killed, 600 Turkmen women and 200 children were abducted. The monitoring teams
of the Commission followed the issues of compensating the Turkmen for their lands
and properties confiscated during the time of the former regime and noted the
existence of many compensation cases that have not yet been resolved either by the
property claims commission or the competent courts, especially in Kirkuk province
As for the violations committed against the Turkmen component in Tuz Khurmato
district, the Commission notes that the Turkmen in this district were subjected to
systematic targeting for 15 years by the terrorists and the associated groups without
the presence of a local or central force to protect them. Where (1670) were disabled
due to the targeting of car bombs, improvised explosive devices, assassinations and
kidnappings. At least 600 houses and 320 shops were damaged, as well as the
emigration of skilled workers and businessmen, which negatively affected the
economic, service and other fields. Turkmen in the province of Kirkuk was also
subjected to serious violations by terrorist gangs. The village of Basheer was targeted
at the beginning of June 2014, forcibly displaced its inhabitants, 11 Turkmen girls and
women were kidnapped, raped, killed , then burned their bodies and hanging on
electricity poles, in addition to the destruction of 60% of the village's buildings. As of
the date of the report, the Commission has not noticed any real efforts to clear the
village of mines. Taza was also hit by chemical weapons by terrorist gangs in June 2016
and (4000) Civilians were affected in varying degrees and large numbers of them still
suffer from chronic skin and respiratory diseases. Despite the magnitude of those
violations and crimes monitored by the Commission, but the measures taken to bring
the perpetrators to justice were not at the required and expected level.
The Commission has monitored the conditions of Sabean Mandaean and pointed out
that the only obstacle suffered by the members of this community is not to allocate a
piece of land to build a temple for the Mandaeans in Baghdad province and Kirkuk.
The Commission has monitored the reality of minorities' rights (Shabak component)
since Daesh control of Mosul city on 9/6/2014 and its most heinous crimes committed
against civilians in Mosul , and then these gangs attack the areas of Nineveh Plain and
the surrounding villages that are inhabited by Shabak component.
The gangs killed 124 citizen and kidnapped 126 others, including 27 women. As a result
of these attacks on the areas of the Nineveh Plain, more than (200,000) shabaki
citizens were displaced to the provinces of Kurdistan region and then the number of
them moved to other provinces, especially the provinces (Baghdad, Najaf and
Karbala), where the largest number of displaced families in the camps (Prophet Shit
and Prophet Younis ) In Baghdad city.
The Commission noted that displaced families have faced a difficulty in returning to
their areas in the Nineveh Plain or surrounding villages, including the absence of
special offices for the Ministry of Displacement and Migration for the purpose of
registering their return and granting them a return grant of 1.5 million Iraqi dinars,
therefore some of families are forced not to register their return despite their urgent
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