Al-Maliki: The crimes of the late regime against Faili Kurds were under sectarian and nationalist pretexts

Baghdad, The head of the State of Law coalition, Nouri al-Maliki, confirmed that the fallen regime committed crimes against the Faili Kurds under nationalist and sectarian pretexts. Al-Maliki said, during the annual memorial ceremony on the occasion of Faili Martyr's Day, today, Saturday, in Baghdad, under the auspices of Acting Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mohsen al-Mandalawi, in cooperation with the Martyrs Foundation, that 'the Faili Kurds were subjected to intense persecution from the former regime.' He added, "Many Iraqis do not know what the Failis were subjected to at the hands of the criminal Baath, and some yearn for the days of the tyrant because he committed sectarian and nationalist crimes," noting that "officers at the present time are deliberately writing 'subordination' to the identity of the Faili Kurds." Al-Maliki stressed, "The crimes of the buried Baath have not been fully revealed yet," calling for the Criminal Court to continue holding accountable all perpetrators of crimes against the Faili Kurds. Source: National Iraqi News Agency