ملاجئ الموت - بغداد Shelters of death

مجلة الحوار

بقلم: مريم جعفر

في هذا الاستطلاع تحاول مجلة الحوار ان تستقصي اراء يعض المدونين لتتعرف على حجم تاثيرهم في المشهد العراقي، وحجم تفاعلهم مع الاحداث، واهم المشاكل التي تواجههم.
ابتدأ حديثة بضحكة طويلة وقال: "الحكومة لا تزعجني انا الذي ازعج الحكومة عنما اقوم بنشر الاخبار والحقائق عن وضع العراق في مدونتي (ملاجئ الموت)".
بابتسامة عريضة وقلب مليء بالأمل يقول المدون العراقي (سحاب) ذو الـ27 عاما لمجلة الحوار "أنا أحب توثيق معاناة الناس ومساعدتهم، كما أنني لن انسى الجرائم التي حصلت في مدينتي بغداد، ولن أنسى الضحايا".

* أكمل قراءة المقال هنا:
http://alhiwarmagazine.blogspot.com/2011/12/2003.html

Three blogs, each dedicated to collecting articles about a controversial Iraq shelter:

Jadriya Bunker: the first secret prison discovered in Iraq after 2003, where torture of Sunnis was systematic during the tumultuous administration of Interior minister Badr-affiliated Baqir Solagh in 2005

http://aljadriya.blogspot.com

Amiriyah shelter: which was bombed by Ameican warplanes in 13-2-1991 during the Gulf war.
http://alamriya.blogspot.com

Iraqi bloggers and social media activists speak up for their country

By Maryam Mohammed Jaafar*

Published on December 1, 2011

The 27-year-old Sahab gives a long laugh: “The Iraqi government doesn’t bother me when I publish news and facts about the situation in Iraq in my blog.”

“I write under a pseudonym so no one knows my real identity,” he says, explaining this choice: “If the government finds out who I am, it will start to follow me and restrict me.”

Sahab’s smile is filled with hope when he adds: “I know it’s dangerous to write but it’s important to document the suffering of the people and help them by letting others know the truth. I don’t want the crimes that happened in my country to be forgotten.”

بعد أن عرفت بمدوناتي في غارها سابقا
http://ishtar-enana.blogspot.com/2010/07/blog-post_6568.html

الصديقة عشتار تكتب عني من جديد:
الصديق سحاب الذي يدير بصبر عجيب اربع مدونات حول الملاجيء والسجون السرية في العراق هي ملجأ الحنان ، ملجأ الجادرية ، ملجأ العامرية ، ملاجيء الموت ، ويبحث عن أي معلومة تتعلق بهذه القضايا لتوثيقها، وبين المصادر التي يبحث عنها مدونات الجنود الأمريكان، وقد دأب بنفس الصبر والإصرار على أن يبعث اليّ بعناوين أي مدونة يصادفها ويرى أن فيها معلومات قد تفيد مدونتي، مما يشعرني بالخجل لأني لا أفعل الشيء نفسه معه، ليس لأني لا أجد إشارات تخص مواضيع اهتمامه ولكن لأني أنسى هذا الهدف في أحيان كثيرة وأنا ابحث عما يصلح لمدونتي . أقدم لك ياسحاب شديد اعتذاري، وشديد امتناني.

من المدونات التي ارسلها اليوم اليّ مدونة "إطفاء الأنوار turning out the lights" وصاحبها جندي مدفعية مقره في معسكر امريكي في الموصل. وإليكم ما عثرت عليه في آخر موضوع كتبه :
http://ishtar-enana.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post_6591.html

Baghdadification

I do not think enough people know about this: The Amiriyah Shelter Massacre. (self.reddit.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Baghdadification to reddit.com

I visited this shelter while living in Baghdad, around 2002. I was still in school back then and it was a school trip (mind you, it was the Baghdad International School, which was a UN school - not a propaganda trip.)

Of course, there weren't any bodies lying around or anything. However, you could see the silhouettes of people who were burned alive against the walls; what I will never forget was the frame of a mother holding her child, and a pair of handprints. The silhouettes were the melted skin of the victims.

In total, over 400 people died in this shelter. Nearly all of those people were women and children.

I found a couple of videos on youtube (1 - 2) with pictures. I warn you though, these are partly very graphic. Also, someone started a blog with a description of what happened.

As an Iraqi, I'm not asking for sympathy or pity. I just want you to see what happened in Iraq even in 1991, which is nothing compared to what is happening in Iraq since 2003.

Thanks.

كتيت عشتار العراقية في مدونتها غار عشتار :
الصديق (سحاب) يقوم بعمل رائع ربما لم يفكر فيه عراقي من قبل. انه مختص بملاحقة الملاجيء التي أصبحت أفخاخا للتعذيب والموت، يوثق للتاريخ ماحدث فيها. له ثلاث مدونات:

ملجأ الجادرية

ملجأ الحنان

ملجأ العامرية

هو نفسه احد الناجين من واحد من هذه الملاجيء . يقول عن نفسه في مدونته (الجادرية) :

سجينٌ في العراق ولست فيه .. ملاجيء لحماية المدنيين تحولت الى مقابر لهم ... وأنا أحد الذين كتب الله لهم النجاة.

http://ishtar-enana.blogspot.com/2010/07/blog-post_6568.html

MIX MAX
Monday, March 15, 2010

Al Amiriya Shelter - Documentary

I received an email from Sahab bringing my attention to Al-Amiriya: The Shelter.

