The Absurd Cause For The Faili Kurds Holocausts

This entry is part 1 of 8 in the series Faili Kurds Holocausts

Dr. Ala Musa Hasan | Exclusive to iKurd.net

Hazardous to civilization

For the past 35 years that Iraq was ruled by Saddam and his Baath Party, a general ill principle was existed in Iraq’s society that The Faili Kurds people were considered to be a dangerous people to their social order and they needed to be eliminated from Iraq’s culture.

Thus, the Faili Kurds were subject to massive and inhumane deportation and immense execution, and they had no escape from it.

No action they would take, no change in their behavior or their beliefs, would made the slightest difference regarding their exile and death warrant.

At every stage of the Faili Kurds lives, Saddam used his security intelligence and military superiority to crush and terrorize them. Also the threat of the Faili Kurds massive payback from the regime, Saddam ordered his Security Intelligent unit to execute several Thousands of their youths and their bodies were hitting away in mass graves, and their families were pushed away at the Iraqi/Iranian boarders.

Thousands of Saddam’s security intelligence unit and their accomplices combed the cities of Iraq to sniff out Faili Kurds people, and trapping every one who tried to slip through their fingers. This was a goal to which Saddam and his Baath Party devoted themselves to with the greatest efficiency.

The Faili Kurds people were generally abandoned by their society, neighbors, and the free world. They had no nationality status that they could rely on, no country of their own to which they could turn to; and they had no means of self defense. The Jewish and the Faili Kurds Holocaust were the most horrible massacres in human history. Never in history had the world witnessed such a campaign of expulsion and extermination.

The Faili Kurds genocide was very heartbreaking and terrible in its overt planning, in its systematic execution, and the absence of the emotional element and the pity of exterminating everyone. It is very important to acknowledge that the Faili Kurds genocide was aimed not only at the destruction of the Faili Kurds Community, but also at the Faili Kurds seed itself. It was an act not only against the Faili Kurds racial existence, but also against the Faili Kurds social and economical expansion.

The Faili Kurds people had suffered torture, degradation, and humiliation that were inflicted on them by Saddam and his followers in order to break them down, to rob them of the last shred of their human dignity, and to deprive them of any strength to resist and the desire to live.

They had no authority that they could appeal to for the redress of their injustice; no government that they could ask protection and punishment for their murderers; no neighbor on whose gate to knock and ask for shelter and refuge, and no deity to whom to beg for help and mercy.

The entire Faili Kurds population was handed over by a legal government to a professional murderers who were organized by the Iraqi authorities and trained to hunt and kill, with one single provision, that the entire Faili Kurds people either be extradited or murdered, men and women, old and young, healthy, sick, and children.

For many years, the Faili Kurds people had deep ties to their motherland Iraq. They had lived there for centuries and they were part of Iraq’s economical and social growth. In Iraq, nearly two-thirds of the Faili Kurds people were engaged in trade and commerce, some of them worked in industry, and a good number of them were in the public service.

Prior to Iraq’s and Iran’s war, the Faili Kurds socioeconomic position was overwhelmingly middle and upper class. The Faili Kurds people did not see themselves as a separate national minority within the community in which they lived. They claimed to differ from other Iraqi citizens only in respect to their distinctive ethnic background and their desire was always for the same full and equal rights as the rest of the populations.

They felt they were an integral part of the community in terms of nationality and shared faith and culture. But the bloody Saddam and his followers made a prejudice decision to extradite and slay them in a very inhumane way.

It took the Faili Kurds people nearly forty years before their survivors began to talk about their genocide. It took time for the Faili Kurds people to open-up and to speak of the horror they endured and saw during Saddam’s time. It took them a long time to start trusting other people and share their sorrow with them.

Our old generation is beginning to speak about their experiences and horrors for the benefit of educating their children and their grandchildren. The victims of the Faili Kurds Holocaust are engaged in massive efforts to leave public records for their community and the whole world.

Our new generation has the responsibility to make sure that the Faili Kurds Holocaust will be remembered for ever. They must set it down in an unprecedented volume of journal testimonies, news articles, and oral histories. Whatever we report, write, and document should be a public record for our generation to come.

Because, for many years, the Faili Kurds people were considered to be a hazardous community to Iraq’s social structure and they needed to be eliminated from Iraq’s culture. Thus, the Faili Kurds were subject to massive and inhumane deportation and immense execution, and they had no escape from it.

Dr. Ala Musa Hasan, a Canada-based Faili Kurd, PHD Candidates in Clinical Psychology.

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