Feyli Kurds National Movement officially introduced their political party
Kurds with all its clans and tribes faced adversities from Ba’ath’s regime, Feylis’ share from Ba’ath under Sadam and his retinue’s government was only being massacred, murdered, dislocated, exiled to foreign countries and excluded from all their legal status.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – On Saturday, in a press conference in Baghdad the Feyli Kurds National Movement officially introduced themself as a political organization to participate in politics, and to represent the Feyli Kurdish community in both governments of Iraqi Federal and Kurdistan Region’s.
The President of the Feyli Kurds National Movement, Judge Munir Haddad stated in that press conference “the aim of the party is to unifying and organizing the Feylis’ word and political decision as well”
“To adjust and rearrange the Feylis Kurds’ home, as well as to work for the political, economic, social interests beside obtaining the human constitutional basics and legal rights” He added “for the Feylis to notice their own active role in Iraqi political field”
Feylis are Kurds, majority of them follow the Shiite sect in Islam, they used to live in Badra, Jassan Mandali, Kut, Naamania, Jalawla, also some in Khanaqin, but the majority lived in Baghdad, up until now there is a large area belongs to Kurdish Feylis in Baghdad.
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According to the sources another group of Feylis live in various places for examples Kermanshah, Qasr-e Shirin, Ilam as well as some others places as diasporic communities due to the genocide and massacre happened by the toppled Ba’ath and Sadam’s ruling.
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Kurds with all its clans and tribes faced adversities from Ba’ath’s regime, Feylis’ share from Ba’ath under Sadam and his retinue’s government was only being massacred, murdered, dislocated, exiled to foreign countries and excluded from all their legal status.
The former Ba’ath regime in the early 1980s launched a systematic ethnic cleansing campaign against Feylis, thousands were killed and others were exiled to Iran, stripped off their Iraqi citizenship.
Between 10000 and 20000 young Feylis estimated to have been killed by the former regime. Many Feylis, who are predominantly merchants and businessmen, were also stripped of their properties and assets.
It’s been documented that on April 4th, 1980, the Iraqi dictator government began a campaign of ethnic cleansing to Feyli Kurds in Baghdad, Diyala, Kut, Khanaqin, Jalawla, Numaniyah, Mandali, Naft Khana, Badra, Gassan, and many other places, nearly 600,000 Feyli Kurds were massacred.
Although the Iraqi High Tribunal in 2008 and the Iraqi Parliament in 2010 officially recognized the genocide of the Feyli Kurds, they have not been granted Iraqi citizenship nor compensated for the crimes committed against them.
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