Sahab, for those who still don't know is one of few committed and honorable people around documenting and showing the truth about atrocities too place against the Iraqi people, focusing on the shelters of death, one of these shelters is Al Amiriya - first time I wrote about this tragedy was last year, then I wrote about the interview Al Baghdadia channel conducted with families of victims.

The documentary is made by Siham Jouhari, a French flim maker of Morrocan origin, known for the award winning short movie “Faces of wrath”, about the war on Gaza in 2009.

I took a look at the website but could not find any news or a source to the movie.

Anyone knows about the movie, please let me know.

http://iraqthelastinglove.blogspot.com/2010/03/al-amiriya-shelter-documentary.html

Interview with Sahab [junkel99] on Whohub

Interview with:
Sahab [junkel99]
BLOGGING
What is your blog address? What subjects do you deal with?
I have three blogs, each dedicated to collecting articles about a controversial Iraq shelter http://aljadriya.blogspot.com/

http://alamriya.blogspot.com/

http://alhanaan.blogspot.com/

i make it as groupe of blogs by subject (shelters of death in Baghdad) http://3shelters.blogspot.com/
What was it that made you create your blog? On what date did you start it?
i made this blog to be not forget Crimes that took place against innocent civilians in Baghdad and the blood of the victims do not go in vain i start blogging in Mars 2008
What blogging system have you adopted and why?
i use blogger because google is the best
How many visits a day do you get? What type of comments do you receive?
50 visitors in day in Jadriya bunker blog http://aljadriya.blogspot.com i received many types of comments : ask help , sympathy , Support , more info , Cursing , Opposition
How has 'having a blog' contributed to your life?
I knew a lot about the crimes and victims and the secrets of shelters in baghdad from my blogs and visitors
Have you created relationships with other bloggers or readers of your blog?
other bloggers wiriting about me and my blogs and readers happy to find one post for this crimes
Does blogging bring in income for you? Can one make a living from posting?
To help people is enough for me
How do you promote your blog?
i put my blogs in many web
How would you define your readers? Have you got a faithful audience?
Families of the victims and missing persons and media follow me
What advice would you give to someone who wishes to begin a blog?
he must made one blog and know his gole

http://www.whohub.com/junkel99

First Gulf War

MEMORIALS
AL-AMIRIYAH SHELTER MEMORIAL
Type: Physical memorial

ملجأ العامرية :Alternative name

Location: Baghdad

Country: Iraq

After 1991 the shelter was turned into a memorial. The blog http://alamriya.blogspot.com/ is devoted to this event and has published several images from the memorial. The Japanese online magazine The Shugoku Shimbun has also published some images in this article about the event.

POSTED BY JON BRUNBERG ON 2005-09-22

http://war-memorial.net/Al-amiriyah-Shelter-Memorial-1.73

Dear Mr. Sahab,

I have found your article ''Amriya Shelter''' posted on your website. My name is Siham Jouhari and I am doing a research about the US bombing on the Al-Amiriya Shelter in 1991.

I am actually preparing a Master in Fine Art at the New York Film Academy in Abu Dhabi and have chosen this terrible and unfortunately forgotten massacre to develop it into a screenplay and later a movie which I hope will be released in 2011 for the 20th Sad Anniversary.

I did not visit the site in Baghdad neither met the witnesses, the only sources I have so far are based on blogger's site, US reports and other International News media that I prefer to avoid.

I would like to show and tell stories of the people during this event of war as well as the suffering later when the embargo was imposed. I could never talk better than those people even if my craft necessitate an important part of imagination but in this particular case my heart is silent as I never experienced LOST.

I have heard about this lady ''Umm...'' who lost her eight children and husband while going home across the street to bring them food, that is the character I would like to discover as it is just incredible how human adapt and can survive such pain.

Therefore, I would like to know if by any chance you have met witnesses or better the seven survivors which names are not being released.

I will be more than happy if I can get anything such as stories, names, photos, memoir etc....

I thank you for your involvement as a writer and hope to hear from you in the near near future.

Best Regards...

Mrs. Siham Jouhari

Iraq The Lasting Love ~~ العراق... اسميك المحبة

http://iraqthelastinglove.blogspot.com/

:MIXMAX SAY

What is most interesting on this blog is the the contrasts and combination between the politics of yesterday and the politics of today, both pour in the same jar: the suffering of the Iraqi peopleGreat blog. I checked you other two blogs and I have none but my compliments and admiration to the effort you are doing in documenting everything related to these issues.

and edit in his blog

there is a exclusive blog (in Arabic and English) on the tragedy, can found here to commemorate the victims of Al Amiriya Shelter. It is by a blogger under the name Sahab, who also created another blog about the children from al Hanan orphanage. It contains many pictures and videos, in addition to eye witnesses and interviews with people concerning this genocide. In addition, in 2001 a research center has been established in Madrid, Spain named after the doomed site i.e. Al Amiriya Center for Documentation and International Initiatives, that deals with the autrocities committed by U.S. forces during that war (they seems to fail to foresee the future and the events followed 2003 and until now).God bless the souls of Al Amiriya Shelter vicitims, and may they rest in peace, forever and ever.

http://iraqthelastinglove.blogspot.com/2009/02/al-amiriya-shelter.html

أول من كتب عن مدوناتي هو الأخ عباس هوازن في موقع دليل المدونات العراقية

http://iraqblogcount.blogspot.com/

Sahab has three blogs, each dedicated to collecting articles about a

controversial Iraq shelter

al-Jadriya Shelter, where torture of Sunnis was systematic during the tumultuous administration of Interior minister Badr-affiliated Baqir Solagh in 2005