A young Ezidi IDP of Shingal, home town for tens of thousands of Ezidi religious ethno-religious minority, gone missing while related security forces have not launched any investigations or follow up for the case, the second in 40 days.
Muhsin Essa Murad, a 28-year-old Ezidi Internally Displaced People IDP, resident of Duhok Northern Province, has told his wife on March 15, 2021 he is heading to Shingal but so far no one heard anything from him.
“He told his wife he is going to visit a friend in Shingal and has some work to do but since then he has not come back,” Hadi Murad, uncle of Muhsin told KirkukNow. Muhsin is a Peshmarga, Kurdish fighter in Sihela, father of three children.
“He has got two cell phones yet both are switched off. WE contacted Shingal and Duhok security forces but no any information about him,” his uncle added.
His relatives have not file lawsuit for his missing to Shignal authorities yet.
This is the second case following the disappearance of Hasan Hussein Khalil last February. Khalil, resident of Dawudi camp in Amedi District of Duhok Northern Province, left home on February 2 to Shingal district west of Mosul to head from there back to his work in Baghdad but he is gone missing up today.
Khalil is born in 1980 in Siba Sheikh Khidir of Shingal. He is father of 4 sons and 5 daughters. Khalil was member of the Iraqi army, deployed in Baghdad. NO concrete information about destiny of Khalil up today, according to KirkukNow follow up.
Local authorities are aware of the second case but complaint received yet.
“We have come to know that Musin Essa is missing but his relatives did not contact us directly to investigate his case and see if he went missing in Duhok or Shingal,” Natiq Alo Ahmed, media officer of Shingal police said.
Shingal is one of the disputed territories between Erbil-based Kurdistan Regional Government KRG and Iraqi government. It is home for Ezidi ethno-religious minority whom the Jihaddist fights of so-called Islamic State ISIS militants accuse of being infidels. In August 2104, ISIS took control of significant cities of the north, committing atrocities mounted to genocidal acts against the Ezidi minority, centered around their centuries-old ancestral home of Shingal.
Tens of thousands of Ezidis fled their homes toward Kurdistan and still in living in IDP camps. About 3,000 kidnapped women and girls are still missing after many were trafficked and enslaved in ISIS controlled Syrian territories. About 80 mass graves and tens of individual graves were found yet so far one fourth of it has been exhumed.
Since the military defeat of ISIS, discord over security arrangements, public services, and the lack of a unified administration, have plagued victims and survivors.
