Shafaq News– Baghdad
Parliament approved a request to summon Nashat IbrahimAl-Khafaji, head of the Civil Status, Passports, and Residence Directorate, toexamine unresolved issues affecting Iraq’s Feyli Kurdish community, a lawmakerconfirmed on Monday.
Speaking to Shafaq News, MP Haider Ali Abu Tara, theFeyli Kurdish quota representative, said the Council of Representativesauthorized a formal hearing. The session will scrutinize administrative andlegal barriers across nationality, civil status, and residency services andseek actionable remedies.
Feyli Kurds, a Shiite Kurdish minority, facedsystematic abuses under the former regime, including deportation,denationalization, property seizure, enforced disappearance, and killings, particularlyin the 1970s and in 1980. In November 2010, the Iraqi High Criminal Courtclassified these crimes as genocide, requiring restitution of citizenship,compensation, and clarification of missing persons’ cases. Government decisionsin December 2010 and August 2011 pledged corrective measures, which remainpartially unimplemented.
: Stateless at Home — The forgotten fate of Iraq’s Feyli Kurds
