need due to the destruction of the houses by terrorist gangs, as well as lack of
rehabilitation of the simplest services needed by the citizen to return (electricity,
water, schools and hospitals.)
The Commission monitored the exposure of minorities of Al-Kakaiya component to
numerous and systematic violations based on ethnicity, where the security situation
posed a direct threat in the areas inhabited by Al- Kakaiya in the province of Kirkuk,
and hundreds of families subjected to displacement because of the threats of armed
groups and terrorism.
The Commission noted the existence of an organized and systematic operation by
terrorist groups to remove Kakaiya sacred sites by detonating, controlling or changing
its identity. Daesh occupied villages in Nineveh plain and Daqouq area in the
governorate in 2014, resulting in the displacement of approximately 20 thousand
citizens of Alkakaiya community in Iraq, and the number of people remaining in the
province of Kirkuk is estimated at (75) thousand people, but the number in all of Iraq
is estimated at (200) thousand people, and two villages inhabited by Al-Kakaiya (Albu
Mohammed – Shuker Jeran) were displaced into Kirkuk province where their numbers
(52) family.
After the liberation of Hawija district from Daesh terrorist gangs in 2017, the villages
near Daqouq district, which is inhabited by the majority of Al-Kakaiya component,
were displaced by Daesh where the number of the displaced families from the nearby
villages to the district especially the villages of (Arabkwi, Zanqr) , reached 53 family.
The statics indicated the killing of 197 people, were kidnapped during 2003-2014, and
38 were killed during the period of occupation of terrorist gangs.
During 2018, two members of Al-Kakaiya component were kidnapped from the village
of Topazawa and (3) people were injured, as well as kidnapping a woman and killing
(2) women from one family. On 21/3/2018, terrorist gangs blew up Zibar shrine, a
religious symbol whose shrine is considered an archaeological and religious
destination, it is located in the village of Zanqr, west of Daqouq district.
Recommendations:
1. Urging the federal government to conduct disaggregated statistical data on
minorities according to ethnic and religious composition, age and gender
that indicating the extent on which the members of minorities enjoy their
economic, social and cultural rights.
2. Urging the Federal Government and the Kurdistan Regional Government
to take all necessary measures to remove all obstacles that prevent the
enjoyment of human rights by members of different ethnic and religious
groups, including
Yazidi minorities in Sinjar district, and striving to rehabilitate their areas
and returning them.
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