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Iraqi Terrorist Attacks In Iraqi Kurdistan

EDM number 2020 in 1992-93, proposed by DN Campbell-Savours on 17/05/1993.

That this House condemns the intensifying terrorist campaign being waged by Saddam Hussein to drive international agencies from Iraqi Kurdistan; notes the recent grenade attack on a primary school feeding station used by the French aid agency Equilibre in its programme of providing meals for 30,000 Kurdish children; notes the bomb attack on a teashop in Darbandikhan on 16th May that severely injured 12 people; notes that on 9th May, after a prolonged artillery barrage, Iraqi troops attacked the Kurdish town of Uwaynah, only 15 miles from the Kurdish administrative centre in Erbil; notes that because donors have failed to provide sufficient funds 50 of the 236 United Nation Guards based in the area have been withdrawn and that the rest will reportedly follow by 15th June; notes that the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs appealed for $489 million to cover the aid and protection operations in Iraq from 1st April but has received less than $2 million; and calls for Her Majesty's Government or urgently focus international attention on these grave developments and for the British media to properly report them.

This motion has been signed by a total of 34 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Dale Campbell-Savours17/05/1993WorkingtonProposed
Glenda Jackson18/05/1993Hampstead & HighgateSigned
Lynne Jones18/05/1993Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Ken Livingstone18/05/1993Brent EastSigned
Michael Connarty18/05/1993Falkirk EastSigned
Frank Cook18/05/1993Stockton NorthSigned
John Cummings18/05/1993EasingtonSigned
Jim Dowd18/05/1993Lewisham WestSigned
Win Griffiths18/05/1993BridgendSigned
Harry Barnes18/05/1993North East DerbyshireSigned
Jack Thompson18/05/1993WansbeckSigned
Maria Fyfe19/05/1993Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
Mike Watson19/05/1993Glasgow CentralSigned
John Evans19/05/1993St Helens NorthSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie19/05/1993Glasgow, PollokSigned
Ronnie Campbell19/05/1993Blyth ValleySigned
Keith Bradley19/05/1993Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Keith Hill19/05/1993StreathamSigned
Ian Davidson19/05/1993Glasgow, GovanSigned
Colin Pickthall20/05/1993West LancashireSigned
Roland Boyes20/05/1993Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Mike Hall20/05/1993Warrington SouthSigned
Janet Anderson20/05/1993Rossendale & DarwenSigned
Dennis Turner20/05/1993Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Russell Johnston21/05/1993Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSigned
Richard Burden24/05/1993Birmingham, NorthfieldSigned
Derek Enright24/05/1993HemsworthSigned
Tony Worthington25/05/1993Clydebank & MilngavieSigned
Bill Michie26/05/1993Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Alex Carlile26/05/1993MontgomerySigned
Bryan Davies26/05/1993Oldham Central and RoytonSigned
Andrew Faulds26/05/1993Warley EastSigned
John Gunnell08/06/1993Leeds South and MorleySigned
Martyn Jones10/06/1993Clwyd South WestSigned

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