al-Qahtaniyah (Sinjar)
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 12 ′ N , 41 ° 41 ′ E | ||
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| Governorate | Ninawa | ||
| District | Sinjar | ||
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| Residents | 28,000 (July 2014) | ||
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Al-Qahtaniyya ( Arabic القحطانية, DMG al-Qahtaniyah ) or Til Ezer (also Giruzer , Kurmanji til Ezer) is a jesidisches village in the north of Iraq . It is located in the Sinjar district , south of the Sinjar Mountains and about 18 km southwest of the capital of the same name in the district in the Ninawa governorate . The place is one of the disputed areas of Northern Iraq . The place gained international fame through the attack in Sinjar on August 14, 2007.
history
Al-Qahtaniyya (Til Ezer) 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.
After the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the village was occupied by Kurdish Peshmerga troops, who fled the village on August 2, 2014.
On August 14, 2007, four trucks exploded in al-Qahtaniyah and the neighboring town of Siba Sheikh Khidir (al-Jazirah), killing 796 people. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack.
On August 3, 2014, IS fighters occupied the village; they 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
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ Number of dead after attacks increased to 500. Der Tagesspiegel , August 16, 2007, accessed on October 28, 2014 .
- ↑ 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]).
- ↑ Iraq's Disputed Territories. (PDF) In: United States Institute of Peace . Retrieved January 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Udo Witzens: Abysses of violence: The greatest outrage in world history . TWENTYSIX, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7407-5666-6 , p. 608 .