The NGO warns the Kurdistan regional government against imposing "collective punishment to entire Arab communities" to the violence perpetrated by the Organization Islamic state.
This young is explained as discrimination, "this man is Arabic, it is Kurdish. If Kurdish, no problem, go inside. If Arabic, big problem. "
According to AFP, said he listed the "likely discriminatory practices" in the provinces of Nineveh and Irbil during visits in December and January.
Two Kurds displaced by the fighting were able to return, but they live in houses that previously belonged to the Arabs:
"There are no Arabs. They ran off, so we stayed in their homes, "said the first Kurdish.
"The peshmerga have taken me far in an Arab house and they told me I could stay there," says the second.
Letta Tayler, a researcher for Human Rights Watch says his side "Kurdish military forces have recently begun to relax these restrictions in some areas they control in northern Iraq, but must do more."
According to HRW, some Kurdish officials have defended Discrimination on the grounds that the Sunni Arab inhabitants of the region had supported the offensive jihadists and always collaborating with the Organization Islamic state.
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