Skip to main content

Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Lord Campbell-Savours (Labour), on Monday, 17 May 1993, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 35 members in total.


IRAQI TERRORIST ATTACKS IN IRAQI KURDISTAN

That this House condemns the intensifying terrorist campaign being waged by Saddam Hussein to drive international agencies from Iraqi Kurdistan; notes the recent grenade attack on a primary school feeding station used by the French aid agency Equilibre in its programme of providing meals for 30,000 Kurdish children; notes the bomb attack on a teashop in Darbandikhan on 16th May that severely injured 12 people; notes that on 9th May, after a prolonged artillery barrage, Iraqi troops attacked the Kurdish town of Uwaynah, only 15 miles from the Kurdish administrative centre in Erbil; notes that because donors have failed to provide sufficient funds 50 of the 236 United Nation Guards based in the area have been withdrawn and that the rest will reportedly follow by 15th June; notes that the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs appealed for $489 million to cover the aid and protection operations in Iraq from 1st April but has received less than $2 million; and calls for Her Majesty's Government or urgently focus international attention on these grave developments and for the British media to properly report them.


Secondary information

Type
Early day motion
Reference
2020 
Session
1992-93
Subjects
Human rights Iraq United Nations Oppression Kurds
Link
View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk