MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : YEZIDI SINAR, THE PKK AND THEIR ISLAMIST COMPANIONS

Official Warns of Further Deterioration of Sinjar Security

Basnews English 2020/12/26 – 14:07 Kurdistan  ERBIL — The security situation in the Yezidi region of Sinjar is at stake with Hashd al-Shaabi militias and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) deploying more reinforcement despite the Erbil-Baghdad agreement, said a Kurdish official.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the federal government of Iraq reached an agreement in October to remove all the non-official armed forces from Sinjar to restore security and administration of the Yezidi region.

However, Qadir Qachaq, a local representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), says the Iran-backed militias and PKK are not only refusing to leave, but also sending in more fighters.

“There has been no concrete steps taken to implement the agreement. As a result, there still is a security and administration vacuum in Sinjar,” Qachaq told BasNews.

He also stated that several Yezidi IDP families had returned to Sinjar in hopes of rebuilding life in their hometown, but they have once again fled in fear of further deterioration of the security situation.