the faylee kurd hostage's part 1الكورد الفيلية الكرد الفيليين

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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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  • im Iranian but may Khoda rahmate shahidanetun koneh inshallah & lanate saddame adam kosh inshallah! be omidze azadi iran va baradaraye kordemun!!!

  • we will win but it will take a much longer time but we must stand together. the problem is everyone is running for themselves they don't stop and care about thier family or neighbour this is wrong especially when there is not many of us faylee. bedbekgged wallah. btw does anyone know this song or name????

  • @mEmOk8 All kurds is from Kurdistan. ALL the kurds were united brefore but then they split during world war 2.....

  • @lina44r His name is Adnan, do you know him?

  • fayle will never be from iraq they are irani only the iraqi north are iraqi kurds so fyles are from iran go back too iran

  • biji kurd u kurdistan.

    We need to unite once and for all to prevent atrocities like these and the others happening again!!

    thanks kurdfaylee :)

  • We never forget our Faylee brothers , They deported you becouse you are real kurds and they couldnt see the fact that Faylee kurds are the power of culture, arts, economy and intellect in Baghdad, when you left , Baghda became the city of madness and now we see that madness without you. God bless Faylee , We love you

  • I miss Ilam!

    It's been freakin' 4 years since the last time I visited. Damn.. :(

    I love my people!

  • That's my name : FAYLEE . I'm one of a kind and don't try to change it!!!! Lol!!

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