The Kurdistan Observer
Mar 26, 2001

Iraqi authorities have forcefully deported five Kurdish families in Tuze Khurmatoo south of
Kirkuk city. Their documents were ceased and their houses were expropriated and given to
Arab families. The families were asked to register as Arabs or face deportation to the areas
controlled by the Kurdish authorities. The deportees who arrived in Kurdistan asked UN to
pressure Iraqi government to allow them back to their land and to halt further deportation
activities. The deportees numbered 33 persons, all from the farm lands near Tuze
Khurmatoo.
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