Hardan (Ninawa)
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 29 ′ N , 42 ° 6 ′ E | ||
| Country |
 Iraq
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| Governorate | Ninawa | ||
| District | Sinjar | ||
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| Residents | 1,917 (July 2014) | ||
Hardan ( Arabic حردان) 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
On August 3, 2014, fighters from the Islamic State conquered the village and drove out the Yazidi population. They were supported by Sunnis from the neighboring villages. On December 19, 2015, Kurdish Peshmerga managed to recapture them. Several mass graves were found during the excavation of defensive positions. It is believed that the dead were 530 missing residents of the village. Before the attack, there were 200 families in Hardan. Around 7,000 Yazidis are said to have been murdered in Hardan and the surrounding villages in the first days of August 2014.
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 11, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Newsobserver.com: Grisly finds in Iraqi Yazidi village wrested from militants , December 24, 2014 , accessed on February 1, 2015.
- ↑ Iran German Radio: 9 mass graves with Yazidis discovered in Iraq , December 31, 2014 , accessed on February 1, 2015.
- ↑ heute.de: Mass graves in Iraq , February 1, 2015 ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 1, 2015.
- ↑ This is how a Yazidis escaped the horror of IS. May 24, 2016, accessed December 11, 2018 .
