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Kurdish parties to flee offices in Diyala
20.9.2008
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September 20, 2008
DIYALA, — Kurdish partisan figure in Jalawla
on Saturday said that Kurdish parties agreed to flee
governmental buildings that they use as offices,
without specifying an exact date for this
evacuation.
"Kurdish parties in Jalawla, al-Saadiya, Khanaqin,
and Qara tapa agreed to evacuate the governmental
buildings that they use as offices," Sarchl Adnan,www.ekurd.net
head of the Jalawla
branch of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK –
President Jalal Talabani's party) told VOI.
"During last month, Iraqi army and police, in
addition to the districts' mayors,www.ekurd.net
sent us memos that we
should flee our offices," he said.
"We will abide by our leadership's orders and will
evacuate the governmental buildings that we use as
offices," he added.
"During the coming days, we will move to other not
governmental buildings," he explained.
"We don't mind implementing the law, especially that
it includes all political parties, with any
discrimination on sect or race bases," he proceeded.
Khanaqin, northeast of Baquba in the central
province of Diyala, is a flashpoint district subject
to frequent attacks by insurgents.
The Diyala district, which includes a string of villages
and some of Iraq's oil reserves, is home to about
175,000 people, most of them Kurdish Shiites.
During the Arabisation policy of Saddam Hussein in
the 1980s, a large number of Kurdish Shiites were
displaced by force from Khanaqin. They started
returning after the fall of Saddam in 2003.
In June 2006, the local council of Khanaqin proposed
that the district be integrated into the autonomous
Kurdistan region in northern Iraq.
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