Fayli Kurds Struggle in Iraq
26/01/2012 By: Jasim Alsabawi
Baghdad's old Al-Kifah neighbourhood where many Fayli Kurds live. Photo Rudaw.
BAGHDAD -- The Faylis of Iraq consider themselves Kurds. Their distinct Kurdish dialect differs from Sorani and Kirmanji the same way Iraqi colloquial Arabic changes from one province to another.
The Faylis suffered enormously at the hands of Iraq’s former Baath regime. They were branded as Iranians by Baghdad and expelled en masse from the country in the 1970s; they weren’t even allowed to sell their properties or take any belongings with them.
Now, many Faylis feel they are manipulated by Iraqi politicians trying to win over their vote. They don’t have a political party to represent them and thus have a sense of injustice in the new Iraq.
Muhammad Ali, deputy director of the Fayli Cultural Organization, told Rudaw, “I attended a conferences for Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in which he spoke about the oppression of the Fayli Kurds. He talked about launching a satellite or a local TV channel to air our voices, but we haven’t seen any of those pledges fulfilled because they were simply election promises and nothing more.”
Ali added, “He only wanted to win our votes in the elections. He didn’t care about us.”
According to some estimates by local NGOs, around one million Fayli Kurds live in Baghdad today, mainly in the neighborhoods of Jamila, Sadr City, Al-Jumhuriye, Kifah Street and other areas.
After the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003, many Fayli families returned to Iraq. In their absence, their homes and properties were occupied by other Iraqis who had government permission to live in their homes. Ever since, these families have been fighting through Iraq’s intricate bureaucracy to reclaim their properties, but it has proven a real challenge.
Ali believes it’s the government’s fault that their properties have not been returned to them yet.
“The biggest problem is the current government which isn’t solving the property disputes of the Fayli Kurds,” he said. “The Fayli Kurds returned to their homes after 35 years of displacement only to find their houses occupied by strangers who refuse to leave.”
In 2003, under the Coalition Provision Authority (CPA), Iraq founded a committee to settle property disputes. However, Ali said that neither that committee nor private lawyers have been able to settle the issue for the Faylis.
“We ask the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to pressure the Iraqi government to solve our property disputes,” he said.
Majeed Abbas, 60, returned to Iraq after the US invasion of Iraq and founded his home occupied by someone else. Now, Abbas said, this other family is demanding he buy the property back from them.
“When I came back to my old house, the person who was living there asked me to pay him 50 million Iraqi Dinars (approximately US$40,000) simply because he had built a second bathroom in it. As if it wasn’t enough that he had been living in my house for more than 30 years for free,” Abbas said.
Ahmed Najdat, 36, a Fayli grocer on Baghdad’s old Kifah Street, believes that despite the distance that separates them from the Kurdistan Region, the Faylis of Iraq feel they are part of Kurdistan.
“The Kurds are our representatives because we do not have anybody who to represent us in the Iraqi Parliament or the government,” Najdat said. “We consider the Kurdistani bloc to be representative of all Kurds.”
After several years of failed attempts to reclaim their homes and a sense of disappointment in Iraq’s political parties, some Faylis have started to reconsider their situation.
Majid Abdulqadir, 44, a butcher, blamed the Faylis themselves for their current situation, saying that they haven’t tried to get their own representation in the Parliament or the government.
“Our votes are divided over different political parties and sects,” Abdulqadir said. “We cannot get social services in Kifah Street if wanted to because we do not have representatives. The Kurds who are in the Parliament represent the Kurdish region. We have nobody to represent us in Baghdad.”
Abdulqadir believes lack of political experience among Faylis is another reason for their plight.
“The Fayli Kurds do not have the political awareness to see their own interests and they lack the political experience to be able to vote for the right person,” he said. “We had many Fayli candidates but they did not get enough votes due to division among us and the lack of awareness.”
Fayli neighborhoods are considered among the poorest in all of Iraq and lack basic services such as sanitation, roads and health care.
Selma Ashur Saqir, director of the Fayli Women’s Cultural Organization in the Jamil quarter, believes the Fayli Kurds -- especially women -- have the fewest opportunities to find employment.
“We believe as Fayli Kurds that we have fewer chances than others in getting jobs or employment due to marginalization by both Kurds and Arabs,” she said. “The Kurds refer us to the central government and the central government refers us to the Kurdistan Region. So we suffer and don’t have the same rights as others.”
Source: Rudaw.net/ By: Jasim Alsabawi
35 Faili Kurd families return to Iraq
19/01/2012 18:32 Aknews
Faili Kurds, who mainly hold the Shiite faith, were accused of being
In the 1980s, the Iraqi government deported up to 400,000 Faili Kurds, mainly Shiite adherents who mainly lived in Baghdad and the Diyala province, on the pretext that they were not Iraqi citizens. Their properties were seized as well as being stripped of their legal documents and citizenship.
Many of the Faili Kurds sought refuge in Iran, European countries and Australia. Since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, dozens of Faili families in Iran have returned to their country of origin.
The Fayli Kurds, who are an ethnic subgroup of Kurds and mostly Shiite Muslims, were subjected to all kinds of hardships under Hussein’s Sunni Muslim dominated government: imprisonment, torture, rape and deportation among them. Source: ekurd.
“After nearly 30 years of displacement, about 35 Faili Kurd famiies have returned to Iraq.” Mr Doski told AKnews, “10 of the families are originally from Baghdad while the rest are from Diyala province”
Mr Doski said last week that the Iraqi government, through the Ministry of Immigration, had allocated about US$1.5 million in aids to Iraqi families living as refugees in Iran.
By Fryad Mohammed RY/Aknews
Tv program in Feyli dialect every Friday
Faili-kurd 19.01.2011
We Feyli is tv show that airs live on Newroz Tv every friday at 18:00 GMT/21:00 Baghdad/21:30 Tehran. Every saturday the show replays at 08:10 Baghdad/08:40 Tehran . We feyli is the program that deals with everyday general questions on Feyli, which is now missing.
The program is created and managed by Kak Hiwa Zandi. Kak Hiwa Zandi has a long and solidexperience in media-/journalistic. The program is broadcast every Friday. 19:00 Swedish time(21:00 Baghdad time) and will replay each Saturday. 10:10 Baghdad time)
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Bartella explosion targeting poople from the Shabak community
Shafaq News 17.02.2012
Security source said on Monday, that 15 people were killed and injured when a car bomb targeted a camp sheltering displaced from the Shabak in Nineveh province."A suicide car bomb targeted in the morning, a residential camp sheltering displaced people from the Shabakan community in Bartella division in Nineveh province, which led to the deaths of five people and wounding ten others."
The source said to "Shafaq News","A number of wounded who had received serious injuries were taken to Erbil in the Kurdistan Region to receive treatment.".
Shabak people are an ethnic and religious minority group living in northern Iraq, who live mainly in the villages of Ali Rash, Khazna, Yangidja, and Tallara in Sinjar district in the province of Ninawa in northern Iraq. Their language, Shabaki, is a Northwestern Iranian language very close to Gorani Kurdish. Their population was estimated at around 15,000 in the 1970s.,However it is believed to be more like 60,000 today. Shabaks consist of three different ta'ifs or sects: the Bajalan, Dawoody and Zengana (two Kurdish tribal confederations that also encompass some Shabak communities) and the Shabak proper. Shabaks follow an independent religion, related to but distinct from orthodox Islam and Christianity. It is also claimed that they are descendants of Qizilbash from the army of Shah Ismail.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Talib Murad: If the Failis had a place in Kurdistan, they would build a city similar to Sulaymaniyah
Shafaq News 29.december 2011
Our guest this time lived the atmosphere of the difficult circumstances for years .He is the head of the Food Security Advisors to the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government. In this meeting we try to open our eternal files with him.
Q / What prevents you from joining under the name of defending the identity of the Kurds and the presence of Faily Kurds? Is it politics? Or lack of motivation and desire? Or what?
A/ Yes this is true and we are working silently because the areas in which we work are the areas of art and they have nothing to do with politics or issues of the Faily Kurds , but that does not make us forget that we are all Kurds and then Failis and then Shiites and working in silence is not the lack of motivation or desire, but we have no strong desire. We feel it more than any other person of the sect, but people who cooperate and work with them and who are here now in Kurdistan need the so-called, in my opinion a new framework " generations intercommunication," I say that there is a problem in the of intercommunication of generations and we, we the Failis are supposed, to understand it , and presumably the politicians (ancient) in Kurdistan to understand, because the new generation does not know anything about the Faily Kurds at all.
Talib Murad; Food Security Advisor to the President of the KRG
Q / What can the Faily Kurds do to break the deadlock and put their feet on the ground and have their voices heard? Let's be clear and serious
A/ Introducing is a part of our duty we Failis,because the blocs that have emerged on the political scene, especially those of religious nature and it is natural that some Failis are affected by It . It true that it is the right of man to join any party he wants. I for example, as the Chancellor of the Prime Minister for matters of food and agriculture security, have no relationship to our cause, but this does not prevent me to stand and speak on issues of my segment because I can see their oppression more than anyone else. And we have a big problem because we do not get anything whether from the Government Center or Kurdistan as the Egyptian (we came out of the Prophet’s Birthday without chic-pea)
Q / you as having a connection with the people and the disputed lands do you try to draw attention to the their issue for the politicians who do not see it, except on the basis of domination?
