Approximately one million people, the overwhelming majority of whom were Iraqi citizens, were forcibly deported to Iran between April 1980 and 1990. The deportations commenced six months prior to the start of the Iraq/Iran war. The deportees were accused of being of Iranian origin and therefore sent back to Iran. Their belongings and documents, including their homes, businesses, passports and Iraqi citizenship documents were confiscated.
To silence protest on the part of the deportees and prevent retaliatory action, the Iraqi authorities detained members of each family as hostages, approximately one detainee for every 10 deportees, giving about 100,000 detainees. The majority of these hostages were men aged between 16 and 40.
Many of these hostages were subsequently released. Foreign nationals, other than Iranians, were released first. Non-Moslem Iranians were released next. This was followed by the release of some of the detainees with immediate family members still living in Iraq. Lastly some of the detainees, the whole of whose immediate families had already been deported and who were not doing military service at the time of arrest were released from custody and immediately deported.
The remainder of the hostages were accused of being Or Iranian origin, although a large proportion of them were doing military service. and Iraqi law only allows Iraqi citizens to serve in the army. The 'civilian' detainees also all had Iraqi citizenship.
Between 1986 and 1989 a further small number of hostages with immediate family members still living in Iraq were released. During the eight-year Iraq/Iran war (1980-88) some of the hostages were sent to the war. Other hostages died from disease or as a result of the harsh conditions and inhuman treatment in their places of detention.
Most of these hostages were well educated and they included lawyers. teachers, doctors, university lecturers and students, business people and high-ranking military officers.
Unfortunately the Iraqi Government has not yet released any information about these hostages. At present the Committee has the names and details of 935 of the hostages remaining in detention and knows of at least another three thousand, whose families have not given the Committee information for fear of reprisals. However, due to lack of information from the Iraqi authorities, it is very difficult to arrive at a precise figure for the number of people remaining in detention. This may be anything from about four thousand to many times that number.
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Cyxares 2 years ago
whahahha your channel is full of shit ..
KurdFaylee 2 years ago
in zabane faylee hast??
shenidam zabane gorani va faylee be farsi nazdik hast,
doroste?
weissmann07 2 years ago 10
baleh ..
zabane gorani fekr nakonam ba farsi nazdik bashe .. wali zabune faylee .. baleh jekam nazdike be farsi :D
KurdFaylee 2 years ago
kurdaye faeyli to iran ziyad hastand, kheyliashoon az iraq omadand, vali hamashoon irano vatane khod midoonand.
kurdha hame asliyateshoon irani hastan, iran faghat vase farsa nist vase hameye iranic people hast.
doorood be kurdhaye aziz.
weissmann07 2 years ago 11
baleh harfetun doroste ...
kheiliashun asliateshun iranian ... chun ta salhaje 1920 iran boedan ... ke je moshkeli shod beyne kurdaje feyli wa shah ... ke az iran endakhtaneshun birun .. wa be in dalil raftan iraq.. bad. ta salhaje 1970 wa 80 iraq boedan .. ke saddam umad kheiliashuno kosht wa baziashun ham endakht kenare marze iran .. ke dobare kurdaje feyli umadan tuje iran zendegi kardan .. albate hamashun na .. hanuz ham tuje iraq kurdaje feyli hastan :D
KurdFaylee 2 years ago