The Prime Minister, Muhammad Al-Sudani, affirmed the government’s determination to activate the Yazidi Survivors Law.
In his speech on the occasion of the ninth anniversary of the crime of genocide of the Yazidis at the hands of the terrorist gangs of ISIS, Al-Sudani referred to the government’s measures to redress the Iraqi Yazidi citizens, including activating the Yazidi Survivors Law and addressing the ownership of their lands, which has been suspended for 48 years, and directing to facilitate the disbursement of compensation for those affected, encouraging the displaced to return to their areas and creating humanitarian conditions to them.
He said: “The Iraqis faced terrorism that killed innocent lives from them, and Iraqi components, including the original Yezidis, were subjected to brutal attacks, and they sacrificed more than 5 thousand martyrs, and thousands of orphans and missing persons.”
He added, “On these days, nine years ago, terrorism invaded the areas near Sinjar, and the safe villages in Kojo and its vicinity, and committed atrocities.”
He continued: “The ISIS started planting mass graves, following in the footsteps of the grave dictatorial regime.”
He said that all Iraqis rose up when harm affected their Yazidi brothers, and the rest of the components that faced terrorism.
He pointed out that we have worked, since the first day the government assumed its duties, to activate the Yazidi Survivors Law.
He stressed that every crime and assault against a free Iraqi Yazidi woman is a cry to the conscience of humanity, and a condemnation of all those who supported terrorism, in word, deed or service.
He pointed out that countries and deviant parties were involved in this treacherous crime, and they wanted bad for Iraq, but they were disappointed.
He stressed that your brothers in the armed forces of all kinds are still confronting terrorists and chasing them wherever they are found or hiding.
He pointed out that the government has ended the problem of owning residential land and houses for Yazidi residents, after it had neglected this issue since 1975.
He continued: We encouraged the displaced to return to their homes, and created humanitarian conditions for them.
He stressed that the service and engineering effort and social research teams moved to provide services to them in their regions.
He continued: Work is still underway to open the mass graves, and to search for the disappeared and forcibly disappeared.
He said: The security and specialized services are still tracking down every absentee or missing person, and are working to free every kidnapped person.
He added that the Sinjar and Nineveh Plain Reconstruction Fund was included in the three-year budget, and directives were directed to facilitate the procedures for disbursing compensation for those affected by the families of the martyrs and the wounded, and compensating for property.
He said: Kojo will return brightly in an integrated project to build the village with all its civil services.
He explained that the Council of Ministers approved the adoption of the first Wednesday of April as an official holiday for the Yazidis, in support of the rich cultural presence, which adds to our vast Iraqi culture.
He added that what the government is offering in this regard is neither a favor nor an honor, but rather an affirmation of the right and a fulfillment of the duty, and the establishment of the rules of equality and relief for the oppressed.
He pointed out that there are those who deliberately offend religions and Holy Books, thinking that the path is easy to stir up strife, and they are suspicious of their purposes and goals, and those who stand behind them.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency