Dutch MPs Visit North Iraq, Call for Protection for Assyrians
(AINA) -- A Dutch delegation of politicians and journalists traveled to the Assyrian region in north Iraq between March 28 and April 5. The delegation met with more than one hundred Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Assyrian leaders, Assyrian NGO's, UNHCR, the Red Cross and Kurdish leaders.
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Assyrian Security Force Needed in Iraq's Nineveh Plain
(AINA) -- On Feb. 20, 2008, Uruknet1 and the Kurdistan Post2 reported that Masroor Barzani, son of the Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani, was arrested in Austria for an assassination attempt against Kurdish journalist and outspoken critic of the KRG, Mr. Kamal Sayid Kadir.3 Mr. Kadir was arrested and detained for several months in 2005 in the KRG Region for harsh criticism of the Kurdish government and political parties.
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