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Halabja Gas Attack And Anfal Campaign Anniversary

EDM number 922 in 2008-09, proposed by Bob Spink on 02/03/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Iraq.

That this House notes the commemoration of the 21st anniversary of the Halabja gas attack; recognises that the Halabja atrocity and the subsequent Anfal Campaign of 1988 together constituted a genocide against the Kurdish people; further recognises the results are still with the Halabja people through cancers, birth abnormalities, deformities, pollution and poisoned land; supports a proposal to establish a compensation fund for the survivors and the bereaved, to be funded by a percentage of profits made by oil and other companies who sign new contracts within the Iraqi and Kurdish governments; and calls on the Government to press the United Nations to release the names of all the companies who supplied the chemical agents to the Ba'ath regime so that the companies may be pressed to provide ex-gratia payments to the fund.

This motion has been signed by a total of 24 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bob Spink02/03/2009Castle PointIndependentProposed
Andrew George02/03/2009St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn03/03/2009Islington NorthLabourSeconded
David Drew03/03/2009StroudLabourSeconded
Ann Cryer03/03/2009KeighleyLabourSeconded
Lynne Jones03/03/2009Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSeconded
Laura Moffatt03/03/2009CrawleyLabourSigned
John Austin03/03/2009Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Dan Rogerson04/03/2009North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Angus MacNeil04/03/2009Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Mark Durkan04/03/2009FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Martin Caton04/03/2009GowerLabourSigned
Alan Simpson04/03/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins10/03/2009TamworthLabourSigned
Janet Dean10/03/2009BurtonLabourSigned
John Leech10/03/2009Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Marsha Singh11/03/2009Bradford WestLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell11/03/2009Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Dai Davies11/03/2009Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Andrew Stunell18/03/2009Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Hywel Williams18/03/2009CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Bill Etherington23/04/2009Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Kim Howells07/05/2009PontypriddLabourSigned
Alan Keen04/11/2009Feltham and HestonLabourSigned

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