Sinun

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Sinun
location
Sinun (Iraq)
Sinun
Sinun
Coordinates 36 ° 27 '  N , 41 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 36 ° 27 '  N , 41 ° 42'  E
Country IraqIraq Iraq
Governorate Ninawa
District Sinjar
Basic data
height 500  m
Residents 16,798 (July 2014)
View of the city of Sinun
View of the city of Sinun

Sinun (also Sinune , Kurmanji Sinunê, Arabic سنوني, DMG Sinūnī ) is a small Yezidi town in the north of Iraq . The city 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

Sinun 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 August 2014, the city was attacked by the Islamic State and brought under their control. ISIS was later driven out of the city and the entire Sinjar region and the place is considered liberated and recaptured. Even so, few residents have returned to the city.

population

To the population's Sinun 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 city's residents are currently living in refugee camps in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region .

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. ↑ Andrea Jeska: Where else could we live? A visit to Yazidis in Northern Iraq . In: Welthungerhilfe.de - For a world without hunger and poverty . ( welthungerhilfe.de [accessed November 30, 2018]).
  3. ^ Otmar Oehring: Christians and Yazidis in Iraq: Current Situation and Perspectives. In: Konrad Adenauer Foundation. P. 92 , accessed November 30, 2018 .
  4. ↑ 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]).
  5. ↑ a b Elke Dangeleit: Northern Iraq: Yazidis fear expulsions again. Accessed November 30, 2018 (German).
  6. ↑ Sinjar Mountains in Northern Iraq - Hesitant return of the Yazidis . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed November 30, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Hope in ruins . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed November 30, 2018]).