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    Dispersion of the Yazidi Nation in Syria, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia and
    Europe: Call for UN Action

    Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
    February 28, 2010



    In several previous articles, I republished calls and articles
    elaborated by Aramaeans (Oriental Christians) and Turkmens (Sunni
    Muslims) denouncing the grave degradation of Human Rights and the
    prevailing terror campaign in North Iraq which has been undertaken by
    the pseudo-Kurdish groups of the war criminals Talabani and Barzani,
    and promoted with the US-UK help.

    In the Fall 2008, I dedicated two articles to the unbearable
    persecution carried out against the Yazidis, calling for the formation
    an independent Yazidi state to avert a genocide performed against
    them. Quite unfortunately, in the span of the last 15 months, the
    situation in the land of Yazidis worsened dramatically. The links to
    my articles are here:

    http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/v iew/79908

    http://www.americanchronicle.com/articl es/view/83259

    In an article published yesterday under the title "Iraq: Yazidi
    Minority Calls for Help Against Al Qaeda "Kurdish" Terrorists Talebani
    and Barzani", I republished part of a dramatic call expressed by Dr.
    Mirza H. Dinnayi, Yazidi Intellectual and Coordinator of Yezidi
    Community in Europe. With the present article I complete the
    republication of Dr. Mirza H. Dinnayi´s call. In several forthcoming
    articles, I will further expand on the subject that must draw an
    urgent attention due to the precipitated deterioration in North Iraq
    and the rise in force of an Al Qaeda terrorist state controlled by the
    criminal gangs of the pseudo-Kurdish thugs Talabani and Barzani with
    Freemasonic support from the UK - French - US adminsitrations.



    Mirza Donnayi: The Future Prospects for Yezidis

    The Situation of the Yezidi Minority - A Short Report

    By Dr. Mirza H. Dinnayi

    Former Iraqi President´s Advisor for Minority Affairs

    Coordinator of Yezidi Community in Europe

    http://www.ahrata.com/index.php?option=3Dc om_content&view=3Darticle&id=3D82:mirza-do nnayi-the-future-prospects-for-yezidis&catid=3 D1:latest-news&Itemid=3D50

    3. Situation of Yezidis in Syria

    Yezidis live in east Syria in both provinces Aleppo and Hassake. They
    suffer from double discrimination due to their religious as well as
    their ethnical identities. The situation for them is very strained;
    they live in areas which are extremely neglected. They could be
    attacked from the neighbour tribes at any time. Several Yezidi women
    were kidnapped and forced to get marry with Muslims. They become no
    protection from the Syrian authorities if there is any pursuit or
    conflict with other population groups. This discrimination is
    representing in all visions of their life, i.e. Yezidi farmers can not
    sell their goods (milk, cheese, meat=80¦ etc.). Muslims believe that
    the Yezidis are not God worshipers, so it is not allowed to deal with
    their farm products. The badly is, that such fanatic movements are
    going to be stronger and harder.

    This means that the daily conflicts with the neighbours have one
    reason: This minority is not only a defenseless group but it is also a
    society whom life has very gloomy future perspectives. Also the
    ethnical community is frequently ignored hereby. On the other hand it
    is important to say, that there are also in this area persons and
    groups, who recognize the identity of the Yezidis, and achieve it as
    the origin of all Kurds, they use this argument sometimes for their
    own purposes. But this "acceptance" in the Kurdish community is
    unfortunately very weak according to the "non acceptance wave".

    The forms of persecuting of Yezidis are physical abusing, removal or
    destruction of agricultural effective areas, robbery and theft of
    cattle and furniture as well as the kidnapping of Yezidi girls. There
    are many examples for such tragedies. Thousands of Yezidis like other
    Kurds are regarded as (homeless). They have no civil rights in the
    country; therefore they can expect no assistance from authority and
    religious institutions. Yezidis are forced to learn and practice
    Islamic law, differently than the Christians in the region, who must
    not follow the religious requirements of Islam.

    Since end of the seventies and beginning eighties leave Yezidis their
    region and migrate to Europe, particularly into the Federal Republic
    of Germany. More than 50% of the Yezidi population left Syria in the
    last 20 years.

    The events of March 2004 in the Kurdish regions played a negative
    influence on the situation of Yezidis also. A Yezidi young man was
    arrested and tortured up to death during his military service. This
    makes the brutal reality, the Yezidis might be punished anytime and
    even they have no role in the conflicts between Syrian government and
    Kurdish community. There are many examples of such conflicts.


