Southern Kurdish: Kurdí Xuwarig?
Can we adopt this name to get more united?
Faili-kurd.com
Southern Kurdish(in Kermansha, Ilam, Lurestan, Xaneqin,Mendeli & Bedre):
(Southern Kurdish: Kurdí Xuwarig) belongs to the Northwestern Iranian languages and is predominantly spoken in western Iran and eastern Iraq. In Iran, it is spoken in the provinces of Kermanshah (Kirmaşan) and Ilam. In Iraq it is spoken in the region of Khanaqin (Xaneqîn), all the way to Mandali, Pehle. It is also the language of the populous Kurdish Kakayî tribe near Kerkuk and theZengenes near Kifrî.
There are also populous diasporas of Southern Kurdish Dialects group found in the Alburz mountains. Its dialects are Kolyaî, Kermanshahi (Kirmaşanî), Kalhuri, Garrusi (Gerrûsî) (Bijari), Sanjâbi (Sencabî), Malekshahi (Melikşay), Beyrey or Mahaki (which is a sub-dialect of Feyli) and Feyli (ilami). It had around 3 million speakers in Iran in 2000 and about 1-1,5 million in Iraq.
Southern Kurdish dialects, such as Laki, are spoken in Iran in the provinces Ilam, kermanshah, and Lorestan. Southern dialects do not have a standard written form and have not adequately been studied.
Faily Kurds in exile in Europe and America.
What did they do for the cause of their compatriots??
Abdul Aziz Lazim/Shaafaq.com 17.07.10
The conditions of repression exercised by the former regime against the Faili Kurds and other Iraqi people forced thousands of oppressed people of this segment to go out into other countries such as America and European countries other than neighboring countries.
Many of these forced migrants have found employment in the cultural institutions in the investment sector, which enhanced their ability to build an economic and social position in these countries. But most of them have not forgotten their membership of their people of Iraq and to their compatriots of the Faili Kurds.
Social organizations and specialized cultural clubs which attracted their fellow Iraqis of other nationalities to do the activities of social, political nature, designed to explain the issue of their fellow immigrants, and to rally support media to their advantage. This happened in Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Australia, Britain and others.
Although the effectiveness of these activities qualitatively but we did not hear its ideals in other important countries such as the United States, Canada, Latin America and elsewhere. The pressing tasks before the Iraqi Kurdish communities are expanding both horizontally and vertically in its activities for the cause of the Faili Kurds.
Since the conditions of those oppressed are pressing and long neglected by the hardship imposed by the country's political circumstances, the inability of domestic forces to take practical steps for establishing the rights of this segment to return to their country and restore their property and give them the necessary documents to confirm the identity of Iraq is so harmful for them .
The lag is clear and unjustified by the Iraqi political forces to resolve this issue. Human rights requires more concerted grass-roots efforts to create a powerful pressure is not on the Iraqi state, but also the world's governments and the United Nations to intervene for the recovery of Faili Kurds Iraqis of the entire political human rights, and return them to their country . There is no doubt that this task is urgently wanted from their fellow migrants abroad to create international public opinion and to bring supporters from Arab countries for this issue.
Faili-kurd.com
The Faili Kurds of Iraq: Thirty Years Without Nationality
Faylee.org 04.02.2010
Thirty years ago, in April 1980, between 220,000 and 300,000 Iraqi Faili Kurds were stripped of their Iraqi citizenship. Many were expelled from their homes and were forced to march across the Iranian border into decades of exile and statelessness. Others became non-citizens in their own country. Though important steps have been taken by the Government of Iraq to restore the citizenship of these people, it is estimated that roughly 100,000 still lack a nationality.
In Iraq it is essential to hold a nationality certificate in order to access work, education and other basic rights and opportunities. The nationality certificate is often required to obtain other kinds of documentation such as birth, death and marriage certificates. Without a nationality certificate many Faili Kurds have been denied access to basic services and rights for at least three decades.
The Faili Kurds are largely a Shi ’a community living in Baghdad, the Diyala Province of Iraq, and in the Southern Governorates of Wassit, Missan and Basrah. For centuries the Failis have lived in the border area between Iraq and Iran on both sides of the Zagros Mountains.
This population has long been discriminated against in Iraq. The 1924 Iraqi Nationality Law divided Iraq ’s population into three categories based on religion and ethnicity. The Shi’a Kurds were systematically classified in the lowest category. They were repeatedly targeted by government officials who claimed that as followers of the Shi’a faith, Faili Kurds were in fact originally from Iran. The Baathist government feared potential dissidence and opposition and therefore discriminated against them.
In the mid 1970s Iraq expelled around 40,000 Faili Kurds to Iran, alleging they were Iranian nationals. In 1980, decree 666 ensured that Faili Kurds were stripped of Iraqi citizenship. Their properties were seized by the government. Many of the families that were deported to Iran were highly educated, economically successful and held ranking positions in the government. While in Iran, many of these families lived in camps and were denied access to work, education and travel documents. They were even unable to register births, deaths and marriages. Some Faili Kurds report that if they sought to return to Iraq, many would receive a stamp from the Iranian authorities that read, “departure with no return.”
