Published December 06,2024
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Ezidis, who fled from the Sinjar district of Mosul, Iraq, because of the Daesh/ISIS occupation and later couldn’t return to their houses due to the PKK terrorist group’s presence, started the standard olive harvest at their sacred website in Lalish.
After the ISIS assault on Sinjar in 2014, 1000’s of Ezidis left their houses and sought refuge within the camps within the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) space of Iraq and Lalish, the non secular middle of the Ezidi faith, and a spot of annual pilgrimage within the Duhok district.
Having fled from ISIS, the Ezidis have been unable to return to their houses for nearly a decade because of the occupation of the district by the PKK.
The Ezidis’ separation from their houses has continued for years because of the failure to implement the 2020 Sinjar Agreement signed between the Baghdad and Erbil governments, which additionally included the removing of PKK terrorists from Sinjar.
Mir Hazim Tahsin Beg, the chief of the Ezidi group in Iraq, and native authorities have regularly known as for the implementation of the Sinjar Agreement.
Thousands of individuals dwelling away from their houses collect in Lalish in December for the olive harvest, which is among the most vital occasions for them.
– DUE TO PKK OCCUPATION, EZIDIS CELEBRATE HOLIDAYS WITH HEAVY HEART
Ezidis rejoice sacred days like “Red Wednesday” away from their houses with a heavy coronary heart because of the PKK’s presence in Sinjar.
They go to the Lalish Temple for his or her worship, lighting candles and oil lamps as they pray.
Ezidis additionally connect nice significance to the olive harvest held each December in Lalish.
The olive oil produced from the olives harvested in Lalish is used for the oil lamps that illuminate the Lalish Temple each night.
– HUNDREDS OF EZIDIS PARTICIPATE IN OLIVE HARVEST EACH YEAR
Mervan Huseyin, who participated within the olive harvest in Lalish, informed Anadolu that they historically start the olive harvest in Lalish yearly initially of December.
“Hundreds of people, both women and men, participate in this work. These olives are stored in warehouses in Lalish, and every year in April, a ceremony is held to press the olives and obtain olive oil. This oil is used for the temple’s oil lamps,” Huseyin mentioned.
Bibo Hudeda, one other participant, defined that they contemplate it as a “service.”
“If I am not ill, I participate in the olive harvest in Lalish’s gardens every year. I don’t want to miss out on this goodness. Everyone can participate,” he mentioned.
The terrorist group PKK managed to determine a foothold in Sinjar in 2014 underneath the pretext of defending the Ezidi group from Daesh/ISIS terrorists.
Sinjar has a strategic place, mendacity some 120 kilometers (74 miles) from the important thing metropolis of Mosul, near the Turkish-Syrian border.
Estimates put the overall Ezidi inhabitants internationally at almost 700,000 individuals. They are concentrated in northern Iraq but in addition dwell in nations like Syria and Türkiye.
In its 40-year terror marketing campaign towards Türkiye, the PKK-listed as a terrorist group by Türkiye, the US, and EU-has been accountable for the deaths of over 40,000 individuals, together with girls, youngsters, infants and the aged.
Source: www.anews.com.tr