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Iraq
Mosul too insecure for Kurdish Shabak families, now settled in Duhok
2018-07-27
[Rudaw] This Kurdish Shabak family recently moved to Bardarash in Duhok from their home in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
. Displaced by the war with ISIS, the family had initially returned to their home following the city's liberation - but security concerns soon convinced them to leave.

There are around 200,000 Shabak Kurds
...yet another of the unnoticed minorities in Iraq, this time a sub-population of Kurds who speak a North Iranian Kurdish dialect and follow a 14th century Muslim mysticism that may or may not be heretical, though they mostly consider themselves Shiites. They mostly live in thirty-five villages east of Mosul; estimates of their population ranged as high as 550,000 before ISIS rampaged through the area....
in Iraq. Before the war with ISIS, the ethno-religious minority was concentrated in villages around Mosul.

"The government is very weak. Even if it exists, it is not during both daylight and night. People, especially Shabak, do not feel 100 percent secure when staying at home," said Ahmed Sadiq, one of the Shabak IDPs.

More than 50 Shabak families have moved from Mosul to Duhok due to a lack of security and basic services. They have settled in Bardarash, Shekhan, and Khabat.

"There is no security. The government is a failure in Mosul," said another IDP, Ahmed Shahab.
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