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Demonstrations continued and pieces of the ways in Diyala refused to convert to the territory
On: Sun 12/18/2011 8:51
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and out of hundreds of Iraqis in Diyala yesterday to demonstrate for the fifth consecutive day in protest against the decision of the provincial council members of the claim to the territory of an independent switch. The members of the Diyala provincial council and the major cities of Baquba
Had announced Monday that they collected the signatures of 15 of the 29 members of the Council to demand the formation region. Since last Tuesday morning, organizes hundreds of residents to maintain daily demonstrations in different parts of Diyala, in protest at the Council's move to maintain some of its members, who fled to other areas. And gathered yesterday hundreds of people in front of the provincial council building in central Baquba, waving banners, one of them "No, no to sectarian" and "the people of Diyala condemn the division of Iraq" and "No, both of the territory," according to a correspondent of the AFP at the scene. The protesters chanted "Diyala us, and what we give" and "Yes, yes to unity" and "No, no to the division." And prompted demonstrations angry Diyala Governor Abdul Nasser James Baldwin and many members of the provincial council to flee to the Kurdistan region, said James Baldwin told AFP late Friday that he "is with most members of the provincial council of the Iraqi List and the Kurdistan Alliance and others in the Kurdistan region" since the start of the protests. He spoke of the provincial council member Issam Shaker on the process of "cutting of roads led to the suspension of work in the provincial council and the Department of the province and close some circles completely and the reluctance of most of the work in the schools." In the same context, management announced the Diyala province yesterday set up a Higher Committee to oversee the management of the formation of the territory of the province, confirmed that the provincial council held an emergency meeting today to discuss the latest developments taking place in Diyala. A spokesman for Governor of Diyala heritage Azzawi in an interview told Alsumaria News that "the administration of the province formed the Supreme Committee overseeing the formation of Diyala province," asserting that "the Committee consisting of members of the House of Representatives and the province to implement the constitutional steps to achieve the establishment of the region." He said al-Azzawi that "the Provincial Council will be held on Sunday, an emergency session to discuss the current situation within the province and their impact results on the political process and security," expected to "issued by the Council important decisions consistent with what is going on," For his part, House Speaker Osama Najafi, yesterday the demonstrators in Diyala province against the establishment of the region to "militias", warning of the danger of spread and practice of banditry and terrorism, citizens, urged the government and security forces to impose security force. Osama al-Najafi said in an interview told Alsumaria News that "the situation in Diyala is dangerous and there is a spread of militias cut off roads and beyond the army and trying to prevent local government from exercising its role, "noting that" allow for the spread of chaos will give serious indications that Iraq is not heading in the right direction. "
said Najafi, that "the Diyala province, a disaster and must be controlled by the rule of law and the return of civilian life and the return of the work of local government and allow for citizens to express their opinion in a peaceful way, "noting that" the militias are trying to influence public opinion and the government of Diyala, local and this is wrong. "
He called Najafi government and security forces to "enforce the law and to deter any person carrying weapons outside the framework of the law strongly." The Diyala provincial council voted on 12 of December, the current, the majority of its members to declare conservative provinces administratively and economically, also signed the majority of its members a formal request directed to the central government on the resolution, as Vice President of the Council honest Husseini, said that the decision was made without the approval of the the presidency, saying that the time is now "inappropriate" for such a procedure. In turn, warned of the Iraqi province of Diyala, in the 15 of December, the current, of the danger of armed manifestations deployed in the areas of maintaining security community, saying that keeping it on what it portends "consequences", while denied the security committee of the Council of Diyala and there is no armed manifestations in the ranks of the demonstrators. The Diyala province of Iraq's second declare territory administratively and economically, after less than two months of the Declaration of Salahuddin province, on 27 October a similar move, in reaction to the actions of the Ministry of Higher Education to dismiss 140 teachers and staff of the University of Tikrit and separated from their work in implementation of the Accountability and Justice Commission , as well as in response to a campaign of arrests in Salahuddin province, on 23 and 26 October, which included dozens of former Iraqi army officers and members of the ousted Baath party, and in protest of the province on what promised excluded and marginalized them by the federal government, and lack of access to the dues financial and grades. Article 119 of the Iraqi constitution that "the right of each province or more, form a region at the request of the referendum is thus submitted one of two ways: First, he asked the third of the members in each of the provincial councils that desire to form a region," and "Second Request than ten voters in each of the governorates intending to form a region. "
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