Mayor of Sinjar: If the government applied Article 140, the ISIS disaster would not have occurred

14/08/2019

Mayor

Kalkamsh Press / Baghdad

The mayor of Sinjar district, Mahma Khalil, said on Wednesday that if the government had implemented Article 140 of the Constitution at the time, the 2014 disaster would not have occurred, calling for the formation of a joint army and peshmerga force under the supervision of the International Coalitionto Protect Sinjar.

Khalil said in a statement, on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of the tragedy (Al-Jazeera complex) in the Qahtaniya district, which killed more than 400 victims and 500 wounded from the Yazidi component, that “there is an urgent need to provide protection for religious minorities and the reconstruction of their areas, especially in Sinjar, which has been more than once To genocide. ”

He pointed out that "the granting of constitutional rights to the region and the application of Article 140, has become a necessary need," adding: "If the government implemented Article 140 of the Constitution at the time, the disaster in 2014 would not have occurred."

Khalil called for "confining arms to the state in Sinjar district, and employing its people in the security services to be able to protect the judiciary and themselves," calling for the formation of a joint force of the army and the Peshmerga to protect it, and arming and supervision of the international coalition to be a pillar of the safe area, and create a suitable ground for the return of displaced people Eradicate the effects of genocide, and begin to rebuild them. ”
On August 14, 2017, terrorist groups detonated four car bombs targeting the Al-Jazeera compound and caused a massacre of Yazidis.

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