On March 7th 2018 , Mr Shakir Mahmood Alkudady was beheaded and his dismembered body was thrown near the police station where he lived. These crimes are another reminder of how far the hatred and atrocities against minorities has reached without a true solution from the Iraqi government or the international community. This crime was followed by the killing of a peaceful Christian family of three in their home.
The atrocities against the peaceful Mandaeans, Christians and Yazidi of Iraq has gone without true efforts to stop from both the Iraqi government or the international community.
The government is yet to acknowledge that the minorities of Iraq has been subject to annihilation in the last 15 years. The Government provided no true protection and the majority of the mandaeans have been forced to leave their property and escaping for their lives. Genocide Watch has already considered what happen to the mandaeans as genocide.
The Iraqi government should work hand in hand with civil society and the international community to secure a better future for the generation of Iraqis and Iraqi minorities to come and put an end to the cycle of sectarian, religious, and ethnic violence. Establishing a “minority security council” representing religious minorities to guarantee a swift response in cases of emergency, and to implement permanent solutions to such ethno-religious problems. Such a council would act along with international supervision to guarantee its success.
There is urgency for the Iraqi government to investigate, prosecute and punish hate crimes against minorities, which include the confiscation of property, kidnapping, and rape; it is time for the International community to get involved in such investigations and not to let the hatred and lawlessness in Iraq erase the most ancient ethno-religions in the world.