    4. Situation of Yezidis in the Turkey

    The most of the experts reported about the bad situation of Yezidis in
    the Turkey. It is important to say, that the Turkish authorities are
    still now against recognizing of Yezidis as an independent religion.
    Their identity in the Turkey is written as ´Unbeliever´. There is no
    registration of this religion. They were living under miserable
    conditions of non acceptance & discrimination. The most of them are
    emigrated in the last 20 years because of persecuting, war and
    permanent attacks. The population of Yezidis in the Turkey has
    decreased from 30.000 in 1982 to less than 500 persons last year.
    Yezidi students have to learn Islam in the schools.

    5. Situation of Yezidis in Armenia & Georgia

    Yezidi society is the greatest minority in Armenia. There are more the
    250.000 Yezidis who are originated from Armenia and Georgia. The
    community makes 2 4% of the population of Armenia. The authors
    Alexanian & Liankevich wrote about the situation of Yezidis the
    following:

    The Yezidis, also known as Yezidi Kurds, are Armenia´s largest
    minority community. Life is hard but generally they do not blame
    Armenians and have good relations with them. Their main complaints are
    against the Armenian government.

    Under the "Life is hard" the authors mean:

    Difficult social conditions have caused many to emigrate, especially
    to Russia, over the last few years. Around fifty families have left
    the village of Zovuni in the Kotaik region alone. During land
    privatisation in 2002, many Yezidis lost their pastures and were
    unable to press their case with the authorities.... The Yezidis have
    no representatives in the government or parliament.

    The future of Yezidis is not certain. The future of Armenia´s Yezidis
    depends crucially on the next children keeping the culture and
    language. Currently Armenia has no Yezidi schools or textbooks and all
    education is done in Armenian. (Alexanian & Liankevich 2005)

    The reports about the situation of human rights are also not
    positive. The report of US State Department 2006 explains:

    There were reports that hazing of new conscripts was more severe for
    minority group members such as Yezidis and Jehovah's Witnesses. Some
    Yezidi leaders reported that police and local authorities subjected
    their religious community to discrimination. Other Yezidi leaders
    denied the allegations.

    In Georgia live Yezidis mainly in Tiflis. The perspectives of life are
    not better. Yezidi experts explain the bad situation in both countries
    with following points:

    1. The Yezidi society has no civil rights. There are no free Yezidi
    schools or

    organisations.

    2. The extreme nationalists and fanatics force Yezidis to migrate. At
    the same time neglect the national authorities this discrimination.
    They participate with their ignorance indirectly in persecuting of
    Yezidi community.

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    3. The bad social and economic situation of Yezidis forced them to
    migrate toward other former USSR-countries. Some of them are forced to
    convert their religion to become economic supports from the missionary
    organisations.

    6. Situation of Yezidi Refugees Abroad

    6.1. Yezidis are escaping from Iraq.

    The discrimination and pursuit of minorities, especially Yezidis, in
    the last three years are the cause of a mass displacement of them,
    particularly after the last attack in Sinjar. According to the
    statistics and documentation of our community:

    1. There are more than 50.000 Yezidis who registered themselves in the
    UNHCR office in Damascus. Some of them returned back to Iraq, another
    groups are still waiting in Syria to migrate toward Europe.

    2. There are now in the other neighbour countries like Turkey hundreds
    of Yezidi

    families, who are escaping with deferent legal and illegal ways from
    Iraq to Europe.

    The target of these people is to save their families from terrorists.
    These refuges are in the most of the time victims of smugglers in
    Istanbul and in the other cities. For e.g. a band of Turkish smugglers
    took more than 300 illegal refuges (280 persons were Yezidis) by ship
    from Turkey to Greek. They left these people more than 10 days in the
    see, without eating and drinking. According to our information, there
    is a flow of Yezidis of about 500 persons monthly, traveling outside
    of Iraq.

    6.2. Yezidi Refugees in Germany

    The number of Yezidi people in Germany is about 60.000. The majority
    is coming from Turkey. Iraqi Yezidis are about 20.000 persons, 2000 of
    them were coming in the last six months. The federal office of
    migration and refuges in Germany (Bundesamt für Migration und
    Flüchtlinge) decided to accept Yezidis, Christians and Mandean as
    persecuted groups in Iraq. It is enough for the German offices to be
    member of one of these groups in order to become refugee according to
    the § 60 Paragraph no. 1-7 of the Accommodation´s Law
    (Aufenthaltsgesetz, § 60 Abs. 1-7).

