Bashiqa
Encyclopedia
Bashiqa is a town located in the Al-Hamdaniya District
of the Ninawa Governorate
in northern Iraq
. Bashiqa's residents are mostly Yazidi
s, Assyrian
Christian
s and Muslim
s.
In 2007, a large mob in Bashiqa lynched a local 17-year-old girl
as “armed and uniformed police st[oo]d by watching her being killed over several minutes”.
Al-Hamdaniya District
Al-Hamdaniya District is one of ten districts that make up the Ninawa Governorate, Iraq.Towns and villages include:*Bakhdida*Bartella*Bashiqa*Karamles...
of the Ninawa Governorate
Ninawa Governorate
Ninawa is a governorate in northern Iraq, and the Arabic name for the biblical city of Nineveh in Assyria. It has an area of and an estimated population of 2,453,000 people in 2003. Its chief city and provincial capital is Mosul, which lies across the Tigris river from the ruins of ancient...
in northern Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
. Bashiqa's residents are mostly Yazidi
Yazidi
The Yazidi are members of a Kurdish religion with ancient Indo-Iranian roots. They are primarily a Kurdish-speaking people living in the Mosul region of northern Iraq, with additional communities in Transcaucasia, Armenia, Turkey, and Syria in decline since the 1990s – their members emigrating to...
s, Assyrian
Assyrian people
The Assyrian people are a distinct ethnic group whose origins lie in ancient Mesopotamia...
Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
s and Muslim
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
s.
In 2007, a large mob in Bashiqa lynched a local 17-year-old girl
Stoning of Du'a Khalil Aswad
-Asylum and return:Some news agencies reported that Aswad was being sheltered by a Yazidi tribal leader in Bashika in fear of her life until her family persuaded her that she had been forgiven and could return home. Other reports indicate that she was instead given asylum by a local Muslim Sheikh...
as “armed and uniformed police st[oo]d by watching her being killed over several minutes”.