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ONLY A UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING FORCE CAN SAVE THE REMNANT SURVIVING EZIDI/YAZIDI PEOPLE FROM ANNIHILATION

  • Writer: Niklas Edghill
    Niklas Edghill
  • Jun 17
  • 13 min read

What follows is a detailed account of facts about the most ancient Sumerian Civilization descendant Indigenous People left in the levant - and how they have been - and are STILL being systematically annihilated by neighboring countries, ethnic groups, and religious extremists - even after 74 documented genocides inflicted upon them., while the so-called 'civilised world' - does absolutely NOTHING to help them.

FROM THE REAL LEADER OF THE YAZIDI PEOPLE (not the puppet appointed by CIA payrolee Barzani in Kurdistan)

As an independent Ezidi, we do not want anyone to speak in the name of Ezidis


and impose their identity on our Ezidi people and exploit our sufferings, rob us of 


our rights, and occupy our geography.


Ezidi are an ethnoreligious group, we are indigenous people of Mesopotamia: and


our cultures are still similar to the ancient Iraqis:


We have all the ingredients of a people with an International Legal Right to our own sovereign political nationality:


• The Ezidi attire


• Festivals and occasions


• Lalish temple and the ancient pre-Judaism, pre-Christianity, and pre-Islam cosmological symbols in it


• The ancient Ezidi solar calendar


• Millennia old Ezidi sayings and proverbs


• 6,000 years of oral history folklore - including  love stories, ancient historical tales, and heroic epics songs


• The Ezidi new year on the first Wednesday of April and its connection to the formation of the earth and the beginning of life on earth, like Sumerian-


Babylon and Assyria


• Music, chants, and songs


The documented existence in historical records of multiple countries in which Ezidi fathers and grandfathers helped to save their


Assyrian, Armenian, Arab, French, British, and Eastern European fellow human beings from extermination.




As it is known to posterity, 12 years ago, specifically on the 3rd of August 2014, the MOSSAD and CIA created


terrorist organization of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant "ISIS" attacked the


Sinjar district and its Iraqi Ezidi-majority districts, compounds, and villages, after the deliberate CIA & MOSSAD ordered (to Barzani the leader of Kurdistan) withdrawal for the Kurdish security forces from Sinjar...who has assured the Ezidis that 'they would remain to protect them until their last drop of blood'.


The authentic Ezidi component “the Ezidi people” whose religious, cultural,


civilizational, and historical roots extend back thousands of years from the


civilizations of Mesopotamia, a nation with a national, linguistic, cultural,


historical, and religious identity, this terrorist organization committed against us a


“genocide” campaign where it killed men, massacred children and raped women


and sold girls in slave markets under the eyes of everyone, noting that the number


of kidnapped women, men and children reached more than 6,500 people, the


number of orphans reached more than 3,000 children, and 68 temples and religious


shrines were destroyed and left more than 80 mass graves, most of which have not


been documented yet.



12 years have passed since this genocide, and its repercussions continue to this


day, as thousands of abductees are of unknown fate, in addition to the fact that the


city of Sinjar and all our communities and villages are still completely destroyed


and lack the most basic types of civil services such as water, streets, hospitals, and


schools, in addition to that. Our areas are still full of rubble and ISIS remnants, and


About 300,000 Ezidis live in displacement camps in northern Iraq, Syria, and Turkey in very harsh conditions. 

Thousands of families have migrated to Europe, America, Canada, and Australia.



This is not the first time that the Ezidi people were subjected to extermination


and massacres, as the genocide campaigns against the Ezidi people continued from the first recorded genocide at


the fall of the Babylonian Empire in (539 BC. M) to the 74th recorded genocide in the year 2014 AD, and the


Ezidi people became displaced and persecuted under these negative conditions, and


the pace of ethnic cleansing campaigns increased on The Ezidis year after year, causing our people to suffer from the inter-generationaly traumatic effects


and bloody events that caused great harm to the Ezidi cultural heritage, as well as


their direct effects on the uprooting of the Ezidi people from their lands and the


dispersal of its elements to remote areas in a global diaspora.


