Kurds flee Kanaqeen fear of Arab and Islamic groups
- KurdishMedia.com - By Mohammed Ali
- 25/02/2008 00:00:00
London (KurdishMedia.com) 25 February 2008: Kurdish people are fleeing areas controlled by the Iraqi government fear of insurgent groups, Hawlati reported Sunday.
Due to threats from insurgent groups, majority of Kurdish families have fled the villages of the town of al-Saadyya in the Kurdish province district of Khanaqeen. 120 families out of 170 have fled three villages of al-Saadyya and only one village is inhabited, the other two are deserted. If the Kurdistan administration did not send Peshmerga forces to protect the inhabitance, this last inhabited village would have been deserted too.
A local authority source confirmed that “the last two years had been difficult for Kurdish residents of al-Saadyya. That is why the majority of them fled”.
It was also revealed the governor of al-Saadyya had a hand in killing the Kurdish people.
It is also stated that in the last two years, 130 Kurds were killed in the town by insurgent groups. The Kurds are targeted because of their identities.
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- KurdishMedia.com - By Mohammed Ali
- 25/02/2008 00:00:00