More than one thousand Kurdish Shabaks killed in Mosul in last 12 months

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07.06.2014 – Nuwar Jabali – BasNews, Mosul – On Friday two truck bombs were detonated in the village of Bartala in Iraq’s Mosul Province, killing five Shabak Kurds and injuring 40.

Bartala police department told BasNews that besides the loss of human lives, the Shabak-majority town has suffered great financial damages. A local Shabak Kurd spoke to BasNews on condition of anonymity and explained that since 2013 approximately 1,195 Shabaks have been killed as a result of the violence and terrorist attacks in the province.

“So far security forces have not been able to stop the threats on Shabaks and Yezidis in Mosul,” said the source. “In the areas controlled by the Kurdish Peshmerga (military) and security (Asayish) the threats are less,” added the source. According to UN statistics there are about 450,000 Kurdish Shabaks in Mosul in Nineveh Province. The Shabak people are an ethno-religious group who live mainly in the villages of Ali Rash, Khazna, Yangidja, and Tallara in Sinjar district in the province of Nineveh in northern Iraq. They speak Shabaki, a Northwestern Iranian language.