The Iraqi Council of Representatives aims to pass a law that would return properties affected by certain decisions of the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council to their original owners. However, this law favors specific regional groups over others, leading to regional discrimination and violating the Iraqi constitution, which guarantees equal treatment for all citizens regardless of their region.
Despite the ongoing sectarian discrimination in Iraq, there appears to be a push to introduce another layer of suffering through the regional division of society. Therefore, we urge the Iraqi Council of Representatives to enact the law in a comprehensive manner, ensuring its application across all regions affected by demographic changes and the appropriation of citizens’ lands for other purposes. This issue persists more than two decades after the fall of the former regime.
The forced complexes constructed by the regime on the lands of our Chaldean Syriac Assyrian community still remain, even though other complexes have been demolished. Additionally, our people’s lands in the Kurdistan Region and the Nineveh Plains are facing encroachments that threaten demographic change. Official authorities have not upheld the constitutional provisions that prohibit ownership or any actions leading to such changes, whether partial or complete. It is unjust that we were wronged during the dictatorship and continue to be wronged in an era that claims to be democratic.
Assyrian democratic movement
Assyrian patriotic party
Bet nahrain democratic party
Chaldean syriac assyrian popular council
Beth nahrain patriotic union party