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1) Last week the #Yazidi community lost a true hero. Jameel Ghanem Chomer was a pivotal and constant figure of the humanitarian and advocacy response to the #YazidiGenocide. 
2) This man’s life deserves a much greater tribute than I can offer, but I do want to share some comments and images about his story and his service.
3) Jameel was a schoolteacher from Borek on the north side of #Sinjar Mountain. His family fled from the Islamic State (IS) attack on the morning of the genocide (Aug. 3, 2014).
strange piece about #kurdistan in #iraq. the 2017 referendum was a political calculation of the #barzani clan to distract from domestic problems and rally people around the flag, the clans in charge are extremely nepotist and corrupt, and not progressive. blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2022/11/11…
the #kurdistan region in #iraq is *not* a model of democracy, and also not of religious freedom: christians, yezidis or others who don't align with the ruling #clans and mainly the #barzani clan (posing as political party #kdp) have nothing to say.
whenever i think of #kurdistan in #iraq breaking away as just one piece of a much larger kurdistan, i can't stop but thinking of what repercussions it may have for #kurds elsewhere in authoritarian states. ultimate repercussion, i mean, as an echo from history.
#Hewlêr: A report by the "Voice of America" website revealed, that the #KDP authorities in Başûrê Kurdistan have arrested dozens of activists and journalists who participated and covered the recent protests, including children.
The report stated that the journalists were taken very quickly to the security headquarters where they were interrogated, while the reporter "Sanur Karim" said that she saw in the detention center a large number of teenagers who were sitting on the ground with armed guards
The report quoted one of the guards as saying that among the detainees was a 12 years old boy. The report confirmed that KDP forced the detainees to unlock their phones, and that KDP was taking the phones and possibly copying the data in them without a court order.
1) This beautiful drawing of Salih Nasir Naso, a twelve-year-old #Yazidi boy murdered by #Turkey in #Sinjar on Wednesday, was done by @HishamHaji2:
2) The girl in the drawing is Salih’s sister, seen in a video captured moments after the bombings, screaming for help on the street, and saying "my brother is in there." At the end of the video she walks past a business named after Nadia Murad.
3) The U.S. is comfortable with Turkey murdering Yazidi children in the name of its “security.” Turkish bombings of Shingal are now in their sixth year. If the U.S. had a problem with it, it would have taken action by now.
1) Two+ weeks of violence in #Shingal—following the Iraqi army mobilizing to force-implement the Sinjar Agreement—recently ended. Time for a THREAD on the reasons why the #Sinjar Agreement was unworkable from its inception, and why its implementation will harm the #Yazidi people.
2) Recap—In the past month: Masrour visited Erdogan; Turkey then subsequently launched a new anti-PKK campaign in Iraq ; Kadhimi simultaneously ordered the Iraqi army to mobilize against the #YBŞ, which produced two weeks of hostilities; thousands of #Yazidis were displaced; >
3) Iraq imprisoned two foreign journalists visiting Sinjar; Iran-aligned militias shelled the Turkish military base near Ba‘shiqa & Erbil-based oil installations; Kadhimi appointed Nineveh’s governor as acting head of Sinjar District and then reversed the appointment.
YPG Press center: On April 26, #KDP claimed that the People's Protection Units (#YPG) sent confiscated military equipment to the city of Dohuk. We as the YPG have no connection with this equipment that was confiscated in Dohuk.
YPG Press center: According to the prosecution, it was also said that this equipment was sent by one of the leaders of the People's Protection Units, Rodi Hassan, but this name is not in our ranks, this event and what is said by the KDP is not true.
YPG Press center: The Turkish occupation, as it tries to legitimize the attacks of the Turkish occupation. The spread of such allegations raises doubts. The KDP wants to target the Rojava revolution and its people and damage its diplomatic relations
🔴Important
High level Iranian delegation have met @masoud_barzani 2 days ago.
#KDP media outlets haven’t reported the visit.
Hassan Danaeifar, who lead the delegation informed Barzani that #Iran will not allow KRG to build gas pipeline to #Iraq or #Turkey.
High level Iranian delegation have met @masoud_barzani 2 days ago.
