24-11-2009
Erbil - Joe Stork, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa division, says the recent HRW report about the bad treatment of minorities, is not written out of ‘enmity against the Kurdish people’.
Joe Stork told Rudaw that officials of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have promised an investigation to the alleged abuses. “The Kurdish security forces carry out violence against persons that do not follow the Kurdish agenda.”
According to Stork the Kurdish government doesn’t prosecute officials involved in human rights abuses. “If Kurdish officials want to show they do not mistreat the Shabak and Yezidi’s [Kurdish religious minorities], they should start with prosecuting representatives of the Asayish.”
In the recent HRW report named On vulnerable ground: violence against minority communities in Nineveh province's disputed territories, the Kurdish government is blamed for human rights abuses in the disputed regions of Nineveh.
KRG representative to the USA, Qubad Talabani, wrote a letter to the New York Times, denying the alleged abuses. “If the minorities in Nineveh were being systematically intimidated by the Kurds,.netwhy would so many seek shelter in land administered by the Kurdistan Regional Government? The Kurdish intelligence chief Masrour Barzani told Rudaw that the HRW should carry out more neutral research. (Photo: HRW).
© Rudaw
Human Rights Watch: We are not against KurdsErbil - Joe Stork, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa division, says the recent HRW report about the bad treatment of minorities, is not written out of ‘enmity against the Kurdish people’.
Joe Stork told Rudaw that officials of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have promised an investigation to the alleged abuses. “The Kurdish security forces carry out violence against persons that do not follow the Kurdish agenda.”
According to Stork the Kurdish government doesn’t prosecute officials involved in human rights abuses. “If Kurdish officials want to show they do not mistreat the Shabak and Yezidi’s [Kurdish religious minorities], they should start with prosecuting representatives of the Asayish.”
In the recent HRW report named On vulnerable ground: violence against minority communities in Nineveh province's disputed territories, the Kurdish government is blamed for human rights abuses in the disputed regions of Nineveh.
KRG representative to the USA, Qubad Talabani, wrote a letter to the New York Times, denying the alleged abuses. “If the minorities in Nineveh were being systematically intimidated by the Kurds,.netwhy would so many seek shelter in land administered by the Kurdistan Regional Government? The Kurdish intelligence chief Masrour Barzani told Rudaw that the HRW should carry out more neutral research. (Photo: HRW).
© Rudaw
