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July 1, 2006
Hamdaniya, Northern Iraq/ Assyria
A group of Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) peshmerga (party militia) seized the Hamdaniya main petrol station in order to get gas that is reserved originally for the general public. The local police interfered and an entanglement ensued. Two police were injured. The public was frightened, the station was closed, and the people were deprived of their share of gas.
Such attacks, assaults, and gas monopoly by the KDP are normal recurrences. The militias killed two residents of Bartella earlier when they were waiting to receive their share of gas at a gas station. The people protested the trespassing of KDP's peshmerga against what belongs to the general public.
Original Source in Arabic: Zahrira Net
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