ICC Note:

For the last several years, ISIS has targeted Yazidis and Christians during its rampage. Yazidi men, for example, are executed or forced into hard labor. Yazidi women and girls are raped and sold into human trafficking. One solution that activists have proposed to protect Yazidis, Christians, and other religious minorities is an “internationally protected region” within Nineveh. Iraq’s parliament voted against partitioning Nineveh.

09/27/2016 Iraq (AINA) – The Iraqi Parliament voted in favor of maintaining the administrative border of the province of Nineveh on Monday.

The Iraqi parliament held the session with the presence to discuss several laws, including the vote to maintain the administrative border of the Nineveh province.

The parliament vote was requested by Ahmed al-Jarba, a Sunni MP, representing Nineveh province.

“The Iraqi people reject any decision that partitions the Nineveh province. The people of the city determine the destiny of their city in the post-Islamic State (IS) stage,” al-Jabra said.

Al-Jabra added that any changes against the legal and administrative status quo will be unconstitutional.

This decision by the Iraqi parliament is against the demand of the components of Nineveh, especially Yazidis and Christians who ask for turning Shingal, mostly Yazidi-populated area, and Nineveh Plain, majority Christian populated area, into new provinces.

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