The Assyrian village of Mizeh appealing to humanity’s conscience

The Assyrian village of Mizeh appealing to humanity’s conscience
ANA- Translation and Media desk

Nohadra – Samy Zaia – Independent reporter

August 17th, 2006

In a very dangerous precedent, the Kurdish inhabitants in the villages of Sawar and Spendar forbade the Assyrian inhabitants of the Mizeh village (in the Lower Barwari area) from returning to their homes and threatened to kill them.
One of the Mizeh inhabitants who refused to mention his name said:” Some 25 families wanted to go back to their village when their circumstances allowed them to, as they had submitted applications to the re-building committee headed by Mr. Sarkis Aghajan. The committee gave its approval for the re-building of 25 homes, and before beginning, the project was given to a Kurdish contractor because the inhabitants wanted to avoid any problems on the part of the Sawar and Spendar villagers. As the plans began, a group of men threatened to kill the workers and the contractor if they didn’t leave the site, so they left and notified Mr. Farnsu Jadidi who is the responsible for the construction committee in Dohuk (Nohadra) who told them “leave the issue we don’t want problems”.
The citizen of Mizeh added:” What’s our fault? We want to return to our village, it’s the authorities responsibility to help us with that, why do they neglect us? Aren’t we citizens as well? Didn’t we sacrifice like every one else in order to have our rights on our lands or we’re asked to sacrifice only???
Another inhabitant of Mizeh stated that the trespassing Kurdish villagers of Sawar and Spendar gave the inhabitants of Mizeh two choices, “either we buy our own village and lands from the Kurds for three billion Iraqi dinars telling us that the village is no longer ours or we sell our village and lands to the Kurds for two billion Iraqi dinars. Where is the rationality to buy our own lands and village for three billions or sell them to the Kurds for two billions? Is there more oppression than this? We are calling upon humanity’s conscience to give us back what’s rightfully ours on the lands which we were born on, and we call upon the Kurdish authorities controlling the North of Iraq to intervene, it’s enough with them only watching all that afflicts us as if we are not citizens”.

Source: Nirgalgate.com

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