The Assyrian Democratic Organization
By Inal Ersan and Marwan MakdesiAL-HASSAKA, Syria (Reuters) – Sporadic gunfire echoed through the northeast Syrian town of Kemishli on Sunday as a burning grain silo and damaged public buildings showed the severity of two days of Kurdish rioting that killed 14 people.Senior security officials met local leaders as part …
Read More »Kurds riot in Syria
Senior security officials met local leaders as part of efforts to restore order, and a Reuters correspondent touring the town saw a badly damaged railway station, and schools and public offices that had been wrecked or burnt.The violence in Kameshli, an ethnically mixed town near the Turkish and Iraqi border, …
Read More »Five die in Syrian football fracas
Witnesses said at least three of the victims died on Friday in a stampede as panicked fans tried to escape the fighting. More than 100 others have been injured in the violence. State-run Syrian Radio reported the deaths as it began live coverage of the match, which was quickly called …
Read More »Iraq Council, With Reluctant Shiites, Signs Charter
The signing ceremony for the interim constitution, delayed once because of terrorist attacks and again because of a political deadlock, unfolded without a hitch inside the fortified confines of the American compound. Each of the 25 members of the Iraqi Governing Council signed it or had a representative do so. …
Read More »LAW OF ADMINISTRATION FOR THE STATE OF IRAQ
These people, affirming today their respect for international law, especially having been amongst the founders of the United Nations, working to reclaim their legitimate place among nations, have endeavoured at the same time to preserve the unity of their homeland in a spirit of fraternity and solidarity in order to …
Read More »Iraqi leaders strike compromise on basic law after marathon talks
The basic law text negotiated the thorny issues of the role of Islam, Kurdish self-rule and the representation of women that had forced the US-picked interim Governing Council to miss a Saturday deadline for completion.“We just broke out (of the meeting). The Fundamental Law has been concluded,” a jubilant Intifah …
Read More »Members of governing council
1. Yonnadam Kanna, is an Assyrian Christian who heads the Assyrian Democratic Movement. An engineer by profession, Kana served as an official for the transport ministry in the first Kurdish regional assembly and then as a trade minister in the regional government established in Arbil in northern Iraq.2. Sangul Shapuk, is a Turkman …
Read More »Fear among the Christian community in Iraq (16/02/2004)
Prague, 13 February 2004 (RFE/RL) — It has been a deadly week in Iraq. Two separate suicide bombings have left some 80 people dead and many more wounded. It is a situation that has reduced nearly every Iraqi to living in fear. The attacks do not appear to discriminate between …
Read More »Paul D. Wolfowitz: Women’s hopes in a new Iraq (16/02/2004)
A predominantly Shiite town known as the site of one of Iraq’s largest mass graves, where as many as 15,000 may have been killed, Hillah is also the location of something very hopeful: the Al Hillah Women’s Center, a center to advance the cause of women’s rights. The women I …
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