33,000 people, forced to leave their home towns in southern Iraq’s Missan Province, compensated

MISSAN / IraqiNews.com: Iraq ’s Council of Ministers has decided to cover people, forced by Iraq ’s former ruling Baath regime, to leave their home towns in southern Iraq ’s Missan Province , who were residents of its Ahwars (Marchland), with Article 140 of the Constitution, on their compensation.   “The Council’s instruction covers all those, forced to leave Missan to another province, or outside Iraq, during the period from July 17, 1968 (when Baath came to power) till 9/4/2003, (when the former regime fell down under the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq),” Missan’s Director of the Office, in charge of implementing Article 140 of the Constitution, Mohammed Jawad told IraqiNews.com news agency on Tuesday.   “The number of documents, distributed on Missan’s said deported citizens, covered with Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution, had reached 33,000,” Jawad said.   He said that the Council of Minister’s decision “covers all deported citizens of Missan Province , especially the residents of the Ahwars (Marchland), with Article 140 of the Constitution, to compensate each of them with 10 million Iraqi dinars and a patch of land.”   Amara, the center of Missan Province , is 390 km to the south of Baghdad .   SKH (IT)   843