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Kurdistan calls for government institutions to apologize for the practices of Saddam, similar to the Ministry of the Interior

Shafaq News/ The coalition of Kurdish blocs, called on Monday, ministries and state institutions to apologize to the Iraqi people following the example of the Ministry of Interior, which had taken this step yesterday through a statement, noting that it was supposed on the current government to offer an apology to the Kurdish people in particular and the Iraqi public after the decision of the Upper Court of Criminal and counted the crimes committed against the Kurdish as genocide.The Federal Ministry of Interior has issued a statement on Sunday, on the eve of the celebration of the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the Iraqi police in which it made an apology to the Iraqi people for pushing its forces in the practices that occurred during the previous regime, which "were not of their duties."

The MP of the coalition of Kurdish blocs Saman Fawzi said in an interview with "Shafaq  News" that "The  apology of the Ministry of Interior of the Iraqi people for dispatching them to practices that occurred during the rule of the former regime is a good step for the construction of a security is aimed only to defend the internal security of Iraq," calling on "all ministries and institutions and government departments to follow the lead of the Ministry of Interior and apologize to the Iraqi people on the practices that occurred during the former regime. "

"despite the fact that ministries and government institutions at the moment does not bear the practices committed by the former regime against the people, but this does not preclude an apology to them," He added counting that as "something followed in many democratic countries, which witnessed what Iraq had witnessed from the rule of dictatorships. "