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Sit-in protesters want more Kurdish Peshmerga forces in disputed Diyala areas



KHANAQIN, — Activists staged a sit-in outside the office of Garmiyan's deputy mayor's to pressure the government to send more Kurdish Peshmerga forces to disputed areas.

The Committee for Defending the Public Interest in Khanaqin, made up of older activists and intellectuals, held the two-day strike almost a week after 3 people died and 21 were injured during attacks against Kurds in Jalawla.

Ami Ali, from the group, said the strike is to press the Kurdistan Regional Government to send more forces to the disputed areas of Diyala to protect the lives of Kurdish people, who are frequently targeted by bombings.

"We have asked for Peshmarga repeatedly but sadly our demand has not been met," he added. "That's why Kurds in the disputed areas face killing and displacement."

The deputy for the Ministry of Interior, Anwar Othman, has voiced his support for sending more troops, however the government has not yet made a decision.

The Iraqi and the Kurdistan regional governments have agreed to send a joint force of the Iraqi army and Peshmarga to secure areas which are still in dispute by the two sides.

This include areas in Diyala, Nineveh, Salahaddin and Kirkuk - which were all struck by bombings last Thursday.

Jalil Ibrahim, a Kurdish member of Diyala Provincial Council, said he backed the strikers.

"The strikers' cause is right and we also demand the presidency and the regional government of Kurdistan send Peshmarga to these areas," he said.

Diyala province, a restive part of Iraq outside the Kurdish autonomous region of Kurdistan but home to many Kurds. The Diyala district, which includes a string of villages and some of Iraq's oil reserves, is home to about 175,000 Kurds, most of them Shiites.

In June 2006, the local council of Khanaqin proposed that the district be integrated into the autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq.

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.

Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution is related to the normalization of the situation in Kirkuk city and other disputed areas like Khanaqin.

Kurdistan's government says oil-rich Khanaqin should be part of its semi-autonomous region, which it hopes to expand in a referendum in the future. In the meantime,www.ekurd.net Khanaqin and other so-called disputed areas remain targets of Sunni Arab insurgents opposed to Kurdish expansion and vowing to hold onto land seized during ex-dictator Saddam Hussein's efforts to "Arabize" the region.

AK news part of this report by Bryar Mohammed

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[Cewlik]

I think it is time to focus ourselves on the Russians, Chinese, Romanians, so actually the (ex)-communists.

Stupid idea, because this states have no power in the region. You see it at Assad and Gaddafi how powerfull the US is and how weak Russia and China is. It will be fatal for Kurds to end their relations with the USA, Iraq and Turkey will use this to atack Kurdistan, and Russia and China will do nothing against that.

Yes America dont care about Kurds, we all know that, America dont care about anybody. But if you can be a good ally to the USA, they will support you, like they do it now with South Kurdistan. Yes Turkey and Iraq is a bigger partner for them, but what can we do against that? Kurds are a minority.

Yes we can build Relations with Russia and China, but without ending the Relations with the USA, because they are the biggest player in the middel east. Without their recognition Kurdistan can never be a indipendent state.

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We can't afford to cut ties with US but we can on the same time have better relations with the Chinese especially and the Russian simply the will be willing to arm our Peshmerga

[brendar]

Arabs are kissing US hands just to appreciate them and some guys says we should cut our relation with US hahahhahahahah. You must be joking mate.

Without US, where does the world get ideas? maybe from Qandahar .

US
Russia
China

We need all three together because these are the SUPER POWERS, we have not a choice. Our best friends should be these 3 plus britain and france. The reason is because without these guys you will not even be allowed to sit on a chair to ask for UN membership.

[Rando]

i think its a IAI KFIR. they are israeli made aircraft. (a modified Mirage 5)
why?

[Azad1]

This is the Iraqi army academy in Sulymania. These soldiers are NOT pesh. There are four military schools in Iraq. Two of them are in Dohuk and suliamani.

This is the third military school in Iraq (suliymani), it even says on the flag.

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This is the Iraqi army academy in Sulymania. These soldiers are not pesh. There are four military schools in Iraq. Two of them are in Dohuk and suliamani.

they are kurds and are part of the regional guards which is Peshemrga .