Ahmed Al-Dabbagh - Mosul

Iraqi activists launched a social media campaign, "#Whenham", demanding that the government and its president, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, disclose the fate of the forcibly disappeared, who are estimated to number in the thousands who had disappeared during the military operations against ISIS between 2014 and 2017.

Within hours of its launch, the campaign achieved more than thirty thousand tweets, in order to put more pressure on parliament and the government, whose president, Al-Kazemi, had promised in his government program to reveal their fate.

Part of the minutes of the committee in charge of investigating the events of the forcibly disappeared in Sajr and Saqlawiyah. This report shows the disappeared in numbers,
Mr. Prime Minister @MAKadhimi to activate these committees and deal with their results seriously and realistically. We are
born # pic.twitter.com/0kX3E0VpNg

- The Book of Libra (@ketab_almezan) May 30, 2020

A mixed figure,
one of the campaign organizers, the activist "Kitab Al-Mizan", confirmed in his speech to Al-Jazeera Net that the campaign is not the first, but it may be the strongest in which it is required to reveal the thousands of missing persons who disappeared during the military operations in the areas that were under the control of the State.

Our collective salvation is from the inferno of violence, exclusion, enforced disappearance, arrest, arbitrary punishments, massacres, and other perpetual violence that the authority has exercised against us as a people.
If we ask about our brothers today # and they are accused of having a wedding, we will ask someone.

- nooraqaissi (@nooraqaissi) May 30, 2020

Al-Mizan called on the government to reveal their fate, stating that the government should provide those guilty of them to the judiciary if they were alive, or hand over their bodies in the event of their death and prosecute their killers, stressing that the campaign was launched after Al-Kazemi took over the presidency and reminded him of his pledges to solve this issue, especially as he was heading the Iraqi intelligence service .

As for the numbers of the disappeared, Al-Mizan comments that the estimates indicate between 20 and 25 thousand, who were kidnapped by gunmen wearing the uniforms of the security forces in many areas in Saqlawiyah, Zizib, and Al-Razzaza in Anbar Governorate (west of the country), in addition to Salahuddin and Nineveh provinces (north).

For its part, the deputy in the Iraqi parliament, Ikhlas Al-Dulaimi, revealed that there is a large and real procrastination in the file of the disappeared, indicating that the decision-makers deal with great caution in this file, and that the number of disappeared from the areas recovered by the army from ISIS is estimated at 28 thousand, including those who lost During the organization’s control period.

Al-Dulaimi, who is considered one of the disappeared and lost about thirty members of her family, including her father, adds that the number of those who lost during the organization's control of Nineveh is estimated to be about three thousand people whose fate is still unknown and they have not been found or their bodies so far.

Al-Dulaimi believes in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net that this file has become used politically before and during every electoral process, as electoral propaganda only.

The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights revealed last year about 25 thousand people who are forcibly disappeared or missing in the governorates of Nineveh, Anbar and Salah al-Din, criticizing the slow pace of the government's actions in determining their fate, while pointing out that the State Organization and other armed parties bear responsibility.

A thorny file
is a thorny file and has been suspended for years, but the new Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi stressed from the beginning of his mandate the need to find a solution to the problem of the kidnappers and the disappeared, as well as his order to form a high committee headed by the Minister of Interior to investigate the facts about the existence of secret government prisons in which protesters and others are held, and permission This committee may enter any institution where a secret prison is suspected.

Addressing Ministry of Interior officers ... the Prime Minister @MAKadhimi: Do not be afraid of anyone claiming political affiliation, act against kidnapping gangs and organized crime, and do more to reduce the spread of drugs, as well as to fight corruption, slack and political interference. pic.twitter.com/cuaSHQY4rs

- Prime Minister's Information Office @ (@IraqiPMO) May 17, 2020

Haneen Al-Qadu, a member of the Iraqi Parliament from the Al-Fateh bloc, believes that the "Winham" campaign preferred one category over another, and it should have included all those forcibly disappeared in Iraq, as there are hundreds of people who have been kidnapped and lost in Tal Afar, Sinjar, Badush, Spyker and on the way to Baghdad and other components. , And the campaign did not mention them.

