Iraq grants Yazidi community property rights to their homes in Sinjar after 47 years of exclusion

4 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Prime Minister of Iraq, Mohamed Shia al Sudani, has signed this Wednesday a declaration revised by the United Nations to grant the Yazidi community property rights over their homes in Sinjar, in northern Iraq, after 47 years of exclusion.

“Due to discriminatory policies, around a quarter of a million Iraqi Yazidi citizens in the Sinjar district of Nineveh Governorate have not been allowed to own their homes and residential land since 1975,” the Iraqi government said in a statement. Prime Minister’s office, according to the INA news agency.

In this sense, he has expressed that they were “unfair exclusion policies” promoted by the “former dictatorial regime”, for which this decision has been taken “to protect the rights” of the different Iraqi sectors, including those of the “dear “Yazidi community.

“It was one of the firm convictions of the Iraqi State, it was reviewed and presented in collaboration with UN-Habitat,” he stressed, adding that “the decree constitutes an official recognition of ownership of their lands and houses.” “It puts an end to decades of discrimination,” he has settled.

The terrorist group Islamic State in Northern Iraq carried out a massacre in 2014 against the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, where more than 9,000 members of the Yazidi community were kidnapped and killed.