The aim of these bloody campaigns was clear. It was to subjugate the Ezidis


under its cruel and destructive policies, and through which it followed brutal


methods, represented by killing, mutilating corpses in front of people,


displacement, oppression, and abuse without mercy and pity, with treachery,


committing acts of murder, looting, sexual assault, the human trafficking of children and women,


burning homes and entire villages and cutting down trees. 

Burning crops and orchards after obtaining sufficient spoils and property, destroying the infrastructure


of sacred religious houses and cultural and heritage monuments, and destroying


intellectual monuments and the Mesopotamian culture belonging to the Ezidi people.


Rulers, sultans, princes, governors and leaders used religion as a weapon against the


Ezidis and issued fatwas against them before the decree was issued - and their killing became public “and selling them in the extermination of the


markets" became 'legal'.



One of the most important tacit and overt goals that was behind the launching of


extermination against the Ezidi people by some parties were as follows:


1- Acquisition of Ezidi material possessions and property.


2 - The eradication of the Sumerian-Babylonian historical and civilizational


extension of the Ezidi people.


3 -  The destruction of the Ezidi language.


5 - Elimination of the cultural, historical, and heritage monuments of the Ezidi


people.


6 - Acquisition of the entire Ezidi regions and geography.


7 - Exploitation of the human potential of the Ezidis who are at the mercy of the


invaders for the slave profession and their recruitment into the ranks of the


invading armies.


8 - Stealing children and abducting women for the purposes of human and sex trafficking.


9 - Elimination of the Ezidi people with the aim of not developing their human,


geographical, intellectual, and administrative capabilities.


10 - spreading Islam via Kurds, by supporting Kurds to dispossess and usurp Ezidis because of


the Kurds Islamic background.



During these campaigns and exterminations, the Ezidis lost 95% of their lands,


which extended from Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, where the Ezidis had seven


sanjaks (territories) in each of the mentioned countries, including the following:


• Anzel Snjak: Shekhan, Baadrah, Erbil, Lalish, Akri, Mercosur, Koy Sanjak


• Hakkari Sanjak (Zuzana): Dohuk, Wan, Shernakh, Slobia, Zakho, Amidi,


Hakkari


• Masqoof Sanjak (Serhad): Mosh, Bitlis, Akri, Ardi Shin, Kars, Erzurum,


Ardhan


• Sanjak Khalta territory (called Walate Khalta): Diyarbakir, Merdin, Urfa,


Adimore, Maltaya, Ela Zeki, Erzangani, Batman


• Sanjak Halab (Allepo territory): Aleppo, Afrin, Gaziantep, Hamis and Hima


• Sanjak Shingal (Sinjar Territory): Shingal, Hasaka, Qamishlo, Derika Hamko,


Rmelan


• Sanjak Taureez (Tabriz Territory): Urmia, Mahabad, Khoy, Tabriz

Pic 1 here



And as shown in the picture;



EzdiKhan: (land or home of the Ezidi) once meant "the country" in which the


Ezidis lived. These were the territories of the settlement of the Ezidis, which are


now part of modern Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran, and consists of two syllables


words:


Ezidi: Ezidi People


Khan: land, house or home



1- Ezidi Seven Sanjak (Territory) Geography



This term was mentioned as a toponym of Ezidi settlements by Turks, Arabs,


Kurds, and even European travelers, despite previous attempts to reject any


mention of it by the Kurds.



• The most famous example was the Ezidi autonomous Region of Radwan,


which was located south of Siirt turkey today. Representatives of 


the powerful Ezidi Khalti tribe lived there, who had their own armed forces,


with which they successfully defended their lands for a long time.


• The European traveler Henry A. Homs in 1842 noted these territories under


the term "Ezidkhan».


• The Prussian Field Marshal Helmut von Moltke (1800 – 1891). in his works,


the river flowing here was called "Ezidkhan".


In the future, this term prevailed in the geographical works of German and


European cartographers.


