Poultry Farmers Demand Compensation

Kurdistani Nwe issued daily by Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.

Poultry Farmers Demand Compensation

Kurdistani Nwe issued daily by Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.

Thursday, 2 February, 2006
IWPR

IWPR

Institute for War & Peace Reporting

A number of poultry farmers in the Sulaimaniyah region organized a peaceful demonstration asking (the government) to cull their birds and compensate them. The farmers met with (Kurdistan Regional Government) deputy prime minister Emad Ahmad at the council of ministers' office (in Sulaimaniyah.) In a meeting, the deputy prime minister promised that a committee would be formed to estimate poultry farmers' losses and compensate them. In a step to prevent bird flu, (which was recently discovered in Iraqi Kurdistan) the administration has started killing birds in the area. So far thousands have been killed.
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