§ Lord Hyltonasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether the forced internal deportations from their homes and land in 1988 to 1990 of Iraqi Kurds, constitute a breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, especially Articles 45, 49 and 147.
The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (The Earl of Caithness)The Fourth Geneva Convention covers the case of those who find themselves in the hands of a party to a conflict or occupying power of which they are not nationals. The treatment of Iraqi Kurds by their own government contravenes international humanitarian obligations accepted by the Government of Iraq.