    6.3. Yezidi Refugees in Sweden

    The number of Yezidi people in Sweden is about 4000. Most of them came
    within the last two years. There are more than 1500 Yezidis in Sweden
    who have not got the right to stay; they are still waiting of
    recognizing them.

    There is a hope that Swedish government and migration offices in
    Sweden recognize these people and facilitate the process of granting
    them the right of asylum, in the same easy and quick procedure that
    has been undertaken for Yezidis by Germany and other EU countries,
    because they have no chance to return back to Iraq.

    7 The Statement for our European Friends

    Our people in Iraq are in need of your help. And we hope that you can
    do something for them. We ask for your solidarity and humanitarian
    support. We will be pleased if you give these people a new chance to
    live in peace. There are now hundreds of orphans and poor families,
    victims of the terror attacks. Most of them need urgent aid, nobody
    dose anything for them. They are waiting of foreign help.

    We will be very happy if you help us to rebuild our villages and to
    help the victims to be treated. Our charitable foundation (Yezidi
    Unterstützungsverein e. V.) is now operating a humanitarian campaign
    for the victims, but we are depended of any support especially from
    Sweden and Germany.

    To solve the problem of Yezidi minority in Iraq:

    a) We ask for international assistance and solidarity with Yezidi and
    other minorities in the Iraq.

    b) We ask the European Union countries to exert more political
    pressure to change this bad situation of Yezidi in Iraq. The non
    muslin minorities in Iraq, especially Yezidi are in need of the
    international protection in order to live peacefully in their country.

    c) We have a humanitarian project to support the victims of the terror
    attack in Sinjar, especially children and women. The concept of this
    project (Help Centre for the Orphans and Terror Victims) is to help
    the victims socially and psychologically. Our centre in Sinjar is now
    supporting 50 Orphans and 30 families. Our goal is to support all 228
    Orphans and 100 helpless women, to be realized it needs foreign
    donation.

    d) The Yezidi Community and its associations are interested to inform
    and explain the danger of migration outside of Iraq. Our goal is not
    to move Yezidis from Iraq toward Europe, but to find peace for them in
    their country. This can be done through organizing workshops, seminars
    and newspaper and media campaigns. The Yezidi Community is planning to
    start this campaign in April 2008. We hope that Swedish government
    help us by this campaign. It is our interest and in the interest EU
    Countries that this migration wave will be stopped.

    e) We would like to start a campaign under the "Iraqi religions
    working for peace". Such project could educate the Iraqi people;
    Yezidis, Muslims, Christians and others the culture of peace and
    culture of "Living together". This project needs European support.

    Yezidi Community in Europe

    Head Organisation of the Yezidi Associations in EU Countries, and the
    attached charitable foundation (Yezidi Unterstützungsverein e. V.)
    support people in need.

    Address:

    YUV e. V.

    Bonhoefferstr. 7, D-30457 Hannover

    Tel. 0049-15110625620

    Email: [email protected]

    Registration no. by Tax office: 16/200/83083

    Registration number: 120240 at the district court Hildesheim, Germany

    Bank account number : 900 329 130 / Bank code (BLZ) : 250 501 80

    Bank Name: Sparkasse Hannover

    IBAN: DE67 250501800 900329130

    BIC: SPKHDE2H

    Note 1

    Dr. Mirza H. Dinnayi can be contacted here:

    Phone: 0049-15110625620

    Email: [email protected]

    Note 2

    The variants Yazidis and Yezidis reflect merely a different
    vocalization of the name in Western languages; in this regard, I
    personally agree with the choice made by the Wikipedia, but both forms
    are valid.

    Note 3

    In my book The Six Stars of the Orient (Athens, 1994 / book review
    available here: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/439 04),
    and more specifically on its third chapter which was focused on Amida
    / Diyarbakir, I dedicated several pages on the Yazidis (equally
    present in Turkey), their religion, their Holy Book (Mas-haf-e Ras)
    and their philosophical doctrine. As the whole book is available for
    online reading (jpeg docs), I add here the links to the pages about
    the Yazidis (in Modern Greek):

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    Note

    Picture: Malek Tawus, the King Angel - Emanation of God, who created
    the world, key element of the Yazidi Religion. By Yazidis, Malek Tawus
    has been envisioned as peacock as his name (tawus) suggests. The word
    is Indo-European of origin attested in Farsi and Ancient Greek.




    http://www.americanchronicle.com/articl es/view/143737
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