Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al Sudani signed a United Nations-reviewed declaration Wednesday to grant the Yazidi community property rights to their homes in Sinjar, northern Iraq, after 47 years of exclusion.
«Due to discriminatory policies, about a quarter of a million Iraqi Yazidi citizens in the Sinjar district of Nineveh governorate have not been allowed to own their homes and residential land since 1975,» the prime minister’s office said in a statement, as quoted by INA news agency.
In this sense, he expressed that these were «unjust exclusion policies» promoted by the «former dictatorial regime», so this decision has been taken «to protect the rights» of the different Iraqi sectors, including those of the «beloved» Yazidi community.
«It was one of the firm convictions of the Iraqi state, it was reviewed and presented in collaboration with UN-Habitat,» he has stressed, adding that «the decree constitutes an official recognition of the ownership of their lands and houses.» «It puts an end to decades of discrimination,» he concluded.
The Islamic State terrorist group in northern Iraq perpetrated in 2014 a massacre against the Sinjar region in northern Iraq, where more than 9,000 members of the Yazidi community were kidnapped and killed.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
