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Shafaq News- Baghdad
Iraq’s parliamentary Security and
Defense Committee on Thursday recommended dismissing the commander of the Iraqi
Navy over alleged failures to protect Iraqi fishermen following last week’s
fatal shooting of a fisherman near the maritime border with Kuwait.
Committee member Mahmoud Faleh
Al-Sayyid said the decision followed a committee hearing with Navy Commander
Lt. Gen. Mazin Kbayan and other security officials. He attributed the
recommendation to proven negligence in the performance of duty and the alleged violations
the fishermen were subjected to.
Last week, Kuwaiti authorities
detained an Iraqi fishing boat and its five-member crew near the maritime
border. The fishermen were later returned through the Safwan border crossing
along with the slain fisherman’s body and another fisherman who was wounded in
the incident.
The shooting prompted demonstrations
outside the Kuwaiti consulate in Basra, where protesters demanded greater
protection for Iraqi fishermen operating in the northern Gulf.
Iraq’s Foreign Ministry previously
said it had raised the case with Kuwaiti authorities, who presented video
footage of the incident and maintained that their forces had not intended to
cause loss of life.