A/ Of course, these regions are affected more than others because we have between us and Iran about 44 rivers and creeks whose water had been cut off and all the damage fell on us , and the political personnel at their meeting with the Prime Minister or any minister does not speak about the lands and water cutting . They only talk about other secondary issues .The Faily Kurds have a history of the dark kind, and they should accept the change, I say that the most important thing for them is to build their city in Grimian or in the disputed areas under Article 140 because they have all the possibilities.
Q / How do you anticipate future prospects for the Kurds in general and the Faily Kurds in particular?
A/ There is a fact which no one paid attention to it , that the Kurds inside the Arab Iraq, make up the second nationality, which is mostly Faily Kurds , if, we are second nationality in Arab Iraq, and this thing is very important, despite all the disasters and tragedies that we witnessed , and in spite of murder, the deportation and displacement did not disappear in overnight. As for the new changes in the region I say they are a major scourge and we can not talk about them now, but I am very optimistic that things will go for the better, because of the blessing of the youth.
Shafaq News 22.12.2011
The University of Baghdad revealed Wednesday, for nearness of the addition of a university teaching material dealing with crimes committed by the former regime against the Faily Kurds."The department has agreed to add the extermination of the Faily Kurds to the material of (human rights and democracy) in the first stage of university teaching.” Yusra Mohammed Abdullah, the teacher in the Kurdish language department at the University of Baghdad said to "Shafaq News".
Faily Kurds elected a general Sheik to their tribes in Iraq
Shafaq News 13.12.2011
Faily Kurds tribes gathering in Iraq, announced Monday, the election of a general Sheikh in them to unite under the name " Faily Kurds clan ", stressing on non affiliation of the clan to any political orientation.Sheikh-General of the Faily Kurds clan in Iraq Safa, a Hafidh Ghulam said in an interview with "Shafaq News" that "The elders of Faily Kurds clans gathered in the Ahmadi Husseiniyah in the Kifah neighborhood in the central Baghdad with the Kurdish majority, has been holding an election through which 11 Sheikhs of Branches have been named , and a general Sheik and a deputy to him, "calling" Faily Kurds to register in the Register-General of the clan in, Al-Ahmadi Husseiniyah . "
He said that "The Sheiks of branches (thighs) are: Abdul Amir Murad Ali, Fakhri Ismail Ibrahim, Falih Idan , Hussein Mohammed Ali, Sae'id Ghulam Ali, Talib Beck, Abbas Jassim Wali , Latif Tawfiq Mohammed, Abdul-Karim Ahmed Ali, Canaan Ja'afar Abdul-Rahman, Zahid Assad Minna, "noting that" we did not resort to name the by the names of their clans to unite them under one label, and to avoid stirring of the sensitivity and discrimination. "
The Sheik-General of the Faily Kurds indicated that " A fund have been allocated for contributions and social assistance, and the nomination of Secretaries to it , namely: Ibrahim Ismail, and Majid Wahab," pointing out that "the money of the Fund is collected from members of the tribes enrolled in the public record through the payment of monthly contributions by the 1000 Iraqi dinars for each individual. "
Lip-sewing protester taken to hospital
Kurdiu.org November 2011
One of the three Kurdish asylum seekers in Darwin who sewed his lips together has been taken to hospital and ended his protest.
The three Faili Kurdish men housed in the Darwin immigration detention centre began their protest on Monday last week, when they sewed their lips together.
Although the group were still drinking sweet tea and water, this ended early Monday, when they began refusing fluids.
A Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) spokeswoman on Tuesday said one of a group who had been protesting was taken to hospital on Monday night.
"One detainee last night ended his protest action and he was transported to hospital for further treatment," she said.
She said the other two men protesting with him have continued their vigil but added that food and water were on hand at all times.
On Wednesday last week another group at the Darwin detention centre began a hunger strike.
Although DIAC has refused to say how many people are part of the group of hunger strikers, the spokeswoman said a small number of those involved in that protest were seen eating on Monday night.
It is understood the three Faili Kurdish men who sewed their lips together are angry that they have been in detention for up to 22 months without news on what their fate will be.
The men have been deemed by authorities to be stateless, and it is understood they cannot be repatriated to their homelands, despite their applications for asylum being rejected.
Faili Kurds come from a region straddling the border of Iraq and Iran.
On the same day the lip-sewing protest began, two other Kurdish detainees overdosed and were taken to hospital, where they were treated then returned to detention.
Source: ninemsn.com.au
Source: Al Ittihad newspaper, 7/12/2011
The election of secretarial new post to provide members of the secretarial old resignation was accepted by a majority vote by the Central Council, and is well known that the Central Council is a parliamentary party and watching the performance of the political institutions of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which was introduced by decision of the Third Conference of the Party and elected members were (101) shall direct secret in the General Conference of the party.
Mr. Adel Murad is one of the founders of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (1975) and held various responsibilities of the party, most recently a member of the Political Bureau of the Union and who has not run for the leadership in the last conference held in June 2010.
It is worth mentioning that the recent elections to the Central Secretariat of the Council took place in March, from 3/12/2011.
Source: Al Ittihad newspaper, 7/12/2011
Head of KDP's Baghdad Branch: The Number of Kurds in Baghdad is Wrongly Inflated
By SALAM SAADI and HEVIDAR AHMED-Rudaw 2011
Muhammed Amin Daloyee is the head of the Baghdad branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) that is the party of the president of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani. After the US invasion of Iraq, Daloyee returned from Berlin with the hope of working and connecting with the Kurdish population that lived in the Iraqi capital.
Muhammed Amin Daloyee, head of KDP's 5th branch in Baghdad. Photo Rudaw.
After several years of political activity in Baghdad, Daloyee reached a point where he would call his initial ambition an illusion. He saw it with his own eyes how the Kurds of Baghdad didn’t throw their support behind the Kurdish parties in the last general elections.
Daloyee blamed it all on the inflation of the number of Kurds in the city more than anything else.
“Our media in Kurdistan doesn’t talk about the realities of Baghdad,” said Daloyee. “When I first came to Baghdad in 2004 I thought there were around two millions Kurds, but I was shocked at the numbers of Kurds who participated in the elections of 2005.”
Kurdistan’s two main parties the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) opened their offices in the capital right after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime. But Daloyee believes that they haven’t done what needs to be done with regards to the Kurds of Baghdad.
Those who say there are many Faili Kurds in Baghdad are not telling the truth
Daloyee’s office started an investigation to at least find out the true number of members of both political parties. Initially he had been told that the KDP had around twenty thousand members and the PUK at least ten thousand. In the end though, he had found out those numbers had been greatly inflated.
“We started meeting with our smaller branches and sorted them based on their geographical locations,” said Daloyee. “After thorough investigations we discovered that out of 20 thousand members, only 3000 of them wear real. The rest were imaginary figures.”
Daloyee said that the method he had taken to find out an accurate figure of party members could also work for the larger Kurdish community of Baghdad. He and his staff applied the method.
“We asked all the KDP members to report the number of the Kurdish families who reside in their neighborhoods and we also formed a committee to investigate the accuracy of the data we get from them,” said Daloyee. “Our survey took eight months and the result was; within the borders of Baghdad, live only 13 thousand families.”
The research of Daloyee’s office that was completed in 2006 covered all corners of Baghdad. If an average family was made of five members then the Kurds of Baghdad number around 65 thousand in total according to their findings.
The idea about a huge Kurdish population in Baghdad always evolved around Faili Kurds who were thought to number around one million. But Daloyee said that even that figure was not accurate. Besides, many of those Faili Kurds who used to live in the capital fled during the sectarian violence and they have not returned yet. Others have simply left the country to go to Iran or Europe.
“Those who say there are many Faili Kurds in Baghdad are not telling the truth,” said Daloyee. “In 2005 when the security situation was very bad in Baghdad, many Kurds left. For example, my relatives were 75 families, they all left Baghdad. Security does not exist yet in Baghdad. There is no electricity and the level of unemployment is much higher compared to Iraqi Kurdistan.”
I have said many times that the Iraqi brain is on vacation and has not returned yet
In the 1970s Iraq expelled tens of thousands of Faili Kurds from Baghdad and other Iraqi cities under the pretext that they were Iranian nationals. Some of those families returned after Saddam Hussein’s regime was toppled in 2003, but according to Daloyee they didn’t have an easy time and weren’t able regain their lost property.
“They could not regain their seized properties. They were not given proper IDs,” said Daloyee. “And those who already have established a new life for themselves are in no need to come back to this chaotic and lifeless Baghdad. Therefore, with total confidence I am telling you that not even a single one of them has returned.”
The Kurds of Baghdad have in the past several years fallen victim to the seatrain violence and the random bombings of markets and public places. Daloyee said that the inability of the Kurdish parties in Baghdad to provide security for those Kurds cost them those people’s support.
