Arrest of Iraqi MP, killing of his family members, condemned by Iranian resistance

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The Iranian Resistance strongly condemns the criminal Saturday morning, December 28, attack by Maliki’s forces with over 50 armored vehicles and helicopter on AlbuAlwan village in Anbar Province and the arrest of Dr. Ahmed Alwani, Chair of Iraqi parliament Economy Commission, and the killing of a number of his family members and guards, including his brother Sheik Ali al-Alwani and a female relative. This was despite Dr. Alwani’s parliamentary immunity and the fact that his arrest lacks any legal justification.
According to Iraqi and Arabic media, Sheik Ali was summarily executed in front of his brother’s eyes after he was arrested by the assailing force and Dr. Alwani was transferred with helicopter to the Baghdad Green Zone.
Dr. Alwani is among leaders of protests and sit-ins of people of Anbar and is vehemently against mullahs’ regime dominion over Iraq and Maliki’s subordination to the mullahs and strongly opposes the violation of rights of PMOI members in Ashraf and camp liberty. Therefore, he has always been despised by the religious fascism ruling Iran. Maliki had previously, on many occasions, attempted to assassinate or arrest him, including on 11 March 2013.
A few hours prior to the barbaric attack on AlbuAlwan village, the suppressive forces opened fire on the sit-in protesters in Ramadi that left behind one dead and a number of wounded. It is reported that today, Maliki has dispatched a large number of his forces to Ramadi to confront the people in this town.
The arrest of Dr. Alwani and the slaughter of his family members and guards, as well as the attack on the Ramadi sit-in is the other side of the coin of rocket attack on Camp Liberty and the massacre and mass execution of PMOI members in Ashraf and the taking of seven of them hostage. These are all conditions set by mullahs’ regime to support Maliki’s third term as prime minister which Maliki has doubly committed himself to in his visit three weeks ago to Tehran.
To extend his ominous rule over Iraq, Maliki does neither hesitate in massacring the Iranian refugees in Camp Liberty nor in instigating a bloodshed and sectarian war. Therefore, to provide peace and security in Iraq, the Security Council should immediately intervene, demand release of the arrestees, and stop Maliki’s criminal acts.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 29, 2013

 

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UN: More than 140,000 Iraqis flee Anbar violence
January 24, 2014 — More than 140,000 Iraqis have fled parts of Anbar province over clashes between security forces and al-Qaida militants, the worst displacement of civilians in years, a United Nations official said Friday.

The spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Peter Kessler, described it as "the largest" displacement witnessed in the country since the sectarian violence of 2006-2008. He added that more than 65,000 people fled the conflict just in the past week alone. Since late December, members of Iraq's al-Qaida branch — known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — have taken over parts of Ramadi, the capital of the largely Sunni province of Anbar. They also control the center of the nearby city of Fallujah.

Kessler said that many civilians are trapped and suffer from a lack of supplies. "Many civilians are unable to leave conflict-affected areas where food and fuel are now in short supply," he said. Calls to Iraq's Justice Ministry over the report rang unanswered Friday, the start of the weekend in the Muslim world. Some displaced families have ended up in abandoned buildings, schools and half-built houses while others stay with relatives. International aid agencies appealed to the warring parties on Wednesday to allow humanitarian aid to reach those affected.

Mourners carry the coffin of Haitham Abdo Rahman, 38, who was killed in a bombing, before his burial at the cemetery in Fallujah, Iraq. Islamic militants controlling a mainly Sunni area west of Baghdad are so well-armed that they could occupy the capital, members of Iraq's al-Qaida branch - known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - have taken over parts of Ramadi, the capital of the largely Sunni western province of Anbar.

Farhan Haq, a spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, said Friday that the world body asked the Iraqi government to open a "humanitarian corridor" to help aid get into affected areas. "It's impossible right now to reach the area from Baghdad, and relief agencies are using roads coming from northern Iraq," Haq said.

As sporadic clashes resumed Friday night in Fallujah, a mortar shell landed on a house in the city's center, killing six people, including an 8-year-old boy, local doctor Waisam al-Mohammadi said. Political and sectarian tensions are running high in Iraq, raising fears that the country is being pushed back toward the sectarian bloodshed that killed tens of thousands of people following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.

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