Talk:Human rights in Kurdistan Region

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This section was deleted, because it's from 1995. Iraqi Kurdistan in 1995 is not same as Iraqi Kurdistan after 2003. Constitution, name, system, political framework and everything else changed. '' In Iraqi Kurdistan, according to Amnesty international the "prime responsibility for human rights abuses lies with the two parties holding the reins of power in Iraqi Kurdistan - the KDP and PUK". Amnesty reported that Francis Yusuf Shabo, an Assyrian Christian and politician, who was also responsible for dealing with complaints by Assyrian Christians about disputed villages was shot dead on 31 May 1993 in Duhok and no one was brought to Justice. Lazar Mikho Hanna (known as Abu Nasir), an Assyrian Christian and politician was shot dead on 14 June 1993  in Duhok. Amnesty criticized the impunity given to Kurdish armed forces due to which assailants have not been brought to justice, and "the active undermining of the judiciary and the lack of respect for its independence by the political parties". Amnesty also reported that Kurdish forces "arrested people arbitrarily" and in some cases tortured detainees, killed civilians. and that assailants were not brought to justice. '' Ferakp (talk) 17:49, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Article has been destroyed again
Thanks to trolls, the article has been full of cherry picking and unreliable sources. Going to add tags. Ferakp (talk) 17:53, 10 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Please give examples of what is cherry picking. Without giving examples of where exactly there is a problem it is not possible to improve.


 * And AINA is not unreliable, see here:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_216#AINA_.28Assyrian_International_News_Agency.29

Please can you comment on the deletions of women's rights section (because he claims women's rights are not human rights) and of HRW and UNHCR reports by user Ferakp. In particular he claims womens rights are not human rights, but they are, and should at least be summarized in a human rights article (with links to other articles).

NPOV Edits
Dear user 87.189.138.210, you have added a lot of information, using cherry picking, not following rules of NPOV, writing hostile and falsified information, using not reliable sources like AINA and misinterpreting sources. I was thinking to add NPOV tag to the article but there are problems with almost all of your edits, which indicates that you didn't write this for good purposes.

