Fight against “Islamic state”: German gardner states civilian troops of the Jesiden

Jesidi men on the escape (archives picture): Not all remain like Qasim Shesho in the mountains

Since soon Qasim Shesho in the being crowd mountains in north Iraq keeps itself four weeks entrenched. The gardner from North Rhine-Westphalia is the sudden hero of the Jesiden: He states civilian troops, which fight against the terrorists of the “Islamic state”.

Once the day Qasim Shesho tries to call its family in Germany. That is not simple, because the mobile phone needs river. From time to time a car goes past, then Shesho its mobile phone at the car battery loads. It is hot in the mountains, over forty degrees during the day, its people has too little water. Straight one again threw an airplane off plastic bottles, from so large height that they all burst.
Since at the beginning of August keeps itself Shesho, hidden 62, in the being crowd mountains and states together with a son and a nephew a small troop of men, among them old men with long beards and turban. With old rifles they hold the position and protect its pilgrim place Sherfedin before fighters of the terrorist organization “Islamic State of” (IS). It is civilian troops, which fight for surviving a whole people. Several ten thousand Jesiden, member of a Kurdish-speeking religious minority, had fled here, when on 3 August against two the jihadists their attack on the region began o'clock in the morning. Later US president Barack Obama air strikes decided five days on the IS-positions. So for a long time humans had endured with the heat in the mountains, several hundreds, under it particularly many children, died of thirst. When American jets and drones had free-shot a way, the refugees brought in security or by helicopters saved themselves. A few hundreds - old person, injured and children - are to still endure there.


Jesiden on the escape: Dusty and thirstily direction of Syrian border

Shesho remained voluntary. First there was only about three hundred men, who followed its example and followed it. But gradually more and more the mountains came up, weapons shouldered, a few magazines with ammunition at the belt, decided, to oppose the jihadists. In the meantime there should soon two thousand men, several thousand Jesiden can besides straight on weapons be trained and wanted as soon as possible into the fight to pull. Return to Iraq after Saddams end of Shesho is their leader, who boss of the resistance, hero of the Jesiden - which Germans, which fled 1981 with its wife and the children from being crowd, before Saddam Hussein and its troops, who wanted to destroy the Kurds. The Sheshos tried its luck first in Syria, where they lived nine years long. In addition, they felt there that them, which were unwanted Kurds and Jesiden. To the family 1990 the escape succeeded to Germany, in the North-Rhine/Westphalian bath Oeynhausen. It recognized as people entitled to asylum, later received it the German nationality. Shesho worked as a gardner.