“The reason for this is the fact that we cannot provide them with protection here,” said Daloyee. “We cannot satisfy everybody here. So the existence of some Kurds who vote for others is possible, but their numbers are so small that it would not affect our election scores.”
Daloyee was clearly upset with unrealistic view of the staff of the KDP branch in Baghdad about the number of Kurds in the capital and their allegiance to Kurdish parties.
“When I asked people in this KDP branch about the number of Kurds in Baghdad, they said four millions,” said Daloyee. “How many of them are loyal? They are all loyal and they will vote for us, they said. So, if we have that many Kurds in Baghdad, why not forget about Article 140 and demand Baghdad instead, I told them.”
According to Daloyee ignorance and nationalistic sentiment is to blame for misreading the Kurdish weight in Baghdad. If the numbers were that great as many people claim, said Daloyee, then more Kurds should have been seen on the streets of Baghdad.
“These numbers they talk about are imaginary because of ignorance and mostly national sentiments,” said Daloyee. “I have said many times that the Iraqi brain is on vacation and has not returned yet. This is a very funny claim that half of Baghdad is Kurdish. If it is so then every Arab family must have a Kurdish neighbor. Every other car on the street is driven by a Kurd.”
Daloyee argued that such claims didn’t go well with logic. Proof was needed.
“It is not possible for half of Baghdad’s population to be Kurds yet you don’t get to see Kurds on the street. If those claims were true, then half of the Mahdi army must be Kurds,” said Daloyee laughingly. “If you say half of Baghdad are Kurds yet you don’t get their votes in the elections, we should then say they are all traitors.”
Faili Kurds, unlike the majority of Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan who are Sunnis, follow the Shiite faith of Islam and that fact has been blamed in the past for their low turnout to vote for the Kurdish parties. It is said that for them their religious sect comes before their Kurdish identity. But Daloyee rejected such claims and said that once again rationality and statistics were missing.
“We have to deal with numbers here. If for instance we have 100 thousand Faili Kurds in Baghdad, a big percentage of them will be under 18 years of age and not eligible to vote,” said Daloyee. “If %30 of them are under 18 then we have around 70 thousand voters left. If we look closer we will see that in the last elections the participation rate was less than fifty percent which means what is left is 35 thousand voters.”
They were misinformed by thinking that it was just the fault of the PUK and KDP
Daloyee pointed the finger of blame to both politicians and the media for not doing anything to deliver these facts to the people.
“Unfortunately many of us know these facts,” said Daloyee. “But neither our media talks about it nor have honest attempts been made by the people here to deliver these facts to our leaders.”
The inaccurate information given to Daloyee before starting his work in Baghdad and his own findings about the true size of Kurds there made him question his presence and that of his party in the capital.
“Honestly, this is a very nice question,” said Daloyee. “When I learned the facts I too asked myself the same question. But then you know that we as the KDP held our first conference here in Baghdad. This is the capital and our work is not necessarily all nationalistic. It is political as well.”
One other duty that justifies Daloyee’s assignment in Baghdad is trying to give a good image of the Kurds to people and politicians in the capital where wrong ideas have been spread about the Kurds in the past.
“In the beginning some parties here had very chauvinistic and narrow-minded ideas about us, they were saying that Kurds are secessionists and their demands are very unrealistic,” said Daloyee. “We can change these impressions of the central cadres of these Arab political parties and show them that we are not a destabilizing factor.”
Daloyee said that the future of the Kurds of Baghdad matter to his party. They will keep their office in the capital and despite their findings about the true size of the Kurds there, they will still run in future elections to preserve their votes.
“We are also present for the future of the 100 thousand Kurds who are living here and for their young children who are under the age of 18,” said Daloyee. “We will participate and work on preserving the 20 thousand votes that we have. We must not let these votes go to others.”
In the 2010 general elections the Gorran opposition movement was in Baghdad. They took part in the elections enthusiastically and criticized the PUK and the KDP for failing to win the Kurds of Baghdad. Daloyee met with the Gorran members in Baghdad and told them that their optimism may well be based on the same inaccurate figures about the Kurds that he himself had heard.
I talked to them when they first came to Baghdad and congratulated them,” said Daloyee. “I told them that their gain is still a gain for us because they are Kurds, too. I also told them that they were misinformed by thinking that it was just the fault of the PUK and KDP and that they should consider numbers and not only nationalistic sentiments about the existence of two million Kurds in Baghdad.”
From the very beginning of the works of his office, said Daloyee, he has made clear to the Kurds of Baghdad that he isn’t there to serve the PUK or the KDP. His work is rather to keep the Kurdish community together.
However, there are politicians according to Daloyee who would use the Kurdish issue in elections for political gains.
“We said to all those who manipulate the Faili issue that our work in Baghdad is neither related to the KDP nor PUK,” said Daloyee. “We invited the Kurdish community in Baghdad to join us and work together. We gave them various opportunities. But believe me there are some people who use the Kurdish identity and issue as a commodity.”
In the end Daloyee said if some Faili Kurds have cancelled their membership in the Kurdish parties and if ordinary Failis are not enthusiastic about Kurdish politics, it could also be because the Kurdish government cannot do much for them in Baghdad.
“The KRG has no power in Baghdad to create projects, construct toads, and install electric generators for the people and give them job opportunities,” said Daloyee. “These are the basic rights of the citizens, and the duty of the Iraqi government.”
After the Kurdish uprising of 1991 that led to the creation of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, some Faili Kurds returned to the region. According to Daloyee those people were assisted with identity cards and all other means of life for an easy resettlement--something the Failis of Baghdad haven’t received.
Displacement and Migration Ministry decisions for the resettlement of Faily Kurds
Shafaq 15.11.2011
The Ministry of Displacement and Migration, renewed on Sunday, its calling for the displaced Faily Kurds wishing to return to Iraq, to speed up the provision of their belongings to the relevant committee that was set up by the Ministry and sent to Iran to follow up their cases, citing that it issued many decisions to resettle them and solve their problems."The Ministry of Displacement and Migration, calls upon all displaced Faily Kurds who wish to return to Iraq to provide their belongings to the relevant committee sent by the ministry to Iran to follow up the issues of displaced people." The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Displacement and Migration Asghar Musawi said to "Shafaq News.
Shafaaq
The Ministry of Displacement and Migration said, earlier, they are in constant touch with the Faily Kurds already in Iran for the purpose of urging them to return to Iraq, indicating that the ministry continues to provide more services to this category, where a committee was formed in the Nationality Directorate to provide these services and return the identity cards that the previous regime took from them.
"The ministry had set up two committees, the first on the orders of the Council of Ministers to follow up the issues of Faily Kurds, and the second sent to Iran to discuss with the Iranian side in the mechanisms of repatriation of the displaced." Said he, pointing out that "The Department of Immigration had adopted several resolutions, including giving the land to the displaced to provide housing, as well as providing financial grants and work with the educational parties in order to offset their children certificates to attend school in Iraq.
| National - Over 22,000 Faili Kurds deported from Iraq: PM Aswat al-Iraq 03.11.2011 | |
| Erbil November, 03 (PNA) - Over 22,000 Faili Kurds had been deported from Iraq by the former regime, calling for the restoration of their rights, Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has said. | |
Kurdish Officials Press Baghdad For Khanaqin Refinery
By. Nawzad MahmoudRudaw.net 16.10.2011
Kurdish officials are appealing to Baghdad to open a refinery in Khanaqin a Kurdish-majority city near the Iranian border which they claim holds vast untapped oil and gas reserves.
Hassan Jihad, an Iraqi MP from Khanaqin in Diyala province, told Rudaw that Baghdad’s argument that Khanaqin’s oil and gas sector is too small for investment is unfounded. He plans to press the ministry of oil and the cabinet to bring back a refinery to Naft Khana, arguing, “We do not want the oil and the gas of this region to be wasted anymore.”
“The amount of gas in Khanaqin is very large and it is burning in vain,” he said. “The amount of gas wasted daily in Khanaqin is enough to produce 100 megawatts of electricity, and we can produce 17,000 barrels of oil from Naft Khana.”
Naft Khana was the first oil field to be discovered in Iraq, in 1923. According to Ali Hasan Balo, a former MP who sat on the oil and gas committee, crude oil was refined in the Naft Khana oil fields in the early 1980s until the central government centralized refining operations in Beji in central Iraq in 1984.
Naft Khana’s crude oil is now transported to Baghdad through pipelines for refining.
According to Jihad, there are other oil wells around Khanaqin that were also ignored by both the former and current Iraqi governments.
“The people in Naft Khana are living in terrible conditions because they lack services. The Iraqi cabinet must bring services to the people of the region and revive the area,” Jihad said.
“Khanaqin has one of the best qualities of gas and crude oil. The crude oil is light therefore it needs a separate refinery,” Balo said.
Balo said when he served on the oil and gas committee, he asked the Iraqi government several times to re-open the refineries.