I neutralize and changed some of your edits, but I had to delete most of them(below). You are free to add them by following WP rules, such ans NPOV, reliability, avoiding cherry picking and not misinterpreting sources. I can help you if you need help, we can together improve the article. - REMOVED SECTIONS Kurdish special forces have also been criticized by the UNHCR for acts of violence committed in areas under their control against political opponents, and members of ethnic/religious minorities. Minority leaders have asserted that Kurdish political parties and forces have "subjected them to violence, forced assimilation, discrimination, political marginalization, arbitrary arrests and detention." UNHRC reports that Kurdish parties and forces are "considered responsible for arbitrary arrests, incommunicado detention and torture of political opponents and members of ethnic/religious minorities". UNHCR also stated that Christians have complained about attempts by Kurds to assimilate them and about "the use of force, discrimination and electoral fraud by the Kurdish parties and militias". One incident was on October 2006 when KRG forces broke into the building of a Christian media organization and detained the staff. UNHCR also reported that Christian parties have claimed "harassment and forced assimilation by Kurdish militias in Kirkuk and areas with the aim of incorporating these areas into the Region of Kurdistan", and stated that "Christians have repeatedly accused the Kurdish parties and their military forces of "acts of violence and discrimination, arbitrary arrests and detention on sectarian basis, political marginalization (including through electoral manipulations), monopolizing of government offices,  and changing the demographics with the ultimate goal of incorporating Kirkuk and other mixed areas into the Region of Kurdistan". The Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) noted that the Kurdish parties use a form of "soft ethnic cleansing". Christians have according to UNHCR also repeatedly complained about ongoing Kurdification. The US State Department reported that “Kurdish authorities abused and discriminated against minorities in the North, including Turcomen, Arabs, Christians, and Shabak". UNHCR also stated that Kurdish parties "denied services to some villages, arrested minorities without due process and took them to undisclosed locations for detention, and pressured minority schools to teach in the Kurdish language” There have also been accusations that Kurds were rigging votes in Kirkurk in 2005. Christians and Shabak people asserted that in the 2005 elections, "non-resident Kurds entered the polling centre and over 200 had voted by the time MNF intervened and stopped the illegal voting". In  2005, a peaceful demonstration by Shabak people "turned violent after KDP gunmen shot at the crowd".  The UNHCR also stated that Christians run "the risk of arbitrary arrest and incommunicado detention" by Kurdish forces. The Washington Post reported on extra-judicial detentions already in 2005, writing about a “concerted and widespread initiative” by the Kurdish parties to exercise authority in Kirkuk in an increasingly provocative manner”, and that arbitrary arrests and abductions by Kurdish militia had “greatly exacerbated tensions along purely ethnic lines.” UNAMI HRO said in 2007 that “(T)hey [religious minorities] face increasing threats, intimidations and detentions, often in KRG facilities run by Kurdish intelligence and security forces.”  The Washington Post estimated that there were 600 or more extrajudicial transfers. It was reported that detainees claimed "arbitrary arrests, incommunicado detentions and use of torture and unlawful confiscation of property." Abuses by Kurdish forces ranged from "threats and intimidation to detention in undisclosed locations without due process”; The Kurdish parties’ plans to incorporate "disputed areas" like Kirkuk into  Kurdistan are met with resistance by Christian, Arab and Turkmen groups. UNHCR noted that Christians and Arabs in Mosul and Kirkuk and surrounding areas are "under de facto control of the KRG" and "have become victims of threats, harassment and arbitrary detention." UNHCR also said that Christian and Arab Internally displaced people are discriminated against, and those expressing their opposition to the Kurdish parties, by for example taking part in demonstrations risk "arbitrary arrest and detention". The UNHCR also reports that the KDP and PUK "have repeatedly been accused of nepotism, corruption and lack of internal democracy." According to UNHCR, journalists have "repeatedly claimed that press freedom is restricted and that criticism of the ruling parties can lead to physical harassment, seizure of cameras and notebooks and arrest". In one incident, Kamal Sayid Qadir, was given a 30 years sentence after writing critically about the Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani. The sentence was reduced after international pressure. Arbitrary detentions by Kurdish authorities of suspected political opponents have also been noted. Minorites have complained about "forcible assimilation into Kurdish society and a trend towards increasing discrimination of the non- Kurdish population", and efforts to dominate and “kurdify” traditionally mixed areas like that of Kirkuk. In a 2006 poll that was conducted in Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Dahuk 79% of Kurds were against allowing Arabs to come to Iraqi Kurdistan and 63% were against their settlement in the Region.

Human Rights Watch reported that Christian and other minorities have been victimized by Kurdish authorities’ heavy handed tactics, "including arbitrary arrests and detentions, and intimidation, directed at anyone resistant to Kurdish expansionist plans". To incorporate Nineveh other Christian lands into Kurdish territory, Kurds have offered minorities inducements while at the same time "wielding repression in order to keep them in tow". The KRG also funds Kurdish militias. It was alleged that the systematic and widespread attacks on Christians that took place in 2008 in and near Mosul were committed with KRG responsibility "with the aim of undermining confidence in the central government’s security forces and for the KRG to appear benevolent before the Christian community and the world by subsequently providing security to those who fled the attacks and for strengthening the Kurds in any upcoming referendum or election". During the killings of Christians in Mosul, the Kurdish-dominated security forces seemed unable to stop the attacks. After the killings, Prime Minister al-Maliki replaced Kurdish-dominated security forces in Mosul with non-Kurdish police forces. HRW also stated that "KRG authorities have relied on intimidation, threats, and arbitrary arrests and detentions, more than actual violence, in their efforts to secure support of minority communities for their agenda regarding the disputed territories". A Chaldo-Assyrian leader described the Kurdish campaign to Human Rights Watch as “the overarching, omnipresent reach of a highly effective and authoritarian regime that has much of the population under control through fear. During important elections, death threats against minority community politicians and voters were reported. ---

Ferakp (talk) 18:29, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

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