Yezidis, Barzanis, Garmian, Badinan Genocide, Anfal Aftermath, Kurds’ Agony

In the last two centuries’ genocides (known as Anfal campaign among Kurds), which happened to different Kurdish clans in cities and villages in Kurdistan Region, Hundreds thousand of Barzanis, Garmian, Badinan and Yezidis were murdered at different stages and under different times.

Camps for displaced Yezidis in Kurdistan Region. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Camps for displaced Yezidis in Kurdistan Region. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – “The life is miserable. We are still scattered in camps and cities. On the other hand, girls and women from Sinjar remain under ISIS,” Shakir Hayali, an internal displaced person from Sinjar, said “They should be rescued from ISIS, Yezidis in the camps have not been given much attention” 

Kurds as an independent, large ethnicity and a nation without an independent state in the middle east, have gone through series of genocides, as well as attacked by Mass-killing Chemical weapons.

From 1980s, when the toppled dictator Ba'ath regime committed a mass killing to Barzanis, Ba’ath’s army and troops didn’t hesitate murdering them in groups. 

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In the last two centuries’ genocides (known as Anfal campaign among Kurds), which happened to different Kurdish clans in cities and villages in Kurdistan Region, Hundreds thousand of Barzanis, Garmian, Badinan and Yezidis were murdered at different stages and times. 

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Mass-murdering Kurdish people, has a live-agony impact on the two generation followed those appalling campaigns, from Barzanis genocide until the very recent one in 2014, Yezidis at the hand of terrorist ISIS. 

After passing several decades, ten thousand of orphans, disabled, and women extremely suffered. 

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There are hundred thousands of witnesses and researches approve the tragic sequences of the appalling physical and mental suffering the families who were left behind go through.

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A decade has passed by since Yezidis genocide occurred at the hand of terrorist ISIS, resident from Sinjar who are displaced, living in the camps, waiting for the normalization of the situation back in their city and to be returned to their homes.

It has reached such a deadlock making displaced Yezidis see no hopes to go back to their place of origin. Therefore, they find it safer to stay in the camps than to return to a devastated and militarized area.

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The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the Iraqi Ministry of Migration and Refugees held a joint conference with a delegation of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Iraq and Kurdistan Region.

KRG and humanitarian Organizations are certainly working to restore peace to the region and for the internal displaced people to return to their homes. 

The Head of Information and Communications at the Interior Ministry's Joint Crisis Center, Ali Saeed said “the refugee camps will not be closed randomly, but the camps will continue” 

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has been cooperating and coordinating with the Iraqi government and the United Nations over the past 10 years, to resolve the problems of the people and refugees of Sinjar, so they can return to their homeland.