Christian members of Iraq’s Kurdistan province parliament are calling for autonomy for Christian areas in the north of the country, according to the London-based daily Al-Hayyat.
It is a democratic necessity that areas inhabited by a Christian majority should be autonomous, MP Kalawiz Ilda said.
The committee tasked with drafting the constitution stressed the rights of the Assyrians, a Christian minority in Iraq, and included them in the Kurdish constitution, Ilda said.
However, she added, the draft constitution did not detail these issues and she called for legislation detailing the rights of the Assyrians to run their own areas or grant them autonomy.
Christians in Iraq, also known as Assyrians or Chaldeans, constitute about three percent of the Iraqi population.