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Kurdistan's armed forces "Peshmarga" is
a security-provider in Mosul
29.6.2009
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June
29, 2009
MOSUL, Nineveh, Northwest Iraq,— A
spokesman of the Nineveh Brotherhood list, Darman
Khatari said Sunday that the territories where
Kurdish armed forces (Peshmarga) have been deployed
since 2003 are safe and stable, and that Peshmarga
forces can provide security and protection to
central Mosul if they were asked to.
"Central Mosul and some other areas have become a
safe haven for terrorists, due to terrorist
infiltration into the police and security services
there," Khatari stated,www.ekurd.net
before adding that "the
proof of this claim is the assassination attempt on
the head of the court and integrity judge by
elements wearing police uniforms."
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Kurdistan's armed forces, Peshmarga |
These statements were a
response to demands by the governor of Nineveh
province, Atheel al-Nujeifi and Al-Shabak member
Hanin Kaddo, for Peshmarga forces to leave the
province.
Khatari said that "Al-Nujeifi and Kaddo know very
well that the territories where Kurds live will not
be affected by a US pullback from Iraq,www.ekurd.net
precisely because the
Peshmarga and the Asayish (Kurdish intelligence) are
the security providers in these areas."
"Al-Nujeifi and Kaddo are trying to deflect
attention from their failure to provide security in
Mosul onto Peshmerga forces.”
Regarding the political dispute in the province,
partly ignited by the ruling Hadba list’s decision
to monopolize all the administrative posts in the
province, Khatari underlined the Kurds’ right to
participate in the governance of the province,
especially in the “18” districts which voted for the
Brotherhood list.
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 Kurdish 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.
"We hope that the land now lived on by the Yazidis will join
the Kurdish area," the community's leader, Amir Tahseen Beg, told
the Associated Press in 2007 from his residence in Sheikhan. "This will depend
on the referendum,www.ekurd.net
but our areas must return to the original motherland."
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, 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.
On November 1, 2008, hundreds of Iraq’s Shabak
people took to the streets in Mosul-Ninewa calling for
including them in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, according
to a local official.
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