The 2006 Iraqi Nationality Law repealed decree 666 and states that all persons that had been denaturalized by the former government should have their Iraqi nationality reinstated. According to the Iraqi Ministry of Displacement and Migration (MODM), since 2003 about 20,000 families (or roughly 100,000 individuals) have had their citizenship reinstated. This is an important and positive first step. The challenge now is to help facilitate the reinstatement of citizenship for those who lack the necessary documents to prove they originate from Iraq. In order to reacquire Iraqi citizenship, Faili Kurds need to show that they were registered during the 1957 Iraqi national census. Many are unable to provide this proof of registration. During the war civil records were destroyed or lost and in some cases, people were simply not included in the census.
Iraq has a real opportunity to be an international leader in the resolution of statelessness. By partnering with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the organization mandated to prevent, protect and find solutions for stateless persons, the new Government in Iraq should seek to swiftly resolve this problem. UNHCR should make the Faili Kurds a priority and deploy protection staff focused exclusively on this issue. Though there are many pressing humanitarian challenges in Iraq today, this one can actually be resolved. The necessary legal framework is already in place, and the Government of Iraq has in the recent past expressed a strong political will to reinstate citizenship for this group. With a concerted and sustained focus, this issue can and should be addressed.
Elizabeth Campbell
Fri, 04/02/2010
Faili Kurds did not achieve anything in the parliamentary elections!
Ali Saiwaney 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 good 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.comMemorandum to the Office of the Independent High Electoral about - the new voting requirements and harsh and unfair against the Faili Kurds
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?
Election in Iraq and Faili kurds
By: Ali Saiwaney 18.02.2010
According to the Iraqi census, in 1947, represented the Faili Kurds in Iraq 6% of the total population, which amounted to 4'564'000 inhabitants of this census. It is generally admitted that the growth in population is practically the same in Iraq of Arabs and Kurds. The people of Iraq in 1960 were 6'822'000, 9'414'000 in 1970, and 13'233'000 in 1980 . This should be possible to estimate the number of the Faili Kurds in Iraq to 564'000 in 1970, and to 794'000 in 1980, the year that suffered the largest deportation campaign of Bath-government.
Lets assume that there are about 1.920.000,- Faili kurds in Iraq, 6% of total Iraqi population 31,234,00.
And if we follow the same age structure as rest of Iraq we get the following figures:
0-14 years: 39.7% (male and female; 762.240,-)
15-64 years: 57.3% (male and female; 1.100.160,- )
65 years and over: 3% (male and female; 57600,-)
Lets assume that about 50% of the Faili kurds are able to vote in Iraq, that means about
50% of 1.920.000,- Failis= about 960.000,- Faili votes.
And according to IHEC there where about 17 million voters in Iraq in 2008. This means that the nr. Of Faili votes in Iraq are something about 5,7% of all votes in Iraq.
The law increased the size of the Council from 275 to 325 members - equal to one seat per 100,000 persons in Iraq, as specified in the Constitution of Iraq.
That means 5,7% of votes and seats is about 18-20 members in the Iraqi parliament.
This means that there are about 960.000,- Faili Kurdish votes in Iraq and 18-20 seats in Iraqi parliament that all the Iraqi political parties can get and are fighting for.
With this figures in mind we the Faili kurds should ask our self the following questions;
What does that mean for Faili kurds?
How can we Faili kurds use this to get the rights we are fighting for in Iraq today?
Are we getting the demands we have as Faili kurds in the new Iraq?
And who does deserve our votes in coming election 2010 or the next elections?
Her I have listed some of the demands Faili kurds have from the new Iraq. And I am sure that these demands we as Faili kurds can agree on without much discussion.
Our demands;
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.
I will not try to answer those questions I have asked.
The reason I have asked this question is so that we Failis wake up very soon and organise our self in a way so that the demands we have are meet and not just used as political arguments by anyone in the times before and after the elections.
There are many important issues which are been fought over by different political parties today in Iraq and even if we get different promises from different political parties from now and then, still the best way to get the demands we Faili Kurds have is to fight for it self, and not aspect others to give them to us.
It is important to clarify that by that I do not mean that we start Faili Kurdish party and forget the different ideologies we Faili kurds have or believe in. For this is something we are not ready for yet.
An example is my own family where we are seven brothers with different ideologies and ideas like Kurdistani nationalist, Faili nationalist, Iraqi nationalist and so on.
Still I can say without doubt that love them all and we all agree on the Faili demands I have listed earlier.
What I suggest is that we should as soon as possible, if not now for the next election organise our self in a way thru an organisation where our efforts and votes are organised in a way which gives the most effect and results for Faili kurds in Iraq.
