Genocide
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The 2014 Yazidi Genocide and its Reflection in New and International Media
Jaza Ahmed fars, Rebin Abdalrahman Fatah
Genocide is considered an international crime. In 2014, the Yazidis faced genocide at the hands of the terrorist organization (ISIS). In this tragedy, thousands of women, men, children, youth and the elderly were genocided. It is known that the massacre committed by ISIS against the Shiite people in Sinjar means the extermination and attempts to erase a religious community, because thousands of women were kidnapped, raped and treated as slaves in the market, and the fate of some of them is still unknown. This religion is also practiced in Kurdistan, Iraq, Syria, Armenia, Turkey, etc. Crimes included mass murder, kidnapping, trafficking in women and children, and forced conversion. As several international legal reports have revealed, the complete extermination or destruction of the essence of the Yazidis as an ethnic group, and the Yazidi community suffered great psychological and social damage, most of the Yazidi areas were destroyed by the attacks. Therefore, most Yezidis have not yet recovered from the psychological effects of the genocide. This study is an analytical study to present the role of new media in the recognition and dissemination of the genocide of the Yazidis worldwide. In this paper we will answer the following questions: What is genocide? What is new media? How did the Yazidis face genocide? What is the role of the new media in the issue of publicizing and recognizing the genocide of the Yazidis? To answer these questions in this research we have used several methods including: descriptive, analytical and historical methods, each of these methods according to the needs of our research. It is important to note that the importance of this study lies in the fact that during our research we found that until the writing of this study, there has been little research in this field that links the new media to the issue of recognizing the Yazidi genocide.
Volume 12 · Issue 6 · December 2025Genocide as a Source of Literary Inspiration
khalida Sadeeq Ahmed, yahman M. Abdulrahman, Nimatulla Hamed Nheli
In terms of content, literature encompasses a wide range of subjects and in doing so, it benefits from a multitudinous variety of phenomena to create its messages and leave imprints. Conforming to this fact, literature has historically aspired to portray the influential and tragic events that have shaped human history and existence. One of the significant events in the Kurdish history is the Anfal Campaigns which involves a series of systematic offensive operations practiced against the Kurdish people by the Iraqi government. The present study aims to explore the representation of the Anfal Genocide in Hashim Taha Akray’s poetry collection entitled After Anfal. Examining the ways in which Anfal-related themes have been approached, the study is divided into two sections. The first section presents the theoretical aspects of the study including the definition of Anfal, its conception, types and the different stages through which it has been practiced. The second section concerns the representation of the Anfal Campaigns in Akray’s poetry. Through Akray’s employment of these disastrous events, which he strongly condemns, it becomes clear that the campaigns have inflected painful and unforgettable effects on the Kurdish civilian population.
Volume 12 · Issue 2 · April 2025The role of Garmian villages in the liberation movement of South Kurdistan (1961-1991)
Parzhin Jaafar Haji Rostam, Shuan Mohammed Amin Taha
This research focuses on the role of Omerbal village in the liberation movement in South Kurdistan between 1961-1991. This village is surrounded by hills, valleys, plains, trees, gardens and gardens, due to its geographical location and nature, has been a good refuge for the establishment of bases and headquarters of the Peshmerga forces. Because of the national feelings of the villagers, many of them became Peshmergas and played a significant role in the liberation movement in Kurdistan. Since the beginning of the September Revolution until 1991, the village has been attacked several times by the Iraqi government, especially in 1963, a fierce attack by the National Guard (Al-Hurs). As a result, two civilians were killed. Thus, the Iraqi government army continued to attack the village in subsequent years, especially during the 1980s, several important battles and stories in this village The villagers have made a heroic defense against the oppression of the Iraqi government army. However, during the third Anfal campaign in Garmian, due to the decisions and policies of the Iraqi government towards the destruction and collapse of Kurdistan villages and the silence of the international community, This village as one of the villages of Garmian, a large part of the population was affected by the process, which numbered (263) people were disappeared and the village was flattened and life and prosperity ended until it was established 1991 Spring Uprising.