The Filipino Kurds fell victim to the national and sectarian divide that led them to persecution, displacement, and treachery and confiscating their legitimate rights, including denying them Iraqi citizenship, and their marginalization by successive political regimes, including preventing their appointment to state departments since 1963 and even after the US invasion in 2003.
Perhaps one of the flagrant examples of the harm and harm that the Faili Kurds suffered was the forbidding of them to marry and forcibly separating their husbands, and this can be observed specifically during the Iraq-Iran war, and some Iraqis were forcibly forced to divorce the Faili wife or the Faili husband, as well as preventing them from completing graduate studies.
The Filipino Kurds are Shiite Muslims, and they speak a Kurdish accent that differs from those in Iraqi Kurdistan, and they live in eastern Iraq, specifically in the districts of Diyala and Wasit provinces and in the capital Baghdad, in addition to the Sulaimaniyah and Halabja provinces of Iraqi Kurdistan, while another part of them lives in the western regions of Iran.
Conflict and nationalism conflict
The Filipino Kurds were hoping to obtain their rights after the American invasion of the country in 2003, but their reality has increased misery and frustration as a result of their division into two groups on a sectarian and national basis, the first owes allegiance to the Iraqi government, and the second to the Iraqi Kurdistan government.
This division is attributed to the geography that demarcates the borders and influences the matter. As a result, the geographical constants contributed in one way or another to the existence of an ideological or national tendency, which increased the complexity of their reality and their future without any official political representation like the other minorities, whether in the Iraqi government or the region. .
The sectarian agitation that appeared in Iraq after 2003 contributed to the predominance of partisan and ideological affiliation, whether by the political blocs or their armed arms, which made the Faili Kurds a victim in any crisis between the Iraqi government and the region, says Professor of Political Thought at Al-Mustansiriya University, Issam al-Fili, to Al Jazeera Net .
The Faili Academy believes that many opponents of successive political systems in Iraq since 1963 have forgotten their principles and have been preoccupied with side matters and marginalized those who had support and assistance during the adversity, in reference to the sacrifices made by the Faili Kurds and their support for the Kurdish movement in 1964, and their support for the Shiite authority as well, according to Historical documents.
The absence of a filet mass that adopts their entitlements in the dialogues of the political blocs - according to al-Faili - is one of the most prominent reasons for not adopting the Kurdish-Faili issue within the institutional framework, whether from the Islamic parties in the Iraqi government or the Kurdish in Iraqi Kurdistan, and this issue has become a marginal par excellence.
A divided representation, and
the Kurdistan Region of Iraq refrained from granting the Filipino Kurds their rights according to the quota system “quotas” in its parliament, similar to other minorities such as Christians and Turkmen under the pretext that they are Kurds, while Al-Faili believes that tearing up their division and division is one of the most important reasons for not granting them their entitlement to prevent their emergence as an influential force in Iraq reflects negatively on the Faili Kurds in Iran and stimulates other components to claim their rights.
It can be seen that the elusive Kurds are distracted in distributing their constituents to several of their forces in the elections that took place in Iraq after 2003 and their lack of agreement on one person, and then everyone sought to win them, whether on the basis of sect or nationalism to serve the interests of those lists.
Fears, tensions and mutual mistrust between the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq have played a fundamental role in the sense of despair and neglect of the Faili Kurds on both sides of the equation and their lack of entitlement.
Baghdad and Erbil are close to the el-Faili component during the election season to obtain their votes, and once they are closed, the doors are closed to them and deprive them of their entitlements in state institutions, whether from the Shiite or Kurdish parties, as political analyst Diari Saleh al-Faili says to Al-Jazeera Net.
There is a fundamental point related to the national and sectarian nature of the Faili after 2003 - according to Saleh al-Fili - which is the attempt of the largest part of them to adhere to the structure of the Iraqi national identity, and this is what kept them away from national or sectarian extremism.
According to Saleh al-Fili, this trend scored a negative point for the Faili among the Shiite and Kurdish parties for being an unattractive factor, accusing these parties of practicing national or sectarian retrenchment similar to the policies of persecution that were practiced by the previous regimes against minorities and small components, including the Failiya.
The absence of external support and
Saleh Al-Faili stipulated to ensure the future of the Faili Kurds to adhere to the national identity, warning against losing this future in the event of avoiding that and getting involved in any conflicts between Baghdad and Erbil, noting in this regard the threatening operations that affected the Kurds, including the Faili Kurds living outside the region from the outskirts of Iraqi and considered unwelcome during the 2017 Iraqi Kurdistan authorities' secession referendum.
The absence of outreach and outward support for the Faili Kurds, in addition to not having militias, armed wing, or a strong political entity, can be considered one of the most prominent reasons that led to their marginalization by the governments of Baghdad and Erbil, unlike some components such as Turkmen, a large part of whom is supported by Turkey, which Help them gain some rights at the national or national level, says Fayrouz Hatem, the Filipino journalist and activist, for Al Jazeera Net.
Fayrouz Hatem describes the reality of the Faili Kurds as being like the ball that is thrown at the Shi'a stadium by the Kurds at times, or the Kurdish stadium by the Shiites at other times.
The Filipino journalist criticized the marginalization of her fellow citizens by Baghdad and Erbil, and the continued deliberate exclusion in the distribution of positions and special grades in the two governments, and subjecting them to partisan and political quotas.