“They refused under the pretext that Naft Khana produces only 8,000 barrels a day, but this isn’t true,” Balo said. “It can produce twice that number. There are some refineries in Iraq that have been set up to produce only 10,000 barrels a day; the whole issue is political and nothing more.”
Mahmoud Othman: Khanaqin is Kurdistanian
Shafaq15.10.11
Kurdistan Alliance bloc said that Khanaqin area is Kurdistanian and Nuri al-Maliki's decision of bringing the flag of Kurdistan down from the official buildings in the district comes in the midst of the tension that exists between the region and the federal government. The independent MP of the coalition of Kurdish blocs, Mahmoud Othman, said in an interview with "Shafaq News", "The decision of the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces Nuri al-Maliki to take down the flag of Kurdistan from official buildings in the district of Khanaqin comes in the midst of the tension that exists between the Region and the federal government,".
The head of the Diayala governorate council, Mr. Talib Mohammed said in a statement to "Shafaq News", the commander of the armed forces Nuri al-Maliki ordered the local authorities in the district of Khanaqin to drop the flag of Kurdistan from official government buildings, in the district, while the Mayor of Khanaqin declared, he refused the request of the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to take the Kurdistan flag down from all government buildings in the district .
"The Khanaqin area is Kurdistanian and the situation will not be affected if both Kurdistan and Iraqi flags are raised together," Othman added stressing that "this is part of the tension that existed between the parties before the coming of the governmental delegation from the Kurdistan region to Baghdad, and it was supposed not to do such action after the coming of the delegation."
Othman said that "The situation now between the parties is calm and there is a positive atmosphere, and the issues will be resolved through dialogue between the two sides."
It should be noted that the spokesman of the Kurdistan Regional Government Kawa Mahmoud expressed in a statement the support of the "government of the Region to Khanaqin authority decision of raising the Kurdistan flag over the government buildings in the district, noting that the action does not violate the federal permanent constitution.
The request of Maliki to take the Kurdistan flag down from the government buildings in Khanaqin came after the visit of a Kurdish high-level delegation to Baghdad and its meeting with political parties and officials including Maliki himself, and it came before an expected visit to be carried out by a government delegation headed by Barham Ahmed Saleh to Baghdad to discuss outstanding issues between Arbil and Baghdad, and the ways to solve them.
The area of Khanaqin is one of the disputed areas between Baghdad and Erbil in Article 142 of the Iraqi Constitution .It is inhabited by a Kurdish majority while Arabs and Turkmen ,inhabit it in varying degrees.
The worsening plight of the Faily Kurds
Shafaq News 17.09.11
Among the things suffered by the Faily Kurds in addition to the disaster of displacement and uprooting them from their homes and the arms of loved ones, is the confiscation of their property and interests by the former regime, as many of the Kurds were those who owned shops and factories and has assumed many important positions in business.
The former regime did not take that into account, but the repressive departments arrested them as the matter with others and confiscated those interests without compensation. We do not need to mention the large numbers of young Faily Kurds, who were made disappeared, and others who were executed or those who were separated from their parents to be thrown in the terrible cells of the Ba'ath.
After the fall of the dictatorial regime in 2003 the Faily Kurds welcomed it, hoping to regain their lost rights including their rights to recover their Iraqi citizenship stolen from them unfairly as well as their property rights, including housing, commercial and industrial interests, but that has witnessed some obstructions and the measures of implementation were so slow that it was inconsistent with the disaster magnitude.
The decision No. 426 of 2010 issued by the Council of Ministers came on the light of the Iraqi Supreme Criminal Tribunal, which counted the crimes of the dictatorial regime against the Faily Kurds as genocide against humanity as a gesture in line with the magnitude of the sacrifices made by Faily Kurds. Subsequently the Ministry of Human Rights announced that it took the initiative with the approval the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers to form a committee which included the Ministries of Justice, Finance, Immigration and displacement and the internal and Property Claims Commission. The aim of that committee was to make proposals and recommendations for the abolition of all resolutions of the former regime against Faily Kurds and the issue of the confiscated movable and immovable properties in addition to removing the negative effects that resulted from those decisions.
Also, a number of parliamentarians gathered in last mid-April, the signatures of MPs to vote on the cancellation of the decisions of dissolved Revolutionary Command Council, including resolutions 0.972 and 536, 413, 180, 518 and 666, 1468, 1194, 329 and 456 and 890 and 363 and 511 and 722 and 141 and 474, which included citizenship withdrawn from the Faily Kurds, their displacement and confiscation of their movable and immovable properties and other laws, decrees and instructions.
It can be said that in addition to the suffering that the afflicted Faily Kurds had because of the policies of the dictatorial regime and the slow procedures of redressing them by the new regime due to the bureaucracy and corruption rampant in the government departments, which impedes the completion of their transactions, they also suffer from poor government performance, which causes obstruction and postpone the necessary measures to meet the requirements of their lives and their needs, including issues of getting housing and work. So their suffering became compound because they on one hand they are suffering of the hampering procedures associated with regaining of their rights usurped by the former regime, and on the other hand they suffer from the inactivation of construction projects and reconstruction and the futility of the government's efforts to improve the rate of their of living reality , which led to the feeling of despair in the hearts of many, especially young people and led to not encourage many others to take the decision to return to Iraq from neighboring countries, as there are still a number of them who have not made up their mind yet about returning because of the situation is still not stable in the country.
Martyr's Day for Faili Kurds Martyr’s
Faili-kurd.com 31.03.2011
In memory of Faili Kurdish Martyr’s there are going to be held different ceremony’s in following cities in Sweden.
In the city hall of KISTA(Kista Träff)
The time (14:30) Sunday 03/04/2011
Among the speakers at the ceremony:
D. Hussein Amery, Iraq's ambassador to Sweden
D. Kazem Habib, a writer and political activist
Abeer Sahlani, a member of the Swedish Parliament
Poet and writer: Abdel Sattar Norali
Poet: Ibrahim Jahanbakhsh
Poet: Abdollahi Zadeh
Invitation is open to all.
Coordination Committee of Faili Kurds
The Faily issue inclusion within the parliament agenda
Shafaaq 28.03.2011
The Iraqi parliament approved in its meeting held Sunday, on the inclusion of the Faily Kurds issue within its agenda next month.
The MP from the Kurdish coalition blocs Barry Zadd Shaaban added in an interview with Shafaq :"The Iraqi Council of Representatives agreed on the inclusion of the Faily Kurds issue within its agenda in 04.04.2011 which comes across the anniversary day of the displacement of the Faily Kurds."
Faily voice unity guarantees the injustice ending
Shafaq 22.03.2011
Mr. Mohamed Ali Msaiyer Faily Vice President of Cultural Social Society for Faily Kurds in an interview with Shafaq affirmed :"Unity of the voice of the Faily Kurds would lift off the injustice on this segment, " adding :"The fault of our segment is the dispersion of their voices among parties, institutions and various organizations. "
Meanwhile, Mohamed Ali Faily called Faily Kurds segment to unite under one name, saying : " I call my segment children to unite under one name ,one component and one roof, regardless of their religious or party affiliation."
Preparations are in full swing in Khanaqin for Nowruz
Shafaq 21.03.2011
The Director of the Feminist Cultural and Media Center in Khanaqin said that preparations are in full swing to celebrate Nowruz.
Zainab Alarcoizi said in an interview with Shafaq :" Preparations are afoot to celebrate Nowruz, in the Kurdistani city of Khanaqin," pointing out :"The people of Khanaqin are preparing to go out for Nowruz Gala to embrace the natural beauty and charm because of its significant impact on the hearts of the people".
She added : "There is a zealous racing on this occasion among women of Khanaqin to wear the most beautiful and latest fashion Kurdish clothes, , which reflect the character and heritage of the Kurdistani city," asserting that "The celebrations which include cultural and artistic activities and sports ,will continue to the end of Mars.
Iraqi Pime Minster reiterates importance of Faili Kurds right
PUKMedia 25.08.10
Iraqi Prime Minster Nuri Al-Malki emphasized on the significance of securing the rights of
Faili Kurds and providing the care for them similar to all components of Iraqi people.
This came during Prime Minister’s reception of a delegation of General National
Congress of the Faili Kurds headed by Sheik Muhammad Saied Al-Naemi .
Al-Malki said the Iraqis became equal in the rights and duties and the dictatorship period
ended and today we are under the protection of freedom and democracy and there is no
discrimination between the
components of Iraqi people.
On their part, the delegation thanked Prime Minster for his care and attention to the Faili
Kurds in protecting their rights and meeting their needs and demands.
SHAFAQ.com
The site for Foundation for Culture and Media for Faily kurds is provided in English now!
Faili-kurd.com 23.07.10
The great Faili Kurdish site SHAFAQ.com has started to provide its readers in English. It is great news for all whom have interest in Faili Kurdish issue, Kurdistan and Iraq.
SHAFAAQ.com was before possible to read only in Arabic and Kurdish(Faili and Sorani).
Faili-kurd.com sends its congratulation to all whom are working within SHAFAAQ.
