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July 08, 2006A call from the Ankawa farmers
It seems that the many complaints on the part of the Ankawa farmers to the officials regarding monetary compensation for the farmers and property owners were all for nothing.
Even though this subject isn't a mere complaint but rather it comes out of the righteous voice which should always be above all. There are legal documents which prove the ownership of the properties which were taken by the government for the construction of the Arbil International airport as well as other projects such as:
> Apartment buildings on the Ankawa properties.
> Construction of hydro stations on a 90 Dunum of land which is part of the Ankawa properties.
> Building the so-called City of Dreams on large portions of lands belonging to the Ankawa farmers.
> Establishing plant nurseries affiliated with the gardening administration in Arbil on the Ankawa lands.
> Appropriating more than 500 Dunum of lands, and passing them to the department of agricultural research, forbidding the farmers of their lawful right to the lands, while those who were allowed to cultivate the lands were not residents of Ankawa.
We appeal to all the officials to find a prompt solution giving back the lawful land owners what's rightfully theirs ... We also thank Ankawa.com for its help in posting this complaint ...
Respectfully,
The Ankawa farmers
Original link http: //www.ankawa.com/forum/index.php/topic,47448.0.html
ANA - Translation note: The lands referred to belong to Assyrians in Occupied Assyria "North of Iraq" under Kurdish control. Complaints such as the one above fall on deaf ears. Many lands are appropriated as such and the rightful land owners are unable to have any legal recourse.
The Dunum is a metric unit equal to 1000 square meters or 0.1 hectare (about 0.2471 acre). In Mesopotamia and Arabia, the Dunum was a larger unit, traditionally in the range of 2500 to 4000 square meters. In modern Iraq, the Dunum is now standardized at 2500 square meters (about 0.6179 acre).
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