Harir, Iraq

Harir () is a town and sub-district located in the district of Shaqlawa, Erbil, Kurdistan Region in Iraq. 
History.
Evliya Çelebi included the town as part of Kurdistan in his demarcation and mentioned that the town was ruled by Mir Xanzad. The town was destroyed during the World War I and rebuilt by Assyrian Nestorian refugees from Hakkâri. A church was built during the reconscruction. In 1938, Harir had seventy-eight families (485 people). Prior to its destruction, the total number of Assyrian households numbered over ninety.
In the 1947 census, the town had a population of 8,930 of which 95% of was Kurdish.
According to the Kurdish Center for Human Rights, on 18 February 2006 the Kurdish Minister of Human Rights discussed the uncovering of a mass grave in which some thirty-seven bodies were identified as Assyrians originally from Harir.
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