Read more her:
Faili-kurd.com
Khanaqin… 5 terrorists detaind by Garmiyan Asaish Forces
PUK media 22.07.10
The Asaish Forces in Khanaqin district arrested 5 terrorists involved in killing a police member and wounding 11 when the vehicle they were travelling in as part of a convoy struck an improvised explosive device (IED) downtown of Khanaqin district on July 22, 2010.
Reported by: Abas Hamid Rashid (PUKmedia-Arabic Edition)
Faili-kurd.com
Faraj al-Haidari's re-election as President of the Board of Commissioners of the Office of the elections
faili-kurd.com 15.7.2010
Board of Commissioners in the Electoral Commission for the elections has elected Mr. Faraj Al-Haidari a Faili Kurd as the President of the Board o Commissioners of the office of the election.
The Electoral Commission ran and organized a number of election processes since its formation in 2007 and supervised by the House of Representatives as a separate institution.
Faili-kurd.com
Shafaq.com Kafa Hadi 13.07.2010
Former deputy in the National Assembly Faiza Baba Khan said there will be a political decision that will be decisive for the return of the rights of the Faili Kurds.
And that these rights should not only pass through the courts, but needs political decision from the State which is in law the basis for the party to the conflict.
As mentioned Baba khan said: ‘’The command flag did not help the political decision to help restore the Faili Kurds of their rights and they are still suffering as non fully Iraqi citizens and the most important evidence is the denial of equal access to military high ranks and their use in military aviation as pilots.’’
Baba Khan said: ‘’The courts and judges can not obtain justice for the Faili Kurds in the restoration of their rights in the absence of laws that can pave the way for this segment to regain their rights.’’
For its part, said the Deputy Minister of Displacement and Migration Hamdiya Najaf told Shafaq.com: ‘’This court is not the only criterion for recovery Faili Kurds of their rights.’’
She said: ‘’There is a tremendous amount of problems stand in front restoring the rights of Faili Kurds and we need a package of laws and institutional work, which can help to reduce problems and obstacles for the return of the right of citizenship of the Faili Kurds in Iraq.’’
Regarding the government's position on the issue of Faili Kurds she said: ‘’I have discussed with the Prime Minister issue a State that with him in the case of Faili Kurds, and we are still waiting for the government and also promised to issue a decision denounced by the decisions taken during the former regime and provides for the return all the citizenship rights of Faili Kurds, including the moral and material possessions.’’
Prosecutor of the Court of Faili Kurds Abdul Qadir al-Hamdani told Shafaq.com that the date of the trial had been postponed from the date of 4 / 7 to 1 / 8 due to bring the accused to the courtroom.
He said: ‘’The prosecution will present its list and will be followed by a list of claimants Profile regulations and then the defense of the accused.’’
About the main accused in this case he said : ‘’One of the most prominent main suspects in this case are Sabawi and Watban and Saadoun Shaker and Tariq Aziz and the number of all of the defendants is 16 people.’’
Faili-kurd.com
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Property disputes, calling on citizens to review the branches to resolve their claims
Faylee.org 07.06.10
The commission for resolving of property disputes have invited all citizens who have claims in the Commission to review its branches in all governorates of the country.
The head of the Judge Alaa Jawad Department press at the National Centre for Information that this call is aimed at speeding up the resolution of claims by private citizens, adding that the body will start to receive complaints from citizens via cell identified by the department and Electronic, which will raise directly to the Commission President to decide and to speed up the resolution.
The Commission announced the phone number (07903617436), e-mail (alhallmg@yahoo.com) to receive requests for citizens who delayed the resolution of claims.
The General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers
NMC
Fayli register overlooked in Kurdish media, complains a Fayli personality
AKnews June 6th 2010
Erbil, June 6 (AKnews) – A Kurdish Fayli personality, Dr Talib Murad, blamed the Kurdish and the Iraqi governments for sidelining the Kurdish Fayli (Shiite) people, whose members were tortured, expelled with their possessions confiscated by the former toppled Iraqi Baathist Regime.
Dr Murad, an advisor in Kurdistan Council of Ministers held the Kurdish leadership liable for this marginalization and dispersal of the Faylis, justifying his word by saying that none of the 18 Kurdish channels broadcasts in the Faylis’ register. The interview with Dr Murad over this issue is summarized below.
AKnews: To which extent the Iraqi and Kurdistan governments have been interested in Fayli people’s issues?
Dr Murad: None of these parties has paid any attention to us. They have sidelined us. The educated Faylis are also responsible for the current negligence of their people as they play no role in Iraq or Kurdistan.
AKnews: Where does this inconvenient situation stem from?
Dr Murad: The main reason for their being overlooked is that during the Saddam Hussein regime the Faylis suffered sorts of aggressions. The supporting religious and Kurdish organizations could not serve the Faylis best to assemble them under one umbrella. The Faylis were expelled from Iraq following a political order in 1962 and were stripped of their Iraqi identity. They need a political order to restore their lost identities and confiscated possessions.
AKnews: Was Kurdish leadership negligent about Faylis?
Dr Murad: Faylis are originally a Kurdish community that in 1961 in Baghdad decided to join the great Kurdish September Revolution. But now they are complaining about Kurdistan political leadership’s inattention against them. The Kurdish political leadership ought to unite all Faylis immediately after the fall of Baathist regime by 2003 for now the community is scattered among the Supreme Islamic Council and the Kurdish and other Iraqi parties.
AKnews: How can the Iraqi and Kurdistan governments rescue Faylis from this dispersion?
Dr Murad: Both governments can pay attention to Faylis and work to restore their identity and possessions. Besides, they should bring together Faylis from different parts into Kalar town within Sulaimaniyah province and provide them with plots of lands or shelters.
Lh(AKnews)
The Kurdish leadership should deal with the issue of Faili Kurds away from partisanship
Shafaq.com 30.05.2010
In an interview with the Kurdish MP in the previous parliament, Mahmoud Othman by shafaq.com
Mr. Osman said: ‘Kurdish Parties have in general neglected the issue of Faili Kurds and only care about those who belong to their parties, and the Faili Kurds are persecuted for many reasons including because they are Kurds, patriotic and they are Shiites’
Mr. Osman said further: ‘it is important that the Faili Kurds, to make clear their suffering for all parties, and that Kurdish parties help them in interest of public for them to achieve their goals.
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Concert with the singer Hassan Hayas from Khaneqin in Oslo
Faili-kurd.com 10.05.10
In a well-organized concert on workers day 1.mai I Oslo-Norway by Kurdish singer Hassan Hayas organized by mainly Yarsan Culturall Association and representative of Faili kurds and the Khaneqinis living in Oslo.
There were attendees from the Kurdish city of Khaneqin, Kermanshan and Ilam and other Kurdish cities.
Yarsan Culturall Association is an organisation representing kurds in Norway belonging to Yarsan fate living in the areas of Kermanshan, Ilam, Khaneqin, Kerkuk, Mandali and other areas in Kurdistan Iran and Kurdistan Iraq.
The Kurdish singer Hassan Hayas sings mainly in the Khaneqini/Faili/Lori/Gorani dialect.
The concert is one many arrangements witch is going to be held by YCA and other organisation whom are devoted to the people living in areas of Kermanshan, Ilam, Khanaqin, Lurestan and other areas where the dialect of Faili, Gorani, Laki, Kelhuri and Kermanshani are spoken for the sake of promoting this old and rich dialect of Kurdish, witch we feel are neglected by many and not given the attention it deserves.
There were held speeches praising all of them whom are working for promoting this beautiful dialect called Gorani, Laki. Lori, Faili, Shabak and other names, and called for all to give more support and attention to the call of people whom speak this Kurdish dialect.
Read more about Yarsan:
www.yarsan.net
Faili-kurd.comPNA- BAGHDAD / Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Saturday called for justice for the “crime” of displacement of Feyli Kurds.
“These days coincide with the 30th anniversary of the tragedy of displacement of Feyli Kurds, one of the most heinous crimes perpetrated by the regime of despotism and dictatorship,” Talabani said during a ceremony to commemorate the displacement of Feyli Kurds in a speech read out on his behalf by his political advisor Jalal al-Mashta.Feylis are a group of Shiite Kurds who had been the target for organized displacement to Iran during the 1980s on the pretext that they belong to Iran. The former regime had confiscated their property, money and stores.Aswat al-Iraq:
Other attendants were from different political parties in Sweden and the political forces in Sweden, and the Communist Party of Iraq, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Sadrists, the Islamic Da'wa Party, SCIRI, the Iraqi Federation in Sweden Organization, Manuel Swedish - Sister Nadia Saleem, Iraqi Women's League , Task Gulls Tigris, the Association of Iraqi women - Stockholm, brothers Sabean Almendaieyen, Hussein, Imam Sajjad (AS), the General Conference of response Faili - Brother Abdul-Jabbar Karim, Jacques, Organization Cordoseid - Brother Jabbar Jian, Society Aconite Mirka veterans, the brother of Sheikh Sabih Nuri. And also attended a large number of families of the martyrs of the victims of ethnic cleansing and mass murder
Aknews 06.04.2010
Erbil, April 6 (AKnews) –A complementary session on the Faili Kurds' file is to be held at the Iraqi High Criminal Court Tuesday, official at the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Ministry of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs announced that.
