KDP official condemns decades of Feyli Kurd genocide, calls for action

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) - Forty-four years have passed since the genocide of the Feyli Kurds. Meanwhile, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Baghdad will hold an event on the issue, and the head of the fifth branch of the party says that the Feyli Kurds have constantly faced oppression and genocide since the establishment of the Iraqi state.

Azad Shafi, head of the fifth branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), told Kurdistan24 on Thursday that, “21 years after the fall of the Baath regime, which committed genocide against the Feyli Kurds, there remains number of laws and decrees of the previous regime that are still in use today in the new Iraq.”

The head of the fifth branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) pointed out that the Feyli Kurds have been facing oppression and genocide since the establishment of the Iraqi state in the past 100 years.

Azad Shafi said that the Baath regime first deprived the Feylis of their identity, then deported them in stages, and then committed genocide against them in 1981, executing 22,000 people whose bodies have not been returned to their families. The responsibility lies with the Iraqi government.

Azad Shafi stressed that regarding the Feyli Kurds, the Iraqi constitution and Article 140 have not been implemented.

The genocide of the Feylis began on April 4, 1980, and continued until 1990. To justify its atrocities, the Supreme Leadership Council issued decisions and implemented its crimes and violations through several orders and documents.

On December 21, 2008, the case of the Feylis was referred to the Iraqi High Criminal Court. On November 29, 2010, after 44 hearings, the court recognized the genocide of the Feylis.