• The British traveler Henry Layard in his notes in Ezidi region in northern


Iraq, confirmed that northern Iraq was ruled by the Ezidi leader Hussein Bek


Al-Dasni in 1534 AD.


• Many educated intellectuals Kurdish confirmed that the Kurdish lands in


northern Iraq today, were in the name of Ezdikhan and said that the Mazuri


and Doski tribes attacked Ezidis, which led to them displacement from their


areas.



The term was actively used in the Middle Ages.


• Karl Ritter wrote in 1846 that the Turks call the territory near the Radwan


River, Ezidkhan the Ezidi Khalti tribe lived there.

Pic 2 here



• The Kurdish historian Mela Mahmoud Bayezidi also described "the


Ezidkhan tribes around Mosul and Shangal."


• From European travelers and scientists, maps with the designation of places


of known historical residence of Ezidis with the term "Ezidkhan" have also reached


us.


• The autonomy of Ezdikhan has also been preserved to this day — the


territory of the Ezidis, located in northern Iraq on a total area of 17 thousand


square kilometers - the districts of Ain Sifni, Sinjar, and Sheikhan, Bashiqa,


Bahzane in the governorate of Mosul.


• In Sheikhan there is also the main shrine of the Ezidis.


• the Ezidis had their own alphabet consisting of 33 letters which finally added to


the Unicode standard.



• The name Ezdikhan is also mentioned in religious texts: as in the Sharfain text:


that said;


o Advise Ezdikhan


o Let them strengthen their faith


• And also, in religious scriptural testimonies


o In the land, land of Ezdikhan


o Call them to visit Lalish for worship and prostration



• As also in the epic song of Mirza al-Qunsi, nicknamed Ezidi Mirza during the


reign of Rashid Pasha who fight Turkey: said


o From that day until now, the history of the Ezidi Mirza is spread among


the Ezdikhan.



• Mentioned the name of Ezdikhan in a song about the Battle of Dallah, which is


located in the district of Bachiriya, Batman province-Turkey today where it


said:


o Adla said: Come on man, don't do it, don't go to the battle of Erzana


Sheikh, Radwan Aba Tammo, I swear to you, fighting against Ezdikhan


is not easy.



Of course, it is impossible to predict whether Ezidi autonomy will be created or


not. But it’s safe to say that Ezdikhan and its characters should be in the hearts of


each Ezidi. And this is the only way to preserve Ezidism and Ezidis.


And today, after the bitterness of thousands of years of genocide and injustice, and


after all those tragedies, wounds and pains in the last Ezidi genocide, and instead


of searching for the abducted Ezidi women, and the kidnapped people, and


returning them to their families, compensating our people for the material and


moral losses they suffered, reconstructing our destroyed areas and providing


services in them, and rebuilding our destroyed areas, and return the displaced to


overcome the consequences of the genocide.


The government of Baghdad and Erbil instead concluded the Sinjar Agreement, which was


stillborn without referring to the people of Sinjar to investigate facts and develop


satisfactory solutions that create security and stability.



Many internal and external parties are pushing the situation in Sinjar towards a


crisis in the implementation of their agendas and at the expense of the people of


Sinjar, and worst of all, turning Sinjar into a battlefield between armed militias that


have recruited thousands of young Ezidis in their ranks and who have accepted the abnormal


situation in order to live and provide for them and their families.



We, as the true independent leadership voices of the oppressed and persecuted Ezidis, appeal to all


countries, all political leaders with moral fortitude still left within them, and who genuinely support democracy, freedom, and human rights,


 to make every humanitarian effort by quickly intervening to save the rest of the Ezidis and to establish an autonomous


region for the Ezidis WITHIN the political borders of the nation-state of Iraq - just as the Kurds legally enjoy in Kurdistan, according to the United Nations Convention for the Protection of Minorities in the post-war phase and under the supervision of the


United Nations to protect them from any threat to their existence:




1 - Establishing an autonomous region - as the Kurds already legally enjoy in Kurdistan - for the Ezidis under the name of


Ezdikhan in the remaining Ezidi areas and to be under international protection - but as an Autonomous Region within Iraq; as show in the picture below:

PIC 3 here


2 - Forming an international committee to seriously investigate and search for the Ezidi


abductees, whose fate has so far been unknown, and work to rescue them and


return them to their families and end this crime against humanity.