The court has held 26 sessions on the file so far, 85 witnesses have had attended to bear witness up till now.
"The fiery statements of the Shabaks against the Kurds or the Arabs ended and we consider both sides as our brothers and friends. Our region is the region of peaceful coexistence and balanced relations must be built with everyone and with all parties, and we will be with the party which provides us more services and contributes in consolidating the security in our region," he said.
Four Shabaki candidates competed for the quota seat allocated for the Shabaks in the parliamentary elections, and the candidate Mohammed Jamshid won with (11,755) votes while the former MP Hanin Qadu who was known for his anti-Kurdish statements and attitudes in Nineveh province lost.About the closest list that they could ally with, Jamshid said: "Kurdistan Alliance is the closest List to us since it provided security in the Shabaki areas, but we do won't neglect the other lists.""The Shabaks want to live in peaceful coexistence away from sectarian strife," he said.Shabaks are a part of the Iraqi community who are about 300,000 people according to unofficial statistics, while the UN statistics say that the number of Shabaks in Iraq is about 450,000 and 90% of them live in Nineveh province.According to the results announced by the IHEC on Friday, al-Iraqi List, led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi won 91 seats, followed by the State-of-the-Law coalition, led by outgoing Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki with 89 seats, then the list of National Iraqi coalition, 70 seats, and the Kurdistan Alliance ranked fourth by obtaining 43 seats.
Day of Faili Kurds Martyrs
Faili-kurd.com 06.04.2010
Faylee.orgGlory and eternity to you SHAHID.
We will never forget you.Faili Kurds did not achieve anything in the parliamentary elections!
Ali Saywaney 29.03.2010
Following is the partly result for the election 2010 for Iraqi parliamentary elections announced on friday it seems that the Faili kurds did not even get one seat for the coming parliament!
What happened and what can we do??
Many question to answer.
There were about 20-30 Faili candidates in different political parties and alliances on election 2010, but the number of votes this candidates got where something about 20 thousand.
I am sure that many Faili votes went to other non Faili candidates in the election, but this number is impossible to verify.
I personnel have talked to different Faili kurds(relatives, friends and family) in and out of Iraq and the answer I got from them was that most of them did not give their votes to Faili Kurdish candidates.
There were many reasons for that.
There where simply to many Faili candidates and worst of all many of them were unknown for the Faili Kurds voters living in and outside Iraq. It seem like many of the Faili candidates thought that by getting their name on what ever list they are secured votes and seat in the parliament.
The Faili WHO are known for being god organisers, went to the election in an must disorganised matter.
I quite one of my relatives living in Baghdad: ‘’I did not vote because I did know anything about the Faili candidates and I felt like anyone with money or god contacts started an origination in Baghdad and seemed to represent the Faili kurds. I did not felt that they represented my rights in any way’’.
When a candidate gets less than 20 votes in million city Baghdad it makes me wonder if this candidates have talk to any of voters about anything or just have preyed to god for votes?
It is clear that most of candidates do not know the rule of election or how to try to get votes!
Regarding to this I would like to tell a history about an experience I had in the last parliament election I Norway in 2009.
Sitting in my house one afternoon many weeks before the election the door bell ringed and when I opened the door I saw to my sup price the current foreign minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Store(one the most important political personalities in Norway today and future), he was campaigning in an door to door for his labour party and tried to convince me a Kurd whom came to Norway as an political refuge for about 20 years ago about their parties program for my vote!
I am sure not many of the candidates in Iraq did that!
How can we bee so disorganised when we see that rights of the Faili Kurds, the right to nationality, property confiscated, the martyrs, political prisoners and rehabilitation have not recovered so far?
Is it so difficult to unit around this simple and rightful demands we Faili kurds should have for the new Iraq and get our voices heard in the parliament and before the next election go to palls in more organized matter than 2010 or are we going to repeat this again??
Faili Kurds main demands are:
1- Restoration of the Faili Kurds Iraqi citizenship and citizenship rights.2- Facilitating the return of the Faili Kurds both those expelled to outside the country and those displaced internally to their original places of residence in Iraq and putting an end to the consequences of ethnic cleansing in these and other places.
3- Reinstatement of Faili Kurds confiscated official documents.
4- Returning to the Faili Kurds their confiscated movable and immovable property or compensating the Faili Kurds for their confiscated property.
5- Providing information on the fate of the Faili Kurds detained youth and the where-about of their remains.
6- Enabling Faili Kurds to play their constructive role in the current political process in Iraq by representatives of their own.
7- Putting a end to the de facto discrimination against the Faili Kurds by Government departments inside Iraq and Iraqi embassies abroad.
We Faili kurds need to get our voices get heard in all ways we can and in an organized way!
Faili-kurd.com
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Kurds lose possible 6 seats
Rudaw 15.03.10
The Kurdish lists have lost a possible 6 Iraqi parliament seats in the disputed regions, because the division among the Kurdish lists.
According to Rudaw investigation, many Kurdish votes from disputed regions and Baghdad the capital of Iraq has been lost, especially from Gorran, Islamic Komal and Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU), due to Kurdish separate lists.In Diyala province so far the Kurdish alliance has secured two seats, one each for Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), but according to Ja'afer Iminki the Head of KDP's election office. "If all the Kurdish lists were united, we would've gotten three seats with a strong possibility of getting the fourth one" he said.
According to some sources, in Kirkuk as well, up to 98 thousands of Kurdish votes has been lost, and this has affected Kurdish overall result in the province, which according to Iraq High Election commission (IHEC), the former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi list "Al-Iraqiyaa" coalition is in front with 252 thousands votes and the Kurdistan Alliance is in second position with 223 thousands votes.
"As a result of separate list by these four Kurdish lists, Kurds has lost nearly 80 thousands votes and non of them have gotten any seats, but if the Kurds were one list, non of the Gorran, Komal and KIU votes would have been lost and the Kurds would have gotten 8 seats," Iminki added.
Meanwhile, In Baghdad and Salahaddin province, all the Kurdish votes have been lost. "Again in Baghdad and Salahaddin because of Kurdish detachment, we haven't able to get any seats," Ja'afer Iminki revealed
Concerning Kurdish lost votes in disputed region, the head of KDP's election bureau believes the Kurdish lists made a mistake, by not becoming one united list.
More than 1500 citizens from the people of Kalar in the province of Sulaimaniya demonstrated, to denounce the police campaign against Kurdish politicians and Kurdish Roj TV. The demonstration condemned and said that the aim of the campaign was to stop the distribution Roj TV and explained that the only objectives of the conspiracy against the Kurdish movement and its symbols was political and to satisfy Turkey.
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Khanaqin residents mark 1991 uprising anniversary
PUKmedia 05-03-2010
The residents of Khanaqin on Friday, March 05, 2010, organized a demonstration to celebrate the 19th anniversary of March 1991 upraising. The Active Member of the Politburo of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Mala Bakhtiyar, the Head of PUK Organization Centre in Khanaqin Selah Kwekha, members and cadres of the centre and the representatives of the parties and governmental and non-governmental organizations attended the event.Coordinating Committee of Faili Kurds 2010-03-04
We are surprised and disappointed when we heard the escalation of militancy in terms of papers and documents that must be highlighted in Sweden before the vote in the elections of the Iraqi Council of Representatives 2010
Having been known to us in the seminar held on 13/2/2010 in the Office of Sweden to the Independent High Commission for the elections that the Swedish passport alone (which shows the bearer's identity and place of birth in Iraq), was enough to vote, we heard from the delegation of the Bureau in a symposium held by the Coordinating Committee of Faili kurds in Stockholm on 28/2/2010, entitled "awareness and voter education and encouraging broad participation in voting" and that the Swedish passport alone is not enough but should highlight the Iraqi document, endorsed as well.
Therefore, on the proposal of the President Office of Sweden to the Independent High Commission for the elections, Dr. Ghassan Al-Saad, during the symposium on "outreach and voter education and to encourage broad participation in the vote" in 28/2/2010, we on the same day by sending a notice to that effect to the Electoral Commission for elections in Baghdad to the Chairman Mr. Faraj al-Haidari, and asked him to distribute it to all Commissioners and sent a copy to the head of the Office of Sweden, demanded that the Commission adopt the same controls that have been followed during the last election, a Swedish passport, which shows the bearer's identity and place of birth in Iraq. We have not yet any answer from the Commission or the Chairman or the Office of Sweden.
Yes, I we know there are attempts to forging passports and documents of other Iraqi widely (perhaps with the help official agencies) in some countries in the Middle East.
We understand the concerns on the implications of such a forgery, and appreciate the seriousness of such attempts and their success should not be allowed. But the counterfeiting of passports and other documents in Sweden, Europe, America, Canada and Australia are not only rarely and on a scale individually.
