1935 Yazidi revolt

1935 Yazidi revolt
DateOctober 1935
Location
Result Revolts suppressed
Territorial
changes
Jabal Shingal put under military control
Belligerents
Iraq Kingdom of Iraq Iraqi Yazidi tribes
Commanders and leaders
Iraq Yasin al-Hashimi
Iraq Bakr Sidqi
No centralized leadership
Casualties and losses
200 villagers killed

The 1935 Yazidi revolt took place in Iraq in October 1935. The Iraqi government, under Yasin al-Hashimi, crushed a revolt by the Yazidi people of Jabal Shingal against the imposition of conscription. The Iraqi army, led by Bakr Sidqi, reportedly killed over 200 Yazidi and imposed martial law throughout the region. Parallel revolts opposing conscription also broke out that year in the northern (Kurdish populated) and mid-Euphrates (majorly Shia populated) regions of Iraq.

The Yazidis of Jabal Shingal constituted the majority of Iraqi Yazidi population - the third largest non-Muslim minority within the kingdom. In 1939, the region of Jabal Shingal was once again put under military control, together with the Shekhan District.

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