In spite of Al-Kazemi’s promises to settle the file, Al-Qudo believes that it is very difficult to resolve the file of the disappeared in general, believing that the majority of those who were kidnapped and of all the components have been killed or have been liquidated, and therefore the governmental procedures are complicated and difficult, according to him.

For his part, security expert Maan Al-Jubouri indicates that absenteeism entails many cases for the relatives of the missing between the trial of those who were alive or the settlement of their files and compensation for the families of the deceased and holding the perpetrators accountable, as the case of the disappeared is still pending between life and death, believing that Al-Kazemi will face Great difficulties in this file, security and political.

On the other hand, Fadel Abu Ragheef, an expert on militant groups, sees in his interview with Al-Jazeera Net that the military operations in Iraq make it difficult to determine the party that kidnapped the disappeared, stressing that all government agencies do not have satisfactory answers to resolve the file.

Abu Ragheef commented, "The disappeared (the disappeared) are not only Sunnis, as there are dozens of other components who went missing before and after 2014 on the roads linking the northern governorates and were buried as anonymous and their cases have not been resolved so far, so the situation can be described as everyone looking for Everyone, "according to him.

A great interaction,
activist and journalist writer from Babel governorate Aziz Al-Rubaie believes that the "#Whenham" campaign in the areas that were subject to the Islamic State was launched after a stream of government promises during and after the elections to reveal the fate of the disappeared and missing, and that it came to complement the protests that Iraq has witnessed since October The last one, to put more pressure on the Al-Kazemi government.

And on the possibility of resolving the file, Al-Rubaie concludes his talk to Al-Jazeera Net that Al-Kazemi cannot put himself in the face of political blocs that have armed wings and have their own agenda.

# Where are they? The question that will put Al-Kazemi before a real test about the seriousness of his government by caring for the interests of people and preserving their security and dignity

Fate in Iraq is not as much as it is destiny

Aziz Al-Rubaie Aziz Alrubaye (@aziz_alrubaye) May 30, 2020

As for the activist Ali Al-Tamimi, he confirmed to Al-Jazeera Net that the "# Winham" tag should have been inclusive of all Iraqi missing persons and of various components, considering that the factional claims undermine the claims and do not achieve the goals and cause more societal rift, according to him.

The marking witnessed a great interaction, as the journalist Zaid Abdel Wahab tweeted, saying:

# It accuses the campaign of the disappeared and the kidnapped, it is not a regional or sectarian issue, it is # issue of home and society looking for social and family stability, which is not rooted until the return of the father, brother and son after an absence.

- Dr. Zaid Abdul Wahhab Al-Adhami (@zaidabdulwahab) May 30, 2020

As for Muhammad Al-Kubaisi, he wrote on Facebook:

The marking also received the tweet of prominent political figures such as Mishaan Al-Jubouri, who said:

# _ And they have a
question that awaits answering the fate of thousands of the forcibly disappeared? #_ And
they do not mean that we do not know his answer, because we know that they were arrested by militias wearing the clothes of the security forces, their cars, and their identities. They arrested everyone who led his misfortune. # _ And they are a
question that we will continue to ask until they return to their families alive or dead bodies pic .twitter.com / l7w5VEmIaX

- Mishaan Al Jubouri (@mashanaljabouri) May 30, 2020

On the other hand, the campaign witnessed several criticisms. Abu Daraa Al-Lami tweeted:

# He accuses and accuses the killers of the Dujail wedding # He accuses the murderers of the Triangle of Death # He accuses the killers of the Spyker massacre # And they accuse the murderers of the massacre of the Eagles massacre # And they accuse the killers of the Alawi martyr and the martyr the child, Maitham Al-Batat

- Your servant, Hajj Abu Daraa Al-Lami (@iraq_dera) May 30, 2020