Therefore, we believe this escalation in militancy on the issue of Iraqi documents required is a request unjust and crippling condition, because everyone knows, including the Electoral Commission for elections in Baghdad, the decision-maker that the system is arbitrary and unjust already an inventory of all forcibly displaced (and the vast majority of them are Faili Kurds) since 4 / 4 / 1980 by resolution No. 666 issued by the Revolutionary Command Council (degenerate) of their documents and belongings before being deported. So will these impossible unfair conditions to deprive tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens, the vast majority of them Faili Kurds victims of the bloody crimes of the former regime and families of the martyrs, including "more than 20000 of the detainees absent" from participating in elections.
Is this what you want to achieve the Electoral Commission for elections
Coordinating Committee of Faili Kurd
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Joint security plan to protect elections in Khanaqin
PUKmedia 02.03.2010
Under supervision of deputy commander of US troops in Northern Iraq General Donyahoo, representative of KRG Ministry of Peshmerga Staff Major General Ismaiel Sarhan and head of Garmiyan police Major General Hussein Mansur, a meeting was held to make a joint security plan for elections in Khanaqin District and its surroundings.
In a press statement following the meeting, General Donyahoo said “the security plan was set in coordination with Garmiyan police. Our forces are not interested in the elections results, but are looking toward making these elections successfulness and legal. The elections successfulness will put Iraq in the frame of regional and international countries. Our forces are working to secure the elections.”
Concrete walls were installed in front of the electoral stations as part of the security plan to protect the voters.
Seminar for public Faili Kurds in Stockholm inpreparation for participation in parliamentary elections
Failyoun.com / Stockholm /23.02.2010
Within the protective atmosphere of the election campaign in the Swedish capital (Stockholm) public seminar on Sunday 21.02.2010 was attended by a large gathering of the Iraqi community in particular Faili brothers as well as representatives of political parties and the various Iraqi actors in Sweden.
In this seminar held by the Faili Kurd / Sweden Mr. Abdul Wahid Feili, a leader of the National Conference General Faili Kurds visitor to Europe, who spoke about the importance of the electoral process to devote the proper rules for building the new Iraq, and the need for effective public participation of Faili kurds in this election, to realize their legitimate rights.
Explaining the specifics of the candidates of the Faili Kurds in the Iraqi National List coalition, and the importance of this list in terms of independence of the nominees and their dedication to serve the Faili cause, and the need to deliver the voice of the Faili kurds to the parliament, and to contribute actively in decision-making commensurate with the size of the Failis in Iraq. This permeated the seminar attended by delegates from a number of satellite channels and the Iraqi media questions and answers and the statements of many of the brothers and sisters present on various aspects of the Faili kurds to participate in the elections that we hope it would see the active participation differ from previous posts.
Baghdad / ARRAS Jawad / private radio twilight 22.10.2010
In an exclusive interview with radio station (twilight) Sindi said that if a vote of confidence by voters in Baghdad, the Kurds will try hard to promote a bridge of communication between Baghdad and the leadership of the Kurdistan Region in order to resolve the outstanding problems between the parties and particularly the issues of disputed areas and the issue of oil contracts signed by the region with companies world and the issue of the Peshmerga and the Kurdistan Region's share of the federal budget.
At the end of his student-Sindi all Iraqi citizens, especially the Kurds living in Baghdad to participate actively in the forthcoming parliamentary elections for these elections are crucial to all components of the Iraqi people.
faili-kurd.com 17.02.2010
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The Kurdistani Alliance (372)
Candidates of the Baghdad Province
4- Jalil Faily NO. 1
5- NADHEERAH ISMAEL KAREEM No. 27
6- Hassa Husein Shame No. 29
9.- Sami Baqer Mosi No. 14
Iraqi National Coalition (316)
Candidates of the province of Baghdad1 - Sheikh Ali Farhan Mekdad Karam No. 43 –
Known as Sheikh al-Baghdadi Mekdad. Secretary-General of the Faili Islamic grouping.
2 - Sheikh Salah Ali Murad Crown No. 112 –
Known as Sheikh Salah Mandalawi. The head of the independent Faili Kurds.
3 - Judge Munir Haddad Hatem Sabry No. 13
Known as Judge Munir Haddad. Member of the High Criminal Court.
4 - Chancellor Hana Beck Murad Yarkh No. 27 Adviser, First Deputy President of the Republic
5 - Dr. Issam Kazim Mohammed Redha No. 20
Professor
6 - Mr. Ibrahim Hassan Abdul Hussein, No. 101
Known as Abraham Faili. Director General of the Ministry of Education.
7 - Haji Tariq Ceyhan Bakhsh Furman, No. 115
Commonly known as Tarek Mandalawi . Secretary-General of the Community Feeli Iraq
8- Sheikh Mohammed Saeid Alnu’mani
Candidates Diyala
1 - Professor Juma Abbas Houdrti, No. 17
Known as Khankini Ala. Language school.
2 - Mr. Jassim Al-Jabar Salman Faris, No. 24 Professor
Candidate Wasit
1 - Prof. Abdul Amir Ali Thamer, No. 5
Known as the polar Thamer , Math teacher
Candidate Maysan
Known as the Kamel Kanani, Media
Coalition the rule of law (Noori Almaliki) (337)
Candidates of the Baghdad Province
1- Abdullsamad Rahman (Minister of Migrants and Displaced) No. 522- Amer Thamer
Arab tribes in Khaneqin support KAB No. 37
PUKmedia 15.02.2010
The Arab sheikhs and chieftains in Khanaqin District announced their support to the Kurdistan Alliance Bloc. That came during a visit of Khanaqin Organization Centre of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan included Ibrahim Ali Reza, the PUK Secretary General Representative in Diyala, Sheikh Ahmed Shihab Ahmed, the KAB Candidate in the province where they held a meeting with the Arab chieftain of (Harb, Qolai and Laheeb) tribes.The attendants thanked the Kurdistan Regional Government for paying heed to the area through providing services and keeping security and stability emphasizing that they will participate in the upcoming election in March 07 and will vote for the Kurdistan Alliance Bloc No. 372.
Invitation by Coordinating Committee of Faili Kurds
Faylee.org 15.02.2010
Dear brothers and sisters,
Coordinating Committee of Kurdish Feili will organize in coordination by all Kurdish Feili symposium open to all in the Swedish capital of Stockholm in the hall of (Kista Träff) from 13:00 hours to 16:30 hours in the afternoon on Sunday 28/2/2010 brief summary, for a meeting involving representatives of electoral participation in coming Iraqi elections, 2010, with an audience of Iraqi voters living in Sweden.
The Iraqi community living in Sweden has a large community numbering more than 150,000 people, and the heavy presence of the Faili Kurds in Sweden is a high proportion of this community.
We welcome the participation of representatives of all the electoral lists without any exception.
Fayha TV channel will cover the seminar. We very much welcome the participation of other satellite channels.
Please let us know before the date of 21/2/2010 for your participation in the symposium on the following email address in order to coordinate the program of the symposium: info@faylee.org
Read in Arabic: http://www.faylee.org/2010/1002033.htm
Barzanji praises struggle and the positions of the Faili Kurds in the Kurdish revolution
Shafaaq.com 15.02.2010
BAGHDAD - Jawad ARRAS / Radio Shafaq
In a statement to correspondent of radio station, Dr. Saadi Barzanji Iraqi Council of Representatives member from the Kurdistan Coalition List praised the sacrifices of the struggle of the Faili Kurds in the Kurdish revolution, past and present when he said:**that the Faili Kurds were and still are in the forefront of the struggle of Kurdistan where they offered sacrifices in order to receive the rights of our people, and today it is the responsibility of the Kurdish authority to bear the responsibility for defending their rights and try to compensate them financially and morally.
In another part of the statement called for the Faili Kurds in Baghdad and other areas of the south and center to participate actively in the upcoming elections and a national duty by voting for the Kurdish list numbered 372. And on the functions and duties of the Kurdistan Coalition List in the Iraqi parliament next Barzanji said that the most important functions of the list in the next stage is to insist on the procedure of Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution to resolve the issue of disputed areas and the implementation of other articles of the Constitution which is in the interest of all the Iraqi people.
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Osman demanding the governments of Iraq and the Kurdistan Region to work seriously to resolve the problems of the Faili Kurds
Shafaaq.com 15.02.2010
In response to a question, our correspondent on future efforts to the Kurdistan Alliance list in order to solve the problems of the Faili Kurds in Baghdad and other areas, Dr Mahmoud Othman said, as a member of the Iraqi parliament for the Kurdish Alliance list that solving the problems of the Faili Kurds and in particular the problem of the recovery of Iraqi nationality, money and property seized by the system defunct will be one of the priorities of the tasks and duties and the Kurdish list for the national supervisory positions in this segment and role of senior Kurdish revolutions; He stressed that the Faili Kurds are an integral part of the Kurdish people and Kurdish leadership and the Kurdistan Coalition List for their support and work to solve problems like all the people of Kurdistan
Electoral Commission gives the right to vote for 22 thousand voters of the displaced in Khanaqin
Westlurestan.com 12.02.2010
The Director of the Office of the Independent Higher Commission for Elections in Diyala province, on Sunday 14 / 2, the consent of the Commission to give the right to vote for a family of seven thousand from 22 thousand voters of the displaced returning to the city of Khanaqin after denial of participation in provincial elections years.
