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You are here: Home / Library / Books / ‎16. The Ordeal of Syrian Exiles in Iraq‎

‎16. The Ordeal of Syrian Exiles in Iraq‎

14-January-2008 By shrc_admin

Syrian exiles residing in Iraq since the early 1980s were ‎exposed, during the period covered by the report, to major ‎dangers that threatened their life and existence. They were ‎targets for the Iraqi police, the armed militia close to them and ‎the American forces. About 38 of them were killed after their ‎being taken from their houses, the locations of their work or ‎from the street. About 23 persons were arrested and forces in ‎the uniforms of police attacked some of their houses in Hayfa ‎Street and set on fire 15 houses on 16 January 2007. What ‎intensified the danger of exposing the exiled Syrians to ‎detention and murder was the refusal of the Iraqi Ministry of  ‎Foreign Affairs to renew their residences or tearing them up ‎and tearing up the documents some of them had gained from ‎the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR),  to acquire ‎the status of refugees.‎


Owing to these risks the families of the exiled tried to move to ‎other countries, but the neighbouring countries refused even ‎their transit across them. The UN High Commission for ‎Refugees (UNHCR)was unable to offer any help despite ‎contacting it and sending direct and indirect calls and appeals ‎to it. Meanwhile, the intelligence and security apparatuses ‎continued waiting for whoever of them returned and would ‎arrest him upon his arrival at the Iraqi borders. Hundreds of the ‎Syrian exiled families could do nothing but leave Iraq as soon ‎as possible at any cost and by any means that would enable ‎them to survive a sure massacre that had been contrived ‎against them by the Iraqi police and the armed militia allied ‎with them, leaving behind all their belongings and a quarter-of-‎a-century-long memories.


Nevertheless, another considerable ‎number of families were not fortunate enough to depart, ‎especially those who are waiting for the release of their ‎relatives from prisons, those who are looking for their missing ‎ones, those who have marriage and in-law relationships there, ‎or those who could not find a means to depart. Those who ‎have departed are suffering in their new residences from ‎unemployment, destitute and loss of neighbours and ‎companions.‎


In this respect the Syrian Human Rights Committee has ‎recorded the following events: The corpse of the youth Salih ‎al-Madani (25 years) was found in one of the streets of ‎Baghdad on 11 September 2006. The police had arrested him ‎along with his companions in the street on 15 July 2006. The ‎twins Zaid and Zaidoon Tirkawi (17) were assassinated by the ‎armed militia in early October 2006. Detention was the lot of ‎Ahmad Tirmanini (55), Khidir Hasan al-Juburi, Abdullah ‎Karkab al-Marsumi, Ibrahim Judai’ al-Marsumi, Khalaf al-‘Ilaiwi, ‎Khidir Hamad al-Hasan and Ali Nasir  on 21 December  2006 ‎and their corpses were found mutilated two days after their ‎arrest. The youth Abdul-Fattah Juha (20), a resident in Mosul ‎was abducted on 14 January 2007 and his corpse was found a ‎few hours after his abduction.‎


Muhammad Bakkur, Muhammad Badawi, Ibrahim Jarkas and ‎Uthman Bisbasa were arrested on 9 January 2007. While ‎Muhammad Bakkur, the Head of the Syrian Committee for ‎Democratic Action was released two days later, but his ‎comrades have not been released yet.‎


The Iraqi police arrested Rakan Taher Qintar (45) , Mahmud ‎Abdul-Majeed al-Muhammad (43) and Ali Abdul-Kareem al-‎Modlej (28)  in the second half of 2006, while the American ‎forces arrested Abdul-Rahman  Muhammad Qal’achi (57) and ‎his three sons, ‘Adnan   Abdul-Rahman  Qal’achi (23), Ahmad ‎Abdul-Rahman  Qal’achi (30) and Razwan Abdul-Rahman  ‎Qal’achi (23), who was arrested in May 2007. The American ‎forces arrested ‘Umar ‘Akkash (20) on 13 January 2007, ‎Ahmad Muhammad Snobar (55) on 23 February 2007, Usama ‎Muhammad ‘Mash (26) on 20 May 2007, Ibrahim Muhammad ‎Abdul-Ghani  Najjar (18) on 8 August 2007, and Abul-Rahman ‎Ahmad Muhammad (29) on 16 August 2007. The Iraq police ‎arrested Muhammad Ibrahim ‘Asi (42) on 25 March 2007, ‎Abdul-Ghani Muhammad Najjar (20) in April 2007, Mus’ab ‎Fa’our (26) on 3 July 2007, Ahmad ‘Awwad al-Hasan (34) on ‎‎25 April 2006, Ghasaan Muhammad Abdul-Ghani  Najjar (21) ‎on 15 July 2007 and Mustafa Mahmud Shamma (45) on 25 ‎August 2007. ‎

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