Dohula
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 29 ′ N , 41 ° 49 ′ E | ||
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 Iraq
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| Governorate | Ninawa | ||
| District | Sinjar | ||
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| height | 480 m | ||
| Residents | 13,516 (July 2014) | ||
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Dohula (also Duhola , Dhola , Dohola or Dohla , Arabic دهولا, also Qadisiyah ) is a Yazidi village in northern Iraq . The village is located in the Sinjar district north of the Jabal Sinjar in the Ninawa governorate . The place is one of the disputed areas of Northern Iraq .
history
Dohula 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.
Like the entire Sinjar region and the entire Ninawa province, Dohula has been one of the disputed areas of northern Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 . The village was controlled by Kurdish Perschmerga until August 2014 .
In August 2014, the village was attacked by the Islamic State and brought under their control. The IS was later driven out of the village and the entire Sinjar region and the place is considered liberated and recaptured. Even so, only a few residents have returned to the village.
The village is currently controlled by Yazidi armed forces .
population
To the population Dohulas include only Yazidi . As a result of the genocide of the Yazidis in 2014, these were abducted, murdered or expelled by IS . Many of the village's residents are currently living in refugee camps in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 .
- ^ Otmar Oehring: Christians and Yazidis in Iraq: Current Situation and Perspectives. In: Konrad Adenauer Foundation. P. 92 , accessed November 30, 2018 .
- ↑ 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 February 27, 2019]).
- ^ Human Rights Watch. Retrieved November 30, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Elke Dangeleit: Northern Iraq: Yazidis fear expulsions again. Accessed November 30, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Sinjar Mountains in Northern Iraq - Hesitant return of the Yazidis . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed November 30, 2018]).
- ↑ Barzani's defeat in Sindschar - derStandard.at. Retrieved November 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Hope in ruins . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed November 30, 2018]).