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Feyli Kurds case trial begins in Baghdad
26.1.2009
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January
26, 2009
BAGHDAD, —
The trial of the 16 defendants in the Feyli Kurds
case began today, the president of Iraq’s Higher
Criminal Court (IHCC) said on Monday.
“The session was presided over by Judge Raouf
Rasheed,” Judge Aref Shahin told AAI news agency.
Several International organizations estimated that
nearly one million Iraqi Feyli Kurds were displaced
by force between the years 1970 and 1990.
The defendants on this case are Sadoun Shakir, Tareq
Aziz, Fadel Sulfeij al-Azzawi, Watban Ibrahim
al-Hassan, Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, Ahmed Hussein,
Mazban Khedr Hadi, Ali Hassan al-Majeed, 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.
Feyli Kurds are a group of people of Iranian stock
living in Baghdad and Diala province, around
Khanaqin and Mandili.
Feylis speak Feyli, a dialect of the Pahlawani. The
roots of the Feylis go back to the Aryan immigrants
of the first millennium BC, and more specifically,
the Parthian/Pahlawi/Pahlawanid settlements of the
2nd century BD.
Feyli Kurds are largely a Shi'a community living in
Baghdad and the Diyala Province of Iraq around
Khanaqin and Mandali ( a Kurdish areas outside the
semi-autonomous Kurdistan region). They are an
estimated 2-3 million Feylis living in Iraq.
They embraced Islam in the early stages of the
Islamic conquest and colonization of Mesopotamia
(Iraq) and Iran,www.ekurd.net
though archeological
evidence from the Ilam province in Iran indicates
that a significant proportion of Feylis were
Nestorian Christians until the 18th Century.
When the Safavid dynasty (1507-1721) held sway over
Persia,www.ekurd.net
Feyli Kurds switched to
the Shiite Jaafari doctrine under Persian influence.
In modern times the Feylis 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
Feyli Kurds who had lived for generations near
Baghdad and Khanaqin, alleging that they were
Iranian nationals.
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