The President: Consolidating democracy and boosting the strength of basic principles to ensure the security and peace of citizens

Baghdad-INA
The President of the Republic, Abdullatif Jamal Rashid, recalled the crime of genocide that targeted thousands of the Kurdish people of Barzani, while pointing out that consolidating democracy and strengthening the rule of law are basic principles to ensure the security and peace of citizens.

Rashid said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "Our people remember with pain and anger the fortieth anniversary of the genocide that targeted thousands of the Kurdish people of Barzani in the Kurdistan region, between martyrs and absentees," noting that "that heinous crime that he committed The dictatorial regime is an expression of the brutality that characterized the behavior of tyranny, which did not hesitate to commit the most heinous crimes."

The statement added, "The crime of targeting Barzanian citizens was to be followed by a series of genocide crimes within what was known as the Anfal operations, then the crime of Halabja using chemical weapons against civilian citizens, and all of these crimes were aimed at human densities, against thousands of men, young and old, and women and children without any moral deterrent,” explaining that “it is not difficult to establish a link between those crimes that the dictatorship practiced before and the crimes of terrorism that affected thousands of citizens with genocide, as happened at the hands of ISIS during their occupation of a number of provinces, cities and villages in Iraq, they are different forms of racism, sectarianism, ethnicity and religion."

It stated that "consolidating democracy, strengthening the power of law, and a true belief in accepting diversity and differences are basic principles to ensure the security and peace of citizens in a country where citizens feel their rights, defend its fair democratic system, and elevate it to the ranks of well-established and ancient democracies in our contemporary world," explaining that "we remember the righteous martyrs, the victims of the crimes of genocide, and we draw inspiration from their sacrifices and the suffering of their relatives as a lesson, and we are more determined to honor the sacrifices, glorify heroism, and work to preserve the rights of the afflicted families."