#KDP media outlets haven’t reported the visit.
Hassan Danaeifar, who lead the delegation informed Barzani that #Iran will not allow KRG to build gas pipeline to #Iraq or #Turkey.
Danaeifar also gives a promise to @masoud_barzani to cancel federal court decision on region's oil if #KDP withdraw from the tripartite Coalition with @Mu_AlSadr, @AlHaLboosii and @khameskhanjar .
The commander of liaison office (the Qarargah-i Ramazan) that coordinated military actions with the Kurdish parties abdulreza mesgarian also attended the meeting.
#niet_in_journaal #nieuwsuur #1V #Op1 #bbvpro #NPOradio1 #Azerbaijan #Armenia #Ganja aa.com.tr/en/world/armen…
#niet_in_journaal #nieuwsuur #1V #OP1 #bbvpro #NPORadio1 #Turkey #counterterrorism #arrest #MLKP aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turk…
Een perspectief op huidige ontwikkelingen dat nogal afwijkt van de mainstream en als BS zal worden afgedaan maar desondanks interessante aanknopingspunten biedt. #niet_in_journaal #nieuwsuur #1V #Op1 #bbvpro #NPORadio1 #Cyrus_Parsa #AI #China
1) Reports today of #KDP secret police preventing displaced #Yazidi families from returning to their homes in #Sinjar.
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#Iraq #Kurdistan #KRG
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#Iraq #Kurdistan #KRG
2) This is a sick game the KDP has played since Jan. 2016—a deliberate political strategy that prevents genocide survivors from recovering until KDP powers can unilaterally reassert control and regain hegemony in Sinjar.
3) There have been moments of temporary softening of this policy—during instances when Western pressure on the KDP to end this flagrant abuse of Yazidi human rights has occurred—but KRG allies are habitually quick to forget about the problem and the KDP always resumes the policy.
1) Important: The #KDP has rejected sensible recommendations from the International Crisis Group @CrisisGroup on returning stability to #Sinjar so that the #Yazidi people can return home, rebuilding, and have a future. This affair deserves comment.
#KRG #Kurdistan #Iraq
#KRG #Kurdistan #Iraq
2) The @CrisisGroup is one of the few analyst entities to produce reasonable suggestions that, in fact, reflect what the Yazidis have been demanding for the past 4 ½ years. They recently recommended that the #Yazidi people choose their own administrative leaders for #Sinjar.
3) Dindar Zebari (pictured in 1st tweet), whose lovely job it is to craft responses to the many reports from around the world that criticize KDP policy and HR record, responded, stating that Sinjar already has a mayor (qaymaqam)—Mahama Khalil—who has been elected by the people.
1) Today—on the 4th anniversary of the Kocho Massacre, when #IS slaughtered an entire town as part of the Yazidi Genocide—#Turkey bombed a #Yazidi convoy in #Sinjar that was returning from the Kocho Massacre memorial ceremony, killing Mam Zaki, an important Yazidi #PKK leader.
1) New updates on #Sinjar—this thread provides details following KDP pullout.
Photo: Haider Shesho greets #Yazidi Hashd commander Khal Ali.
Photo: Haider Shesho greets #Yazidi Hashd commander Khal Ali.
3) The past week’s events led to hysterical claims that Peshmerga were returning to Sinjar/airstrikes hit Sinjar/etc. All such claims false.
1) Today afternoon #Iraq, 10/21/2017, all #Yazidis in #Sinjar that are receiving a salary from #KRG were informed to leave Sinjar & go to =>
2)#Kurdistan or their salary will be cut off.
3) This move will cause a further humanitarian devastation on the already suffering #Yazidis who have hardly anything to begain with post =>
1) A MONUMENTAL DAY: The #KDP has FULLY WITHDRAWN from #Sinjar. I'm completely SPEECHLESS—(well, not completely): Bye-bye KDP!
#Yazidi #Iraq
#Yazidi #Iraq
2) After over 3 years of fighting for this outcome, the #Yazidi community has finally scored a major victory in reclaiming their homeland.
3) After #Peshmerga withdrew from Kirkuk yesterday (for which the PUK was hit w/ blame), the effect continues in KDP-controlled areas today.