3 - Opening the file of the genocide to which the Ezidis were subjected on 3-8-2014


in the international courts and in the Hague Court to punish the perpetrators of this


genocide.


4 - Expulsion of all armed groups affiliated with ISIS, Syria, Turkey and Kurdistan governments from all Ezidis regions in Iraq.


5 - Opening schools and universities in Ezidikhan at an international


level and standard with curriculums approved by the Ezidikhan Autonomous Government only.

6 - Establishing UN managed humanitarian reconstruction projects in the Ezidi regions to provide job opportunities for Ezidis in reconstructing the civilian infrastructure in cities, villages, and Ezidi communities that were destroyed by ISIS and other illegal occupational forces. .


7 - Handing over the security responsibility inside the Ezidi areas to the Ezidikhan Autonomous Government itself - as is legally implemented in Kurdistan by the Kurdistan Autonomous Government in their case.


8 - That there ONLY be genuine representation of the Ezidis in the United Nations organizations ahd Forums - officially sanctioned by the true independent Ezidi leadership of the Autonomous Region of Ezidikhan, not political appointee puppets of any external entity of government outside of Ezidikhan,


9 - Canceling the agreement between Baghdad and Erbil on Sinjar and issuing a


decision confirming the administrative link of Sinjar with the central government


in Baghdad.


10 - Officially recognizing the separate independent identity of the Ezidi people in the Constitution of Iraq as a Pre-Islamic Protected Indigenous Minority group, and not linking them to any other identity, as the Ezidis are an independent Mesopotamian component of the human fabric of Iraqi society.


11 - Reparations in the form of financial compensation for Ezidi material losses caused by the perpetrators of the 2014 genocide.



12 - Equity for the Ezidi component in ALL official Iraqi government representation.


13 - Providing and creating the appropriate conditions for the return of the


displaced Ezidis from the camps of the northern Iraq region to their areas.


14 - Restoration of the Ezidi land areas - including all the Ezidi oil fields - stolen by the Kurds from


2003 until now, as well as recovering the lands of the Ezidis that were seized as a


result of the demographic change by Kurdish political parties.


15 - No construction of mosques in the Ezidi religious areas, especially in the Ezidi Sacred Site at Wadi Lalish.


16 - Establishment of an international fund supervised by the United Nations to


compensate the Ezidi victims of the genocide.



17 - The Legal recognition in the Iraqi Constitution of the right of Ezidis to have and bestow traditional Ezidi names on all legal documents, and cancel the


'Ezidi-Kurd' term which was invented by Kurdish leaders for ideological and


chauvinistic Ezidi identity erasure political purposes



We also appeal to the human rights-loving countries to protect the Ezidis


from the extremist Kurdish groups who seek to melt the Ezidis into the Kurdish


identity and usurp/erase the geography and history of the Ezidis:



There are many following points I would like to remind you of that the


Kurdish parties practice against the Ezidis to steal their history and


geography



• Kurds appointed people belonging to their political parties in important Ezidi positions,


such as the Lalish temple to receive the funds, travelers, researchers, and


delegations to provide them with false information about the Ezidis and to make


the Ezidis appear to be Kurds, and if the Ezidis refused, they would either be imprisoned or


assassinated at Kurdish checkpoints.



• The Kurds established cultural centers and homes in the name of the Ezidis all over the


world, and they spent millions of dollars on it, so as to author books and articles


and change Ezidi history to Kurds history.


• They participate in meetings and seminars as if


representing the Ezidis and claim that the Ezidis are Kurds.



• They used spies to follow up on Ezidi youth and their activities on social media


to prevent the dissemination of any true independent Ezidi ideology hostile to their ethnic cleansing policy.



