The Story Behind Abolfazl Village

By Hossein Bouazar

Abolfazl village is located between Zardasht town and Kianshahr in Al-Ahwaz, where more than 300 families have been living for more than decades. Over the past years, all the governments that have come and gone tried to overtake these villages but the people of those villages resisted.

The question is why Iranian regime remembers this town now after many years  where families built houses and made a living from generations in Abolfazl village and other villages around Ahwaz.

From killing Ahwazi Activists to publicly announcing that they hate Arabs (in different platforms) to Iranian regime’s deliberate attempt to Forced Migrate the Ahwazi citizens from Ahwaz to other regions, there has been a plan since this regime’s early days.

After Iranian regime’s failure of force migrating Ahwazi Citizens from their lands with man-made floods in 2019. they have decided to go back to the old technique, this time Iranian regime decided to destroy Ahwaz and Ahwazi people by destroying their houses. Iranian regime told the Indigenous Ahwazi Arab farmers to leave their homeland to seek safety elsewhere.

In the Abolfazl village, an Ahwazi citizen showed the destroyed homes of the village and added “This is the fatherland of all of us, and it is not clear what they want from our lands.”

The regime attacked the villagers who were preventing the destruction of their homes. The repressive forces used force, guns and tear gas.

The regime has arrested more than 130 Ahwazi citizen from Abolfazl village and some are bailed out;

1. Younes Lowaime
2. Karim Lowaime
3. Jafar Lowaime
4. Saeed Lowaime
5. Rahim Lowaime
6. Nader Lowaime
7. Farugh Lowaime
8. Hakim Lowaime
9. Abdulemam Lowaime
10. Esmael Lowaime
11. Jafar Lowaime
12. Mohammad Lowaime
13. Mansour Lowaime
14. Ahmad Lowaime
15. Shejae Lowaime
16. Hashem Lowaime
17. Malek Lowaime
18. Sabah Haraji
19. Karim Haraji
20. Adnan Sawari
21. Lafteh Ghorbawi
22. Jasim Heydari
23. Majid Daghagheleh
24. Jasim Afrawi
25. Yousif Mousawi
26. Mohammad Moghinmi
27. Hossein Sayahi
28. Hadi Sayahi
29. Mehdi Sayahi
30. Hamid Silawi
31. Kazem Silawi
32. Jasem Silawi
33. Hamoud Silawi
34. Jolahi Silawi
35. Sajad Sharifi
36. Ali Meree
37. Ali Khasraji
38. Walid Borwaieh
39. Khalid Abidawi
40. Naser Khalidi
41. Mohammad Khalidi
42. Hassan Gherbawi
43. Ali Obidawi
44. Hassan Helfi
45. Amir Helfi
46. AbdulSadeh Helfi
47. Abdul Nabi Helfi
48. Salem Saidawi
49. Hakim Saidawi
50. Saeed Saidawi
51. Ali Heydari
52. Jamil Marwani
53. AbdulZahra Haraji
54. Khalaf Haraji
55. Adel Haraji
56. Adnan Haraji
57. Ramazan Haraji

While some of the people who work in the Iranian pro-regime media believe destroying indiginous Ahwazi houses is a wrongdoing by the regime and one of the reporters of khabargozari seda sima (Iranian pro-regime media) reported on the matter but that recording never aired on the Iranian national TV.

The threat of forced displacement, deportation or execution of the Ahwazis, Kurds, Turks, Baluchs and Turkmens has been a persistent threat inside Iran. The lack of reaction by the international community concerning the state of human rights in the Ahwaz region and other non-Persian regions, has given the Iranian regime the right of life and death over entire communities.

We, the Ahwazi Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), are concerned about the situation in Ahwaz regarding the arbitrary behavior of the Iranian security forces. Iranian regime must stop the racist ideology of removing Ahwazi Arabs from their lands.

The Ahwazi Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) strongly condemned the criminal attack by the repressive forces of Iran  on the village of Abolfazl.

Hossein Bouazar is a human rights activist from the Ahwaz region in Iran. He writes about human rights abuses committed on the Arab Ahwazi.

Ahwazi Centre for Human Rights

Date: 2020/08/28