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1631-HQ-1462938 September 19, 1987, from Shaqlawa District Security Committee to a number of local party and police agencies. These documents are referenced in footnote 51 of the HRW report dated July, 1993, "Prelude to Anfal" section. At the meeting, preparations for the national census were discussed. "Subversives who repent" were to be allowed to return to the fold right up to the day of the census. No returnees would be accepted after October 17, 1987, however, "even if they surrender their weapons." Furthermore, family members of "unrepentant saboteurs" could not remain in government-controlled areas and were to be physically removed and forced to join "saboteur kin" in prohibited areas. Upon completion of an AL-MAJID ordered inventory of cases, "the families in question should be expelled to the regions where their subversive relatives are, with the sole exception of males aged between 12 and 50 inclusive, who should be detained." One of the documents list the ages as 17 to 50. According to pages 18-19 of the HRW report dated July, 1993, "Prelude to Anfal" Section, the Northern Bureau ordered mass seminars and meetings to discuss the importance of the census scheduled for October 17, 1987. Those who failed to participate in the census without a valid excuse would lose their Iraqi citizenship and would be regarded as army deserters, and as such, subject to RCC decree #677, dated August 26, 1987. Additionally, those not participating in the census were no longer eligible for government services and food rations as they would no longer be considered Iragis. With respect to identifying ethnicity in the census, individuals could only choose one of two options, Arab or Kurd. Furthermore, people could only be counted if they made themselves available to the census takers. For anyone living in a prohibited area, this meant abandoning their home and registering and living as a resident of a government-controlled town or mujama'a. On October 18, 1987, the Northern Bureau Command issued letter Number 1216 to remind all Security Committees and Security Directorates, in the Governates of the Autonomous Zone and the Governates of Diyala and Salah Al-Din of Directive 4008. AL-ANI signed this letter which is referenced on page 19 and footnote 58 of the HRW report dated July, 1993, "Prelude to Anfal" section. HRW described the letter, issued the day after the census, aS a stern memo to all security committees in Kurdistan, reminding them that aerial inspection would ensure that Directive 4008 of June 20, 1987, was being carried out "to the letter." Any committee that failed to comply would "bear full 40