Tahsin Beg, was the leader of a persecuted, in all the world-scattered people. The Prince of the Yazidis died on Monday in exile in Germany. At the weekend he should be in the North of Iraq to be buried.
As one of the darkest hours of his people broke, was Tahsin Beg for 70 years leader of the Yazidis. The jihadists militia of the so-called Islamic state (IS) enslaved, raped, and murdered 2014, thousands of Yazidis in Northern Iraq. From exile, mainly in Germany, tried to Tahsin Beg, to help as a political leader of his people. He taught Appeals to the world community, and called for the protection of troops. However, Tahsin Beg, was not able to stop the disaster.
“No event has claimed him as of in August 2014 by the Islamic state committed genocide of the Yezidis in the Sinjar area,” according to the Central Council of Yazidis in Germany, on the occasion of the death of Tahsin Beg. He died on Monday after a long illness, in the Siloam hospital at the age of 85 years, in Hannover, Germany. Until recently, he had worked to allow the fleeing Yazidis to return to their homeland. This goal he has followed “with great energy, but the success he was denied,” the Central Council.
The jesidische human rights activist, Nadia Murad, wrote on Twitter, Tahsin Beg, was a “wise leader with a firm Belief in peace”. With decency and he Would have led his people in difficult times. Murad himself was been the IS enslaved. Last month, she took for her fight against sexual violence, the Nobel prize.
Rebirth instead of hell
Tahsin Beg, was born in 1933 in the North of Iraq. As his father Said Beg died in 1944, he was appointed at the early age of eleven years, to his successor, the so-called Me, the Prince of the Yazidis. This is to represent the Kurdish-speaking minority in the world and ensure their Survival. Because in the course of its history, which dates back to the ancient world, were the Yazidis are always the target of persecution and expulsion.
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Their Faith is related to Islam, Judaism and Christianity, knows, however, neither the devil nor hell. There is also no sacred Scriptures like the Koran or the Bible, the faith teachings are recorded. From the oral Tradition, Yazidis believe in transmigration and re-birth. The IS apply the up to a Million Yazidis as “infidels”. But with the rise of the jihadists, they were persecuted the Kurdish minority.
Impotence in the face of genocide
“Tahsin Beg has made already in the 1970s on the side of the Kurdish Peshmerga against Saddam Hussein,” says the Orientalist, Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, belongs to jesidischen community in Germany. “He had to flee to Iran, and was later the target of an assassination attempt and then went on to England,” says Kizilhan in an interview with DW. Last Beg lived mainly in Germany, as some 150,000 other Yazidis.
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In the face of genocide, starting in 2014, Tahsin was Beg, however, “very helpless and powerless,” says Kizilhan. He had been due to his illness, neither during nor after the genocide in a position to lead his people: “He may be the last Prince of the Yazidis, because its successor is due to the genocide by the IS difficulties, to gather this people back and to give him a perspective.” In the case of the Yezidis in Germany, the rule in view of the death of their leader, with great sadness, says Kizilhan. An era coming to an end. The Yazidis in Germany on Wednesday with an opportunity to adopt in the context of a funeral in Hanover by Tahsin Beg.
The successor for reforms?
Most of the Yazidis are still living very traditional, partly in Patriarchal structures. The community must now face the challenges of a globalized world, says Kizilhan. This concerns, in particular, the caste system and the marriage rules, which contribute to the social isolation of the Yazidis. A marriage with members of other castes or Non-Yezidis as a taboo. “The new Prince must reform the rules and structures,” says Kizilhan: “This is a big challenge.”
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According to media reports, Tahsin Beg has appointed his son Hasem as the successor. According to Kizilhan, the “High Council of the Yazidis will consult” with the princely family, to determine in the coming days or weeks for a new Prince. In addition to the secular leaders of the religious leader, the “Baba Sheikh” of the Yazidis.
Burial in native earth
The “Baba Sheikh”, will also speak at the funeral of Tahsin Begs the prayer for the dead. You should take place in four to five days in the vicinity of the city of Duhok in Baadre – with washings, purification ceremonies and Prayers. Thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Yazidis, says Orientalist Kizilhan in the DW-interview, would be expected. Also Kizilhan wants to be the political leader of his people, the last honour and to Northern Iraq to travel.
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