Conflict: | 1935 Yazidi revolt |
Date: | October 1935 |
Place: | Jabal Shingal, Mosul province, Kingdom of Iraq |
Territory: | Jabal Shingal put under military control |
Result: | Revolts suppressed |
Combatant1: | Kingdom of Iraq |
Combatant2: | Iraqi Yazidi tribes |
Commander1: | Yasin al-Hashimi Bakr Sidqi |
Commander2: | No centralized leadership |
Casualties2: | 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.[1] [2] The Iraqi army, led by Bakr Sidqi, reportedly killed over 200 Yazidi and imposed martial law throughout the region.[1] 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.[2] In 1939, the region of Jabal Shingal was once again put under military control, together with the Shekhan District.[2]