[Rudaw] An Iraqi security and ministerial delegation visited the Makhmour refugee camp on Monday to investigate recent "Baghdad's joint delegation searched the camp. We called for the protection of civilians, and we said that the Kurdistan Region has not allowed our people to enter Erbil and Duhok for two years," Haji Kachan, co-chair of the Makhmour Camp Council, told Rudaw on Monday.
Makhmour camp hosts more than 12,000 Kurdish refugees who fled persecution by the
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near the camp killed three people and on Friday,
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claimed it killed a senior PKK official near Makhmour.
The Iraqi government delegation that visited included representatives from the interior and migration ministries, as well as security officials. They asked to set up an Iraqi administration in the camp and make some changes in order to increase protection for the residents, according to Kachan.
The deputy commander of Iraqi Joint Operations on Monday said they need to boost protection for the camp. "Security will be enhanced with the presence of local police forces," said Lieutenant-General Abdul Amir al-Shammari.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is concerned about the camp because residents don’t have recognized identity documents. "The camp is a special situation for us. The problem of the camp residents is that they don’t have official identifications issued by the government of Iraq or United Nations
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. We don’t know that the information on the identification card is information on the holder or not, because they are not official," Dindar Zebari, international advocacy coordinator for the KRG, said in a presser on June 8.