Duhuk displaced families registered to receive damages

DUHUK / IraqiNews.com: Displaced families in the Iraqi province of Duhuk on Monday will begin registering with local authorities to receive financial compensation, a local official said. “A total of 4.5 million Iraqi dinars (1 U.S. dollar= 1,118 Iraqi dinars) will be paid in compensation to each family that was forced to leave Duhuk as a result of acts of violence,” Mohammed Abdullah Hammo from the displacement and migration department told IraqiNews.com. Also spelled Duhok , Dohuk Dehok or Dahok ; it is a city in the far northern part of Iraq to the borders with Turkey. It has about 500,000 inhabitants, mostly consisting of Kurds and Assyrians. According to some sources, the name “Duhuk” comes from Kurmanji Kurdish meaning “small village”. Circled by mountains along the Tigris river, Duhuk, the third province with Iraq’s Kurdistan region, has a growing tourist industry. Its population grew extremely since the 1990s as the rural population moved to the cities. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States, Duhuk and Iraqi Kurdistan in general have remained the only safe places for foreigners. SS (S) 2