Parliament is awaiting the arrival of the enforced disappearance law to begin its legislation

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[size=52]Parliament is awaiting the arrival of the enforced disappearance law to begin its legislation[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Firas Adnan[/size]
[size=45]The House of Representatives is awaiting the arrival of the draft law on enforced disappearance in order to initiate its legislative procedures, amid hopes that a consensus can be reached on its texts in light of the rapprochement within the state administration alliance between the Shiite and Sunni blocs.[/size]
[size=45]A specialized parliamentary committee says that this draft came as a substitute for another that was read for the first time earlier, but it was met with parliamentary and governmental objections.[/size]
[size=45]The House of Representatives had announced the commencement of the work of its committees last Saturday, provided that the sessions will officially resume next week, after a legislative recess that lasted for a month.[/size]
[size=45]The Council of Ministers approved the draft law on enforced disappearance, and decided to refer it to the House of Representatives based on the provisions of the Constitution, stressing the need to take into account the observations of the legal department in the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers.[/size]
[size=45]A member of the Human Rights Committee in the House of Representatives, Arshad al-Salihi, said, "The Human Rights Committee took upon itself the law of enforced disappearance and completed its first reading in the House of Representatives."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Salihi added, "The government then sent a letter and informed us that it intends to prepare this project, which is a good thing."[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out, "The committee is waiting for the government project to officially reach it in order to legislate it, because we have not received it until the present time."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Salihi expressed his hope that "this law will be comprehensive, through dealing with committees for the forcibly disappeared, whether at the international or domestic levels, or civil society organizations."[/size]
[size=45]And he stated, "Some of the political blocs objected to the law proposed by the committee earlier, as the draft witnessed different points of view."[/size]
[size=45]And Al-Salihi continues, "The points involved in the government project have not been seen by us until the present time, whether it includes positive or negative legal texts, or it is merely giving a paper with the aim of addressing this file."[/size]
[size=45]And he talked about the importance of “that the texts of the law be well prepared and give everyone his right, especially since the committee had previously presented a law for victims of justice, but it was met with governmental or parliamentary objection.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Salhi expressed, "The Human Rights Committee is ready to discuss this project after we receive it officially from the government."[/size]
[size=45]And he talked about "the presence of enforced disappearances during the liberation battles, including in the areas of Al-Razzaza and Saqlawiya, and there are committees that were formed jointly, and their membership includes different parties, but efforts to reveal the fate of these disappeared remained suspended due to the debate and political dispute between the blocs."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Salihi continued, "Some were accusing the security forces of enforced disappearances, and this caused the investigations to be disrupted."[/size]
[size=45]He explained, "If the funds are not sufficient to follow up on this file or open the mass graves, then the matter requires us to resort to the international community in securing a mechanism to carry out the tasks assigned to the relevant authorities."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Salihi concluded, "The political situation will help speed up the passage of this law, provided that it meets the ambition and is consistent with the goals imposed by the public interest."[/size]
[size=45]And international sources indicate that "between 250 thousand and one million Iraqis have disappeared over the past half century."[/size]
[size=45]And the sources added, "Iraq is supposed to develop a comprehensive strategy for research and investigation of cases of enforced disappearance."[/size]
[size=45]She pointed out, "There were 5 waves of enforced disappearances in Iraq that began in 1986 and continued until last year."[/size]
[size=45]The sources stressed, "These waves included the genocide campaigns, the period of the American occupation of Iraq, the control of the terrorist organization ISIS, the liberation battles, and the confrontation of the popular protests."[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, the representative of the coordination framework, Muhammad Al-Baldawi, stated that “one of the major problems that took place in the areas occupied by ISIS is for those who joined the ranks of the terrorist organization ISIS, today it is intended to market them as one of the disappeared.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Baldawi added, "The Martyrs Foundation has formed committees to audit all the decisions of those covered by its law (the affected people) to ensure the validity of the decisions or not, stop any decision that violates the controls, and take legal measures against the violators."[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out, "Some politicians are trying to market ISIS as one of the absentees, as the forgery process included thousands of transactions promoted to support ISIS members and their families with pension salaries."[/size]
[size=45]It is noteworthy that Iraq does not have a law to deal with the crimes of enforced disappearance, and it has not succeeded in legislating it until the present time, despite the completion of its first reading.[/size]
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