Iraqi Kurdish MP demands Kurdistan gov’t to send Kurdish Pehsmerga forces to Diala Province

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Legislature of North Iraq Kurdistan Region’s Coalition, Aala Talabani, has said on Thursday that her Coalition “demands the three ruling Iraqi Presidencies, to interfere, in order to restore security for some areas in northeast Iraq’s Diala Prince,” stressing that the Kurdistan government would be demanded to send its Peshmerga forces to protect citizens in those areas.   “The Kurdistan Coalition is demanding Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani, Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki and Parliament Speaker, Usama al-Nujeify, to interfere, in order to take urgent measures to restore security and stability for the citizens of Diala’s Jalawlaa, Saadiya and Qara-Tappa townships,” Aala Talabani told a news conference at the Parliament’s building, stressing that “citizens of those areas have been targets for assassinations and threats, in order to force them leave their home towns.”   She said that “1,362 Kurdish families were forced to leave their hometowns, replacing them by about 4,000 Arab families, along with assassinating 52 persons,” adding that she would demand Kurdistan Region’s government to send Peshmerga forces, to protect the citizens of those areas.”   SKH (IT)