He explained: that those families had been relocated from Khanaqin and surrounding areas in the seventies of the last century under a policy of Arabization, which exercised the former Iraqi regime, was recently able to transfer their ration cards to Khanaqin.
He pointed out that the voter is entitled to vote in the event showed a ration card, a certified personal status and identity of certified and registered in the district of Khanaqin and Jalula and Saadia and Qeretepa and Jabar and Mandali affiliates.
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Faili Kurds suffered a lot during Saddam era
08.02.2010 AK NewesErbil, Feb. 8 (AKnews) – According to the Historical sources, the Faille Kurdish Community is the major element of Iraqi Community, had terribly suffered and been suppressed a lot under former Baath party, led by Saddam Hussein for almost three decades.
“The Faille’s Kurdish is still suffering from lack of its rights and public distributions in the Sand box (Iraq) by both the central government and KRG, even though down fall previous Baath regime,” Jawed Faille told the Independent National News Agency of Kurdistan (AKnews).
“The central government is still working on the previous law by formal Baath revulsion council which was banned the community major rights and privileges to set back its home lands and reorganization of their identifications as well as material possessions and resources,” the Kurdistan MP, Ali Hussein Faille released.
According to the Red Cross Committee’s estimations from 1980 “more than 480 Kurdish families had expelled from its homeland powerfully to Iran, excepting the excluded ones at the beginning of 1970,” Hussein said.
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Minister of Immigration: The Ministry did not succeed to cancel the decision to drop the citizenship of the Faili Kurds
Alsumaria News: 08.02.2010
Minister of Displacement and Migration Abdul-Samad Rahman Sultan said: "The ministry could not achieve success in their endeavour to set aside the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council No. 666 which provides for revocation of Iraqi citizenship from the Faili Kurds and the confiscation of their money and properties.
Shafaaq.com 21.01.2010
(Translated by faili-kurd from Arabic)
Faryad Rawanduzi member of the Iraqi parliament spokesman for the Kurdistan Alliance bloc in the Iraqi government and Iraqi Council of Representatives demands to return of the rights of the Faili Kurds.
Rawanduzi said in a press conference held today at the Conference Palace in Baghdad that: ''Faili Kurds whom were forcibly displaced to Iran and returned from Iran after 2003 did not even receive the most elementary rights''.
He pointed out that they were forcibly send to Iran in 1980 and have now returned to Iraq and did not even get a ration card or any housing help despite the passage of many years on their return.
Hundreds of the Faili Kurds have returned to Iraq after 2003, they faced obstacles that have prevented the return of their civil rights, particularly the issuance of Iraqi nationality, as well as to recover their property that was confiscated by the former regime.
There are close to 90 political bodies or individuals competing for parliamentary seats in Iraq's general election scheduled for March 6. The following are the leading alliances:
The Iraqi Block [al-kutla al-iraqiya]: This bloc rests on three key personalities: the previous prime minister Ayad Allawi (a secular Shi'ite and a physician by training), Vice President Tareq Al-Hashemi, and key Sunni politician Saleh al-Mutlaq. The bloc plans to run on a nationalist-secular and anti-Iranian platform. Late last week, the de-Ba'thification Commission, currently known as the Justice and Accountability Commission, has declared Al-Mutlaq to be a Ba'thist supporter and barred him from running for a seat in parliament. If the decision is not rescinded, the barring of Al-Mutlaq could deliver a big blow to the prospects of this block which gets financial support from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries. Al-Mutlaq and his supporters maintain that his barring was done at the behest of Iran.
Sources: Al-Rafidayn, January 11, 2010, in addition to other sources of information made available to our readers in previous issues of MEMRI blog
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(VOI)
The secretary general of the Feyli Kurds Grouping on Saturday said it would join the Iraqi National Alliance List for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
"The Feyli Kurds Grouping examined the principles and the electoral platform of the Iraqi National Alliance List and found them to be similar to its approch and principles," Mohammed al-Numani told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The alliance, which was announced on August 24, includes the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC); the Sadrist movement, led by Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr; Badr Organization; the Fadila Party; the Iraqi Sahwa (Awakening) Congress; and other independent figures.Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Islamic Daawa Party said it would participate in the upcoming polls, scheduled to take place on January 16, with a separate list, "The State of Law Coalition."
Feyli Kurds, who make one of the ethnic groups of the Iraqi people, are inhabeting the border areas between Iraq and Iran, mostly concentrated in the areas of Jalawlaa, Khanaqin, Mandili, Badra, Jassan, al-Kut, al-Numaniya and al-Aziziya.
Hakim: wide participation in next elections to form next political scene.06.01.2010Bagdad(NINA)
The Chief of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, Ammar al-Hakim stressed that "The wide participation in the next elections will form the next political scene in Iraq.
In a statement by the SIIC cited on Wednesday "Hakim met on last Tuesday night cadres of the National Congress for Faili Kurds and discussed with them the latest political updates specially the next elections issue." The statement added "Hakim urged for the wide participation in the next elections to form the political map for Iraq." The statement noted "Hakim emphasized the rights of the Faili Kurds praising their sacrifices while confronting the former regime." "Hakim also assured that the unity among Iraqis is to help achieving more good outcomes for Iraq," the statement concluded.NINA(National Iraqi News Agency)
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Faili Kurds, life from camp to camp 24.12.09
After the Kurdish uprising of 1991, some of the families who were members of the Iraqi Kurdish parties returned to Iraqi Kurdistan, but many of them stayed in camps in Iran.
Ali Faili said that most of the refugees refused to return to Iraq following the 1991 uprising, because their hometowns were under the control of the Baath regime.
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Iraq - VP receives delegation of Feyli Kurds 10.12.09
PNA -BAGHDAD -Iraqi Vice President Adil Abdulmahdi received at his office in Baghdad on Thursday the Secretary-General of the Feyli Kurdish General National Congress, Sheikh Mohammed Saeed al-Noamani, and his accompanying delegation.
“During the meeting, the two sides discussed the latest political and security developments in Iraq, in addition to the condition of Feyli Kurds in the country,” said a presidential release received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
“The status of Feyli Kurds is historic and should be put in its correct context,” the statement quoted Abdulmahdi as saying.He said that efforts have to be exerted in order to restore Feyli Kurds’ full rights.
President Talabani meets with delegation of Faili Kurds General Conference
President Jalal Talabani on Sunday, November 8, in his Residence in Baghdad met with a delegation of the General Conference of the Faili Kurds.
Baghdad’s faili kurds demand their rights OCTOBER 29, 2009
Faili kurdisk barneskole i Bagdad (Bilde fra siden shafaaq.com)
Baghdad- After a number of Kurdish schools were established in Baghdad and Faili Kurds demand studying in their dialect (Faili dialect). The Faili Commission hailed the steps taken by the government to open Kurdish schools while it criticized the Iraqi parliament for not giving them enough rights.
At a statement of the Faili Kurds, despite mentioning the support of each one of Talabani, Barzani and Maliki to their issues, a severe criticism was been directed to the Iraqi parliament because it has not addressed the issues of Faili Kurds so far.“After six and a half year of waiting, they (officials) must deliver their promises to the Faili Kurds,” the statement said.
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Faili Kurds case trial starts in October 24.08.08
BAGHDAD, Iraq,— The trial of the 16 defendants on the Faili Kurds case will start next October, the president of Iraq's Higher Criminal Court (IHCC) revealed on Sunday."The IHCC will hold its first session to try defendants on the Faili Kurds case next October," Judge Aref al-Shahin told VOI.
Several International organizations estimated that nearly one million Iraqi Faili Kurds were displaced by force between the years 1970 and 1990.
The defendants on this case are Saadoun Shakir, Tareq Aziz, Fadel Sulfeij al-Azzawi, Watban Ibrahim al-Hassan, Sabaawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, Ahmed Hussein, Mazban Khedr Hadi, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saber al-Dori, Aziz Saleh al-Nawman, Abdelhamid Soliman, Saad Saleh Ahmed Sultan, Muhammad Khudeir al-Halboussi, Fadel Abbas al-Aamiri, Nu'man Ali al-Tikriti and Iyad Taha Shihab.
Failis speak Faili, a dialect of the Pahlawani. The roots of the Failis go back to the Aryan immigrants of the first millennium BC, and more specifically, the Parthian/Pahlawi/Pahlawanid settlements of the 2nd century BD.
They embraced Islam in the early stages of the Islamic conquest and colonization of Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Iran, though archeological evidence from the Ilam province in Iran indicates that a significant proportion of Failis were Nestorian Christians until the 18th Century.When the Safavid dynasty (1507-1721) held sway over Persia, Faili Kurds switched to the Shiite Jaafari doctrine under Persian influence.In modern times the Failis have been subject to state persecutions. They are considered as a stateless people, with both Iran and Iraq claiming they are citizens of the other country.In mid-1970s, Iraq expelled around 40,000 Shiite Faili Kurds who had lived for generations near Baghdad and Khanaqin, alleging that they were Iranian nationals.
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