Local resident suspect census process
“Through your Cooperative, I ask the Kurdish political leadership not to send us Arab staff, but to send us Kurdish.” He urged.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – A local resident from Rahimawa area in Kirkuk city, named Rebwar, revealed a plan by the census staff member in the province.
"The Arab census staff members in the Kurdish areas count one family and skip four other families, so the Arab staff do not count Kurds completely and accurately, which is a hard hit on Kurds," Rebwar told Kurdistan 24.
“Through your Cooperative, I ask the Kurdish political leadership not to send us Arab staff, but to send us Kurdish.” He urged.
"When the Arab staff come, they ask how many the households are? We answer there are three by three, so they register them as a one family." Rebwar added.
The Iraqi Minister of Planning had decided to register more than 5.000 observers as a part of the census team in Kirkuk.
The authority of population census in the Kurdish areas in Kirkuk is outside the Kurdistan Regional Government limit.
That is based on the 1957 census, and the Kurds are skeptical about the procedure.
Translated by Seyran