Mandali District
district in Diyala, Iraq
Mandali (Arabic: مندلي , Kurdish: مەندەلی, romanized: Mendelî , Turkish: Mandali) is one of the disputed areas between Baghdad and Erbil and belongs to Diyala Governorate administratively. It is 93 km away from the city of Baqubah, the center of Diyala Governorate. It is inhabited by a mixture of Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen.
Mandali borders Khanaqin district from the north, and lies on the border strip with Iran from the east, and Qazaniyah district, the center of Baladruz district, from the west.
In 1987 Mandali was a district, and Baladruz and Qazaniya sub-districts belonged to mandali district, then Baladruz was transformed into a district and Mandali became a Subdistrict of it till recently when it gained district status.
History
Mandali district was inhabited by a majority of the Feyli Kurds, who were subjected to a large-scale campaign of displacement, were deprived from their Iraqi citizenship and properties by the Baathist regime in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The Feyli Kurds were also subjected to deportation, displacement, arrest, and murder during the rule of former President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr in 1970 and 1975, and, Saddam Hussein's regime in 1980.
Historians believe that the displacement was due to their sectarian and ethnic affiliations, as well as their struggle for autonomy and independence.
In 2010, the Supreme Criminal Court issued its verdict regarding the crimes of displacement, disappearance, and seizure of the rights of the Feyli Kurds, deeming them to be acts of genocide.
On December 8 of the same year, the Iraqi government issued a decision committing to removing the negative effects of targeting the Feyli Kurds, followed by a decision from the Parliament on August 1, 2010, which declared the forced displacement and disappearance of the Feyli Kurds as a crime of genocide.
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