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Yazidi officials call for peace as Iraqi army close in on Shengal
Yazidi Freedom and Democracy Party spokesman Hesen Heci

YAZIDI party officials continued their calls for peace in the Shengal region today as tensions and military activities by the Iraqi army continue to escalate.

Soldiers have closed in on the town in recent days, which lies in one of the areas contested between the Iraqi federal government and the Kurdistan regional government.

Spokesman for the Yazidi Freedom and Democracy Party Hesen Heci said that the operations, conducted in collusion with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), aimed to destroy the system of self-administration there.

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