Siba Sheikh Khidir
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 11 ′ N , 41 ° 46 ′ E | ||
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 Iraq
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| Governorate | Ninawa | ||
| District | Sinjar | ||
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| Residents | 23,000 (July 2014) | ||
Siba Sheikh Khidir ( kurmanji Siba Şêx Xidir ) or al-Jazira (also al-Jazirah ) ( Arabic الجزيرة, DMG al-Ǧazīrā ) 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 . The place gained international fame in 2007 through the attack in Sinjar .
history
Siba Sheikh Khidir (al-Ǧazīra) 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, Yazidi residents from neighboring villages such as B. al-Adnaniya (Gir Zerk) was forcibly relocated to Siba Sheikh Khidir by the Iraqi government at the time.
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 14, 2007, four trucks exploded in Siba Sheikh Khidir and the neighboring town of al-Qaḥṭānīya (Til Ezer), killing 796 people. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack.
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 . 47 people were killed and 107 kidnapped in Siba Sheikh Khidir. On May 25, 2017, Iraqi forces and Yazidi militias liberated the village from IS.
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 on January 28, 2019 .
- ↑ BVwG L507 2123711-1 - Finding (full text): RDB legal database. Retrieved January 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Number of dead after attacks increased to 500. Der Tagesspiegel , August 16, 2007, accessed on January 28, 2019 .
- ↑ 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]).
- ^ 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).
- ↑ Iraq's Disputed Territories. (PDF) In: United States Institute of Peace . Accessed January 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Udo Witzens: Abysses of violence: The greatest outrage in world history . TWENTYSIX, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7407-5666-6 ( here in the Google book search [accessed on January 28, 2019]).