The Faili Kurds Holocausts

Dr. Ala Musa Hasan | Exclusive to iKurd.net

The whole world still remains talking about the Jewish Holocausts from generation to generation, and they have the propensity to overlook the Faili’s Kurds Holocausts. The entire world needs to know that the same thing did happen to the Faili Kurds during the bloody Saddam’s regime.

During that gloomy era of the 1980, a large segment of the Faili (Feyli) population in Baghdad was forcibly deported to the Iranian border by the Iraqi police and its intelligence units.

Their properties were seized, their youths from ages of 17-28 years old were incarcerated in Abu-Ghareeb Jail for no reason, and later on they were all innocently murdered and berried in mass graves that still up to date most of them still missing.

As well as, their families, children and elders were placed at the Iranian Borders and some of them died at the boarders and their bodies were left there unburied. As well as, they were stripped of their legal documents and citizenship, and their dignity and Human rights were inadequately violated.

Most of these targeted Faili families had a significant influence on the large spectrum of the Iraqi’s economy and society. During that time, the Failis Kurds have had a great economical and commercial weight in Baghdad and other regions of Iraq. They owned many businesses, properties, and construction trade. As well as, many of the Faili Kurds had a high level of education, commercial success in the market, and some of them had a higher ranking position in the military forces.

The wealth and the prestige of the Faili Kurds pushed the voracious and the bloody Saddam to confiscate their businesses, capitals, properties, youths, and expel them to Iran, claiming that the Faili Kurds are not a genuine Iraqi citizens, but instead that they are Iranians citizens.

Unfortunately, during the current Iraqi regime, the Faili Kurds Holocausts is not truly acknowledged and their basic Human Rights are not being addressed yet. Yes, there are too many talks for election purposes, but no real action thus far.

Not to mentioned that the existence of the Faili’s Kurds in Iraq are never been marginalized, and they still considered a second class citizen, even though they have participated in all political, social, cultural, and economical activities of Iraq.

During that time, I was almost 17 years old and I was wrongly separated from my family and placed in Abu-Ghareeb Jail for few months, and my family (my mother and my four brothers and two sisters) were deported to Iran and they experienced a very hardship living there without my father whom was arrested one month before our deportation by the Iraqi Intelligent Unit and later on, in 1982, he was unjustly executed and berried in the mass grave of Mohammad Sakran Grave.

As a survival of Abu-Ghareeb Jail, I will begin to write about my biography and the adversity that I experienced in Abu-Ghareeb prison and the life journey that I had to go through as a survival of the Faili Kurds Holocaust.

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

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