Ezidikhan Rises from Genocide: 66 Indigenous Nations Establish Middle East/North Africa Confederation
Patrick Harrigan, Aline Castañeda Cadena
Volume 22, Number 1 (2022) 22 (1): 1-22
Keywords Mesopotamia, genocide, Kurdish Regional Government, Iraq, Confederation, Tribunal
Abstract
For more than 6000 years, Yezidi have celebrated their place in the fertile region between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers in Mesopotamia. Now they are situated in the states of Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Armenia, and Iran. Since the formation of the Ottoman Empire (1300-1922), which was originally established in Anatolia—the location of contemporary Turkey, the Yezidi have suffered innumerable crises threatening their lives and property including numerous genocides. The Yezidi government of Ezidikhan leads the effort to form the first multi-region indigenous nations’ Confederation forming the Confederation of Indigenous Nations of the Middle East and North Africa (CINMENA). Having suffered massive genocidal attacks, the Yezidi Justice Minister Nallein Sowilo is described as having confronted the attacks on her people by the Islamic State in 2014, establishing the Confederation and initiating the effort to establish the Nations’ International Criminal Tribunal.
Patrick Harrigan
Aline Castañeda Cadena
Published June 1, 2022
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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