SHENGAL – According to information obtained by ANHA’s agency, the “Sixth District Border Guard” command of the Iraqi army has built an armed concrete wall on the border separating north and east Syria and Shengal, with instructions it received from Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, whose term has ended.
The information indicated that the Iraqi army is strengthening the wall with watchtowers and thermal surveillance cameras, while construction work continues along the border since mid-March. According to sources from within the forces supervising the construction of the wall, “the length of the borders on which the wall will be built is about 250 km and about 4 meters high, which is the length of the border separating Shengal and north and east Syria.
According to observers, the construction of the wall comes within the framework of the secret terms that were agreed upon between the Al-Kazemi government and the Kurdistan Democratic Party within the October 9, 2020 agreement, to plot against the will of the Yazidi community in Shengal, with dictates from Turkey.
The wall aims to isolate Shengal from its Kurdish surroundings and to dismember Kurdistan, which was divided by the colonial powers in the Sykes-Picot Agreement in 1916 into 4 parts between Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.
It is noteworthy that the Turkish occupation army also built a concrete wall along the border separating north and east Syria and Bakur Kurdistan a year ago.
