Kani Balavi

Kani Balavi[nb 1] (Arabic: كانى بلاڤ‎, Syriac: ܟܢܝ ܒܠܦ̮‎)[4] a village in Dohuk Governorate in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is located in the district of Amadiya and the historical region of Barwari.

Kani Balavi
Kani Balavi
Location in Iraq
Coordinates: 37°10′41.4″N 43°11′07.3″E
Country Iraq
Region Kurdistan Region
GovernorateDohuk Governorate
DistrictAmadiya District
Sub-districtKani Masi

In the village, there is a church of Mart Maryam.[5]

History

Kani Balavi was inhabited by 20-30 Assyrian families in 1850.[6] After the Assyrian genocide in the First World War, Assyrian refugees from Ashitha in Turkey settled at Kani Balavi, and the village had a population of 110 people by 1933,[5] in which year it was looted and burned by the Iraqi army during the Simele massacre.[7] In 1938, 20 families populated Kani Balavi.[5] The village had a small Jewish community of several families until their departure in 1949.[4][6] The population increased to 190 Assyrians by the Iraqi census of 1957, and in 1961, there were 70 families in 35 houses.[6] The village's population temporarily fled and took refuge elsewhere during the First Iraqi–Kurdish War in the 1960s, and later returned.[8] Kani Balavi was destroyed by the Iraqi army, and its population forcibly expelled, during the Al-Anfal campaign in 1988.[6]

15 Assyrian families returned and rebuilt Kani Balavi,[8] but it was reported that Kurds from neighbouring villages had illegally seized the village's water sources and constructed houses on villagers' land in 1992.[1] In early 2009, 72 displaced Assyrians, with 19 families, resided at Kani Balavi.[9] By 2011, the Supreme Committee of Christian Affairs had constructed 39 houses, a church, and community hall, and developed the village's infrastructure.[4] In August 2014, the Assyrian Church of the East Relief Organisation reported there were 45 displaced Assyrian families in the village,[10] and the Assyrian Aid Society provided humanitarian aid in November.[3]

References

Notes

  1. Alternatively transliterated as Kani Bilaveh,[1] Kani Balaf,[2] Kanya Balave,[2] Kani Balav,[2] Kani Balave.[3]

Citations

  1. "Universal Periodic Review of the State of Iraq: Annex: Table for 94 cases showing the land grab of the Assyrian villages". Assyrian Aid Society. 28 March 2019. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  2. Donabed (2015), p. 112.
  3. Patto, Christina K.; Eskrya, Eramia S. (2014). "Assyrian Aid Society of Iraq: Annual Report 2014" (PDF). Assyrian Aid Society. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  4. "Kani blavi". Ishtar TV. 25 June 2011. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  5. Donabed (2015), pp. 323-324.
  6. Donabed (2010), p. 207.
  7. Donabed (2010), p. 290.
  8. Eshoo (2004), p. 5.
  9. "The Struggle to Exist Part I: An Introduction to the Assyrians and their Human Rights Situation in the New Iraq" (PDF). Assyria Council of Europe. February 2010. p. 33. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  10. "Relief Campaign In Full Force". Assyrian Church of the East Relief Organisation. 8 August 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2020.

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