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| Iraq |
| 1.7M Anbar refugees now in Kurdistan |
| 2015-05-26 |
| [Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region -- The total number of Anbar refugees in the Kurdistan region has exceeded 1.7 million, and Anbar officials have called on the Kurdistan Regional Government to open a corridor for another 500,000 refugees fleeing the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... Muhsin Osman, a member of the migration committee of the Iraqi Parliament, told Rudaw on Monday the refugees had been left homeless and that the central government has not allowed the refugees to seek asylum in Baghdad or nearby areas. At the same time, Kurdish MPs in the Iraqi Parliament have urged the KRG not to receive the newly displaced Anbar families. "Has Baghdad not thought about how the Kurdistan Regional Government can supply their needs?" Osman said. Osman added he believes the burden of these new refugees on the Kurdistan region will worsen the region's economic crisis. "It is better the Iraqi government open new camps for the latest Anbar refugees in Baghdad," he said. Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... Masoud Haider, an Iraqi Kurdish MP of the Gorran Movement, told Rudaw on Monday, "The Anbar representatives in the Iraqi Parliament have been attempting to convince the Iraqi Parliament and through them the Iraqi government to transfer some 500,000 Anbar refugees to the Kurdistan refugee camps in Erbil, Sulaimani and Duhok, but we are against such an attempt." "In order to provide their basic necessities, we would need more than $1.4 billion dollars and the KRG does not have this huge amount of money," he added. He continued by saying the KRG does not have enough money to provide even the monthly salaries of its employees and civil servants. On Sunday, Anbar province Governor Suhaib Ismail officially called on Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to open a safe corridor to transfer Anbar refugees to the Kurdistan region, the Al-Mada Iraqi newspaper reported. Ismail reportedly called on Abadi to transfer the refugees through the Baghdad airport to the Kurdish cities of Erbil and Sulaimani. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Months ago I did read that the Iraq central government was still paying salaries of its employees - in IS-occupied Mosul. Made no sense at all, unless the central government is a Potemkin village of sorts. FTA: "the central government has not allowed the refugees to seek asylum in Baghdad or nearby areas." That is THE issue - why isn't that the headline and topic of this article? Even the news currently being reported out of the former Iraq makes no sense. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-05-26 13:37 |
| #3 The Kurds have been noting how the Iraqi "national" govt is doing nothing for these reguees and sending them to Kurdistan. They are also refusing to pay the Kurds their back salaries. I would happily pass them on to Turkey and let them deal with them. |
| Posted by: frozen al 2015-05-26 13:15 |
| #2 Sunni refugess = Shia apathy. The "Iraqi" government is now simply the Shia government. Iraq has fractured without the US troops to hold it together. We should have simply divided it peacefully when we had the chance. Bush and Obama both f'd up the opportunity. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-05-26 11:37 |
| #1 That's a big increase in population. They might be needing some lebensraum. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-05-26 07:48 |