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Interior Ministry: The plan to restrict escaped weapons extends until the end of 2024
Iraq 02/28/2024
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Baghdad: Huda Al-Azzawi
The Ministry of the Interior stated that its strategy and plan that it developed to restrict illicit weapons through procedures for purchasing from citizens will continue until the end of the current year 2024, and that after that the “black market” will be dealt with in other ways according to the law, while security experts criticized the ministry’s procedures and confirmed that they caused an increase in weapon prices. , calling for tougher penalties for possession and trafficking in unlicensed weapons to serve as a real deterrent.
The spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior and the Security Media Cell, Brigadier General Miqdad Miri, said in an exclusive interview with “Al-Sabah”: “The strategy of restricting the escaped weapons by the Ministry of the Interior will continue until the end of the current year on 12/31/2024 as a time limit, and then we will move to the stages.” Others," and he stated, "A committee has been formed and the purchase prices have been determined and all that remains is to approve them, and the ministry is serious about implementing the government program."
Regarding the rise in weapon prices on the “black market” as a result of the decisions issued by the Ministry of Interior at the end of the last quarter of 2023 to allocate an amount of one billion dinars to each governorate to purchase weapons, Brigadier General Merry stressed that “the rise in weapon prices does not affect the ministry’s procedures in light of setting the price.” The time specified is according to technical principles that studied this issue, and thus the price was determined by us. As for the (black market), after the actual completion of organizing the procedures, it will be dealt with in another manner in accordance with the law.”
For his part, the expert in military and strategic affairs, retired Major General Dr. Imad Alo, said in an interview with “Al-Sabah” that “the issue of uncontrolled weapons is still a phenomenon that has been troubling successive Iraqi governments since 2003 until now, and that they have always announced that weapons are restricted to the hands of the state.” But without tangible results on the ground reality.”
He stressed, “With the escalation of the phenomenon of assassinations and criminal crimes using various weapons, tribal disputes, and other manifestations of societal militarization, strict measures must be taken by the Ministry.”
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He said: “The procedures of the Ministry of the Interior come in accordance with the government program proposed by Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani, which includes controlling rampant weapons, as a result of which the Ministry held a conference on procedures and programs for gun control, which resulted in the allocation of one billion dinars to each governorate for the purpose of purchasing weapons.” In addition to the other procedure by organizing an electronic form for the purpose of each family possessing a weapon
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Dr. Alo criticized the Interior Ministry’s procedures regarding the purchase of weapons as “useless,” indicating that those procedures led to a significant increase in the price of weapons on the “black market.” He added that “those procedures also led to the encouragement of arms smugglers and gangs of this type of trade, whether Cross borders or internal trade within the Iraqi geographical area to activate their commercial activity for the purpose of collecting the funds that have been allocated.”
In turn, the director of the Republican Center for Strategic Studies, Dr. Moataz Mohi Abdel Hamid, said in an interview with Al-Sabah: “The Iraqi government faces a real problem with regard to the issue of limiting the spread of weapons,” and noted that “the Iraqi government’s confirmation of the huge numbers of The process of uncovering arms and ammunition hoards, on the one hand, and the increase in the number of weapon owners, on the other hand, clearly demonstrate the abject failure of government forces to disarm and their failure to carry out educational and awareness campaigns to warn against their possession.”
He pointed out that "Iraq has become, at the regional level, a gateway and a major corridor for arms smuggling to Turkey, Iran and the Arab region. What is more dangerous than that is that arms dealers in Iraq deal with everyone without discrimination, with the aim of achieving high rates of financial gains, if not There are other reasons targeting the people of that region.”
Dr. Abdel Hamid believes that “controlling loose weapons can be achieved by tightening the penalty for possession and trafficking in firearms (without a license) to constitute a deterrent factor, and organizing intense and bold campaigns to control illegal and illegal weapons, especially the weapons of armed groups under any title, and reconsidering the Regulating possession, setting regulatory conditions, and prohibiting the absolute carrying of weapons in all their forms by anyone other than the armed and security forces, and giving priority in the judiciary to resolve weapons law lawsuits to achieve deterrence, as procrastination and procrastination in considering these lawsuits and lax rulings all encourage the exacerbation of this phenomenon.”
Edited by: Muhammad Al-Ansari
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