INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Shafaq News/ Diyala's eastern sub-district of Mandali has been under the administration of an acting director for five years and locals
demand assigning a permanent director in accordance with Iraqi law, activist Omar Adel said on Friday."The locals demand ending the term of
the interim director and allowing the candidates to run for the post," Adel said in a statement to Shafaq News Agency.Mandali, 93 kilometers
to the northeast of Baqubah, is the historic hometown of the Fayli Kurdish minority
However, systemic persecution, displacement, and killing by the former regime in the 1980s have mutilated the demographic and cultural
features of the city."After forming a cabinet and assigning the ministers to their portfolios, the government should heed Mandali's needs
and appoint a director from its people," he explained."The long history of Mandali's sufferings is not a secret, amid suspicious silence
from the Iraqi government," he continued.The acting director of the sub-district, Maazen Akram al-Khozai, upheld the demands of Mandali's
people."We took over in response to the commands of the higher authorities," he said, "an acting director has more burden, but enjoys less