By doing this we can achieve our goals much easier and play bigger role in decision making in the new democratic Iraq.
For the coming election in mars 2010 is important to remember that every vote counts and is important to decide whom you support and you should give your vote to.
Here you have the list of the names of Faili kurdish candidates in upcoming election in the different political parties in Iraq.
The Kurdistani Allaince (372)
Baghdad Province
1- Dr. Ramzi Taqi Rahman Faili, No.13
2- Adnan Razaallah Karam Feili, No.23
3- Saa’don Faily No.2
4- Jalil Faily NO. 1
5- NADHEERAH ISMAEL KAREEM No. 27
6- Hassa Husein Shame No. 29
7- Samie Aziz Mohammad Khosro Mosi No. 69
8- Qadrie Gafar Khaled Mosi No. 24
9.- Sami Baqer Mosi No. 16
Iraqi National Coalition (316)
Candidates of the province of Baghdad
1 - 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
1 - Mr. Jassim Khalaf No. 17
Known as the Kamel Kanani, Media
Coalition the rule of law (Noori Almaliki) (337)
1- Abdullsamad Rahman (Minister of Migrants and Displaced) No. 52
2- Amer Thamer
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Faylee Kurds in Iraq, a short account
Faylee Kurds are one of the ancient segments of Iraqi society. They have ruled Iraq east of the river Tigris from Kirkuk to Basra at the beginning of sixteenth century. They live now in the central, eastern and southern parts of Iraq, with biggest population concentration in Baghdad. Army Reserve Lt. Col. Joe Rice, who recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, told the Washington Post, expressing his personal opinion, that Baghdad is a deeply mixed city. He noted that, "The largest Kurdish city in Iraq? Baghdad. The largest Sunni city? Baghdad. The largest Shiite city? Yep, Baghdad." (By Thomas E. Ricks, a Washington Post Staff Writer, The Washington Post, Sunday, April 30, 2006).
Faylees were prominent in the trade and commerce sector and assumed semi dominant position within this sector. Statistics on the number of Faylees in Iraq is impossible to come by and estimates vary and difficult to ascertain due firstly to the fact that most of them live among other ethnic groups and secondly the cruel and inhumane policies of the former Saddam regime of ethnic cleansing and forcible displacement against the Faylee Kurds.
Faylee Kurds were severely persecuted by the regime of Saddam because of, among others, their social adaptability and mobility, hard work and economic advance, openness and nonsectarian attitudes and open-mindedness; their strong economic position, especially in trade and commerce; their support for the Kurdish national movement and Iraqi democratic forces; and their opposition to the former anti-democratic and totalitarian regime of the Baath party.
In 1969-1971 tens of thousands of Faylee Kurds were forcibly deported from Iraq an starting from April 4, 1980, hundreds of thousands of Faylee Kurds (the names of at least 500 000 of these Faylee Kurds are stored on CDs in the state achieves, according to some government officials whom we have spoken to) were forcibly expelled from the country. They were forcibly deported on flimsy pretexts and arbitrary grounds, the real reasons being political and economic, in a campaign of ethnic cleansing and mass killing. This unlawful campaign was retroactively given a semblance of “legitimacy” by a decision taken on the highest levels of the regime more than a month after the start of the campaign. The decision of the defunct “Revolution Command Council” number 666 was taken May 8, 1980 and after more than two weeks published in the official Gazette, signed by the former dictator, the chairman of the Council and President of Iraq. The state of Iraq under Saddam’s dictatorship unlawfully stripped them of their Iraqi citizenship; confiscated their movable and immovable property; took from them all their official and non-official documents; detained thousands of their young men and women only to disappear without a trace (“more than 20 000, according to current Iraqi Prime Minister, Mr. Nuri al-Maliki).
Faylee Kurds still await the restoration of their rights in the new Iraq. They aspire to a play their role in the political process in Iraq, to regain and safeguard their legitimate rights and vital interests and to be a stabilizing force in society. Faylee Kurds have not been party to the sectarian strife; they have not had nor have any militia forces; and they have mixed with and are on good terms with all sections of Iraqi society, Kurds from the Kurdistan Region, Arabs, Turkomans, Chaldean-Assyrian-Syrianis, Sunni and Shiite Muslims, Christians, Yazidis, Shabak, Mandaes and other faiths.
Faylee Kurds strongly feel that they are still being marginalized and are outsiders since no political force in Iraq has really bothered to restore to them their constitutional and legal rights despite repeated appeals by Faylee Kurds themselves and promises by these political forces ruling Iraq now. Arab Shiite as well as Sunni politicians are suspicious of the Faylee Kurds for being ethnic Kurds. Politicians from the Kurdistan Region are hesitant towards the Faylee Kurds and their “loyalty” because they are Shiites.
Faylee Kurds Democratic Union
