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Iraq
Nearly 300 Yazidi IDPs return to Shingal: Iraqi minister
2023-08-13
[Rudaw] Iraq’s migration and displacement minister announced on Friday that about 300 Yazidis, who had fled to Duhok province due to insecurity, returned to their hometown of Shingal. However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
a Kurdish official deemed the process a failure and accused Baghdad of refusing to cooperate in this regard.

The Iraqi Migration and Displacement Ministry cited minister Evan Faeq Gabro as saying that a new batch of Yazidis, consisting of 293 people, left the IDP camps in Duhok province on Friday and returned to their homes in the disputed district of Shingal.

The minister on Tuesday announced the return of 100 other Yazidis to Shingal, saying the process was conducted in coordination with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

The Yazidis in Shingal were subjected to countless heinous atrocities, including forced marriages, sexual violence, and massacres when ISIS captured the city in 2014, bringing destruction to many villages and towns populated by the minority group. The Yazidis were forced to flee to displacement camps across Iraq and the Kurdistan Region.

Political disputes over the city between the federal government and the KRG as well as the presence of several gangs have disrupted the reconstruction of the city. A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report in June slammed Iraqi authorities for failing to adequately compensate thousands of Yazidi families who bore the brunt of ISIS’ atrocities.

Srwa Rasul, head of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Joint Crisis Coordination Center (JCC), told Rudaw on Friday that the Iraqi government’s effort to return Yazidis to Shingal is a failure, claiming that only 214 families have returned to the town in the last two years.

However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
Pir Dayan Pir Jaafar, the head of Duhok’s migration office, which is linked to the KRG, told Rudaw on Tuesday that a total of around 4,000 Yazidis had returned to Shingal since the beginning of this year.

Rasul accused the Iraqi Migration and Displacement Ministry of "failing to cooperate [with the KRG] regarding the dossier of returning IDPs to Shingal. The Iraqi government has yet to abide by the Shingal Agreement."

Baghdad and Erbil signed an agreement in 2020 to normalize the situation in Shingal but the deal has yet to be implemented. The United States has repeatedly called on the Iraqi and Kurdish government to "immediately break the political deadlock" in the city.

There is a myriad of armed forces in Shingal with various allegiances, including the Kurdistan Region Peshmerga, pro-Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi in Arabic), and groups affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). They gained footholds in Shingal after ousting ISIS.
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