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Village in Kurdistan Region, Iraq From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Badarash[nb 1] (Syriac: ܒܕܪܫ)[5] is a village in Dohuk Governorate in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is located in the Sapna valley in the district of Amadiya.
In the village, there is a Chaldean Catholic church of Mar Gewargis.[2][3]
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After the Assyrian genocide in the First World War, Badarash was settled by Assyrian refugees of the Baz clan from modern-day Turkey in the 1920s, all of whom belonged either to the Church of the East or the Chaldean Catholic Church.[3] The church of Mar Gewargis was constructed in 1925, and by 1938, 152 people inhabited the village, with 27 families.[3] Badarash was destroyed and its population expelled by the Iraqi government at the onset of the First Iraqi–Kurdish War in 1961, prior to which the village had 30 houses.[5] Villagers later returned, but Badarash was destroyed again during the Al-Anfal campaign in 1987.[6]
The village was rebuilt again, and the population of the village reached 40 families by 2004.[7] Violence against Assyrians in urban centres of Iraq led 102 displaced Assyrians, with 27 families, to seek refuge in Badarash by early 2009.[8] By 2012 the Supreme Committee of Christian Affairs had constructed 48 houses and a community hall.[5] Humanitarian aid was delivered to Badarash by the Assyrian Aid Society in May 2015.[9] The village's graveyard was renovated by the French non-governmental organisation SOS Chrétiens d'Orient in 2018.[10]
In May 2022, a group of Kurdish men from the Kurdistan Democratic Party came back to the village and began to place fences, and claimed the land belonged to them.[11] The Assyrians resisted them and attempted to obstruct them from raising the wall, claiming that it was their land. This incident transpired in a confrontation between the two groups, where the police arrested two Assyrians who were filming the incident and the Kurdish group involved in the altercation. Although the incident was a minor one, it created an emotional reaction among Assyrians worldwide on social media.[12] The CSW condemned the Kurdistan Regional Government after the incident.[11]
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Church of Mar Gewargis
A house in Badarash
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