There are two military officer's' training colleges in Kurdistan The Qala Cholan College in Sulaimani and The Zakho1 Military Academy in Zakho. This project is funded through the U.S. Government's appropriated Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund (IRRF) and administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region North (USACE-GRN) for the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I). USACE-GRN issued contract task order W916QW-05-D-0008-0001, an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract task order on 20 December 2004. (See: OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION ZAAKKHO MIILLIITTAARRYY ACAADEEMYY. ZAAKKHO, IIRRAAQ, SSI IIGGI IIRR PPAA-06-039; April 12, 2006). Earlier, in July 1992, the National Assembly had passed a decree allowing for the reinstatement to their former positions of military, police and security personnel who had been removed from their posts or transferred to civilian duties by the Iraqi authorities `because of their links with the Kurdish liberation movement.' The following March, Law No. 8 of 1993 was passed, which allowed for the recruitment into the unified armed forces of veteran Peshmerga officers, provided that they had not `deviated from the aims of the revolution and collaborated with the enemies of the Kurdish liberation movement'. By 29 October 1993 the unified armed forces had reached some 35,000 in number, according to the Minister for Peshmerga Affairs, Jabbar Farman. He told Amnesty International at the time that the KDP and PUK had each contributed 15,000 armed fighters, with the remaining 5,000 coming from several smaller political parties. A military college had been established in Qala Cholan (Sulaimani province) at the end of 1991, although this was essentially a PUK rather than an IKF establishment (see Refworld | Human Rights Abuses in Iraqi Kurdistan Since 1991. http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6a9e94.html).
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