Reuters: 85 farm and dozens of oil wells Iraq as a result lost the demarcation of the border with Kuwait
Translation / Baghdadiya News / .. Reuters reported that farmers in the Iraqi town of Safwan border with Kuwait, the Iraqi government demanded compensation for crops that could be the result of their loss of land through the Security Council resolution regarding the demarcation of the border between Iraq and Kuwait in May 1993.
The United States has led in the 1991 war against Iraq ended whereby the occupation of Kuwait, which lasted for seven months in 1994 before the Iraq border demarcation new by the United Nations between Iraq and Kuwait, which had been raised since 1993, but the Iraqi farmers who lost their farms and land as a result This demarcation still consider that these lands to them, although it is now located within Kuwaiti territory or within the buffer man's land between Iraq and Kuwait and that a width of 500 meters, and agreed to by both sides in 2010.
Rabah Salhi, a farmer has land within the territory of Kuwait and the buffer zone pointed out that many farmers have lost crops and lost control of the agricultural water wells due to the demarcation of the borders of the United Nations, and they are demanding the Iraqi government compensate for this loss. He Salhi said, "I have had three farms have lost two of them within the territory of Kuwait and the third is what you see here as a result of the demarcation of the border by the United Nations in 1993, so we call on the government to indemnify us for the value of all agricultural crops, which lost for 19 years through the demarcation of the border with Kuwait In addition to indemnify us for wells and houses that have lost before and after the demarcation. " He Salhi said, "that people say that there are approximately 85 farms were in Iraq and are now within Kuwaiti territory have been instructed to dozens of Iraqi families that live near the border with Kuwait to leave the area and move to new homes after the appointment of the buffer zone between the two sides."
The head of the provincial council in Basra Sabah Hassan Albzona "The Iraqi government has formed committees to compensate those affected by the decision of the United Nations and to compensate farmers of the border demarcation decision of the United Nations No. 833 in March of 1993," adding, "It was through this decision to take 206 homes and dozens of oil wells in Iraqi territory and annex it to Kuwait. " He said Albzona also "that we have a property has become within Kuwaiti territory was built on the basis of the government to form special committees for compensation for those affected by the demarcation of the border as a result of an agreement tent" Safwan "and signed by the former regime with the Kuwaiti side" as he said some farmers, we do not accept compensation from the United Nations and Kuwait, and said frankly that the Iraqi government must compensate its citizens at the same time reject the taking of that land by force from Iraq at a time when Iraq was in a weak position. Ended / 21
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