al-ʿAdnānīya

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al-ʿAdnānīya
location
al-ʿAdnānīya (Iraq)
al-ʿAdnānīya
al-ʿAdnānīya
Coordinates 36 ° 11 ′  N , 41 ° 46 ′  E Coordinates: 36 ° 11 ′  N , 41 ° 46 ′  E
Country IraqIraq Iraq
Governorate Ninawa
District Sinjar
Basic data
Residents 18,000 (July 2014)

Al-ʿAdnānīya ( Arabic العدنانية, DMG al-'Adnānīya ) or Gir Zerk (also Gir Terek , Gir Zerik ) is a jesidisches village in the north of Iraq . It is located in the Sinjar district , south of the Sinjar Mountains and about 15 km southwest of the capital of the same name ( Sinjar ) of the district in the Ninawa governorate . The place is one of the disputed areas of Northern Iraq .

history

Al-ʿAdnānīya (Gir Zerk) is a so-called model village (also called muǧammaʿāt) and was founded between 1965 and the 1970s. For the settlement of the Yazidis other Yazidi villages were depopulated. In 1965, the then Iraqi government decided to destroy the Yazidi villages of Jabal Sinjar and to force the residents to relocate. The 400 or so Yazidi villages of Jebel Sinjar were partially bulldozed and the residents were driven out. The Ba'ath regime called these forced resettlement measures modernization projects.

In the 1970s, many Yazidi residents from al-ʿAdnānīya (Gir Zerk) were forcibly relocated to Siba Sheikh Khidir (al-Jazirah) by the then Iraqi government.

Since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the village has been occupied by Kurdish Peshmerga troops, who fled the village on August 2, 2014.

On August 3, 2014, the Islamic State raided the village and took total control of the entire Sinjar region and committed genocide against the Yazidis . On May 25, 2017, Iraqi forces and Yazidi militias liberated the village from IS.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emerging Land Tenure Issues among Displaced Yazidis from Sinjar, Iraq. (PDF) In: United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN – Habitat). November 2015, accessed December 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ BVwG L507 2123711-1 - Finding (full text): RDB legal database. Retrieved January 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Irene Dulz: The Yezidis in Iraq: between "model village" and escape . LIT Verlag Münster, 2001, ISBN 978-3-8258-5704-2 , p. 54–55 ( google.de [accessed on August 8, 2019]).
  4. ^ Otmar Oehring: CHRISTIANS AND YAZIDIS IN IRAQ: CURRENT SITUATION AND PROSPECTS. (PDF) In: Konrad Adenauer Foundation . P. 92 , accessed on January 29, 2019 (English, German).
  5. ↑ Iraq's Disputed Territories. (PDF) In: United States Institute of Peace . Retrieved January 21, 2018 .