
halted the army
from moving forward.
Yawar stressed: "The agreement is that Iraqi and
Peshmarga forces that are in the area must turn
their face against each other to the Syrian borders
to protect Iraqi soil.
"All the extra troops that came to the area because
of this crisis will return to their place and after
ending the Syrian uprising all the forces should go
back to their place."
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, 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.
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,www.ekurd.net
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.
By Fryad Mohammed-Aknews and Ekurd.net
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