• Any Ezidi who considers himself as an Ezidi in identity, has no opportunity to


work with organizations and little opportunity to obtain any government position.



• Kurds consider the Ezidis to be infidels, they do not eat and/or buy what Ezidi


cook and sell.



• Since 2003 until now, Kurds have robbed and stolen all the rights of the Ezidis, and


built their cities with the sweat of the brow of the Ezidis.



• During the period of their rule in the Ezidi regions, they changed Ezidi


demographics and appointed from the administration of the regions 70% Muslims


and the remaining percentage of people who were raised in their nationalist


ideology.



• In Syria, the Kurdish PKK guerrilla Army seized all the lands of the Ezidis and imposed the ideology of


Zoroastrianism on the Ezidis with the placement of symbols and a statue of


Zoroastrianism on the Ezidi temple



• The Kurds annihilated the Ezidis in Iran.



• In Turkey every day they attack the rest of the Ezidis there, exhume their graves,


and expel them from their lands.



• There is no place left for the Ezidis from the Seven Sanjaks, except for occupied


Lalish and Sinjar, and there are PKK attempts to take Sinjar from the Ezidis, and


their first steps are they excavated on the sacred Sinjar Mountain and desecrated


the ancient pre-Islamic Ezidis’ shrines there.




• The Kurds don’t allow Ezidis to open schools to studying about their identity, history,


heritage, language, philosophy, cultures... etc



• Also, the Kurds don’t allow Ezidi to open independent Ezidi media channels for


themselves.



• During the period of their authority in the Ezidi areas from 2003 until their


escape, they did not build anything in Sinjar, and they did not allow the opening of


any university or technological departments or studying languages in Sinjar so that


the Ezidi people would remain slaves to them.



• The Kurds prevented confirm of the Ezidi identity in the permanent Iraqi


constitution despite the numerous attempts by the Ezidi quota in Parliament,


to consider the Ezidis as Kurds and steal their rights that come from Iraq,


and the Ezidis’ rights that the Kurdish parties stole from the Iraqi


government, they built Kurdistan with Ezidi hands from that money by


working them.


• When the Ezidis hold a meeting anywhere in the world or meet the


concerned authorities demanding the rights of the Ezidis,


the Kurdish parties will send a delegation or a group to the same place to disrupt or destroy what the Ezidis have accomplished.



• In the elections, they were looking for the worst people among the Ezidis to


nominate them in the elections, and they informed the chiefs of each


Ezidi clans to vote for their candidates. and they were appointing people on


their nationalist ideology to be the directors of the polling station to monitor


and work for them



• Like it or not, they appointed people in the Ezidi spiritual council and they


appointed Hazem as our emir Ashti Koger. Because Hazem belongs to the Kurdish


Democratic Party and they spy on any independent spiritual council movements.



• They are demonstrating in the name of the Ezidis in Europe without any


Ezidis attending the demonstration.



• They create websites and pages in the name of the Ezidis and add the name


of the Kurds before mentioning the name of the Ezidis... to become the Ezidi


Kurds to steal Ezidi geography



• They write books, articles, and stories in all languages and considered the


Ezidis Kurds and they minimize mentioning the name of the Kurds in their


extermination against the Ezidis


• Any Ezidi person who met their channels in an interview, they ask them,


“Are you a Kurd or an Ezidi, he/she should consider himself/herself Kurd or


they would be assassinated or captured”



• They don’t accept any Ezidi student in Kurdish universities unless he/she


writes in the nationalist field that he/she is Kurdish/Kurdish in nationalism.


• After their control in our areas, they coordinated with the Baghdad


government to prevent anything related to the Ezidi identity from being promoted or protected.

Without a United Nations peacekeeping force to protect us in our LAST remnant lands and traditional ancient territory in Iraq, and guarantee our right to exist, we shall disappear from the face of the Earth as a distinct people by the end of the 21st century. Where is the care, concern, and compassion for justice, peace, and equity - that the United Nations Charter enshrined in 1945 ''for ALL of humanity"? 



 
 
 

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