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Faili Kurds case trial starts in October
24.8.2008
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August 24, 2008
BAGHDAD, Iraq,— The trial of the 16
defendants on the Faili Kurds case will start next
October, the president of Iraq's Higher Criminal
Court (IHCC) revealed on Sunday.
"The IHCC will hold its first session to try
defendants on the Faili Kurds case next October,"
Judge Aref al-Shahin told VOI.
Lawmaker Amer Thamir, a member of parliament from
al-Tadamun bloc,www.ekurd.net
which represents Faili
Kurds, had recently said that Faili Kurds had been
subjected to forced relocation by the former regime.
Several International organizations estimated that
nearly one million Iraqi Faili Kurds were displaced
by force between the years 1970 and 1990.
The defendants on this case are Saadoun Shakir,
Tareq Aziz, Fadel Sulfeij al-Azzawi, Watban Ibrahim
al-Hassan, Sabaawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, Ahmed Hussein,
Mazban Khedr Hadi, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saber al-Dori,
Aziz Saleh al-Nawman, Abdelhamid Soliman, Saad Saleh
Ahmed Sultan, Muhammad Khudeir al-Halboussi, Fadel
Abbas al-Aamiri, Nu'man Ali al-Tikriti and Iyad Taha
Shihab.
Faili Kurds are a group of people of Iranian stock
living in Baghdad and Diala province, around
Khanaqin and Mandili.
Failis speak Faili, a dialect of the Pahlawani. The
roots of the Failis go back to the Aryan immigrants
of the first millennium BC, and more specifically,
the Parthian/Pahlawi/Pahlawanid settlements of the
2nd century BD.
They embraced Islam in the early stages of the
Islamic conquest and colonization of Mesopotamia
(Iraq) and Iran, though archeological evidence from
the Ilam province in Iran indicates that a
significant proportion of Failis were Nestorian
Christians until the 18th Century.
When the Safavid dynasty (1507-1721) held sway over
Persia,www.ekurd.net
Faili Kurds switched to
the Shiite Jaafari doctrine under Persian influence.
In modern times the Failis have been subject to
state persecutions. They are considered as a
stateless people, with both Iran and Iraq claiming
they are citizens of the other country.
In mid-1970s, Iraq expelled around 40,000 Shiite
Faili Kurds who had lived for generations near
Baghdad and Khanaqin, alleging that they were
Iranian nationals.
Copyright, respective author or news agency, VOI
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