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News: The PC participates in the EP International Conference on human rights and religious minorities in Iraq





Ishtar TV.com  / Brussels/Translation: Atour Michael
 On June 30, 2015 at the invitation of a group of the Democratic Socialist parties in the European Parliament, headed by Mr. Joseph Faedon Holtzr member of the European Parliament. The Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council represented by the Messrs Kamel Zumaia, Samir Putros Joda and Adad Zuzu, attended the conference along with the representatives of the Iraqi components of Yazidis, Shabak, Turkmen, Mandaeans and Kaka'is, in addition to Mr. Younadam Kanna secretary of the Assyrian Democratic Movement a representative of our people in the Iraqi Council of Representatives and Father Emmanuel Youkhana director of Kabni Organization for humanitarian aid, as well as many of the activists in the field of human rights and the defense of minority 's rights. The PC delegation made many interventions concerning the conditions of our people and their future in Iraq saying that “Causing suffer for the Christians in Iraq is a systematic process, and what happened on the 10th of June in Mosul, Nineveh Plain and Sinjar is nothing but a result of the inhumane practices they faced before and after the fall of the dictatorial regime in 2003, and to find a way out of this disaster suffered by the minorities, especially our Christian people we elaborate the follow:
 
1. The sectarian quotas and the absence of citizenship in dealing with the Iraqi people.
2. As a result, we are exposed to a policy of deliberate marginalization and exclusion in all areas of public life.
3. The demographic change operations in the Christian areas, especially in the Nineveh Plain are still not solved in the Kurdistan Region despite numerous correspondences in this regard.
4. We claim for an international protection in the Nineveh Plain and Sinjar areas for the Iraqi components as the only guarantee for the returning of people to their homes, after they lost hope and were disappointed for not being protected by anyone.
5. Supporting the establishment of minorities’ councils in coordination with the EU in order to acknowledge the European Parliament and the international community with all the risks the minorities face in Iraq.
6. Activating the role of the Iraqi- European Partnership through periodic review of human rights in Iraq.
7. Activating the ministerial decision on the establishment of a province in the Nineveh Plain.
8. Rehabilitation of the Yazidis, Christians, Shabak Shiites and Turkmen Shiites survivors.
9. Supporting the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government politically and militarily to end the terrorist organizations and the Islamic State of Iraq.
10. Considering what happened to the Christians, Yazidis and Shabak in the Nineveh Plain genocide crimes.
Before the end of the conference the participants were distributed to three workshops, where recaps of the conferees’ demands were presented, and they all centered on the following questions:
 
1 - What are the political solutions for the minorities in Iraq.
2 - How can the EU help minorities?
3 - What are the humanitarian steps required of the EU?
 
It is worth mentioning that Zumaia also presented a written message from the PC to Mr. Holtzr regarding the status and future of the CSA people in Iraq, a special file on demographic change operations on the CSA areas and a definition on Bartella Friends Conference which was held in November 2013, stressing in his speech that the Christians, Yazidis and Shabak have no hope in returning to their homes even after the liberalization without an international protection.
Also Mr. Samir Putros handed Mrs. Anna Komish member of the European Parliament, who chaired one of the workshops, a letter signed by more than forty parties, foundations and organizations of the Yazidis, Shabak, Mandaeans and CSA people.













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