Slemani Museum Sulaymaniyeh Kurdistan Iraq January 2014
☀️ 360° VR Tour: Sulaymaniyah | Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan
A 360° VR Tour of Sulaymaniyah ) also known as Slemani, locally - the second city of Iraqi Kurdistan and home to perhaps the more metropolitan lifestyle than the capital city of Erbil! =] ☀️
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Sulaymaniyah
Azadi Park lake (0:01)
Alan Kurdi sculpture (0:53)
Rollerskating in Azadi Park (1:51)
Grand Mosque (2:46)
Chatty faithful (3:34)
Slemani Museum (4:18)
Amna Suraka prison-turned-museum (5:11) [Museum courtyard (5:31)
Guard Tower (5:52)
Military booty (6:11)
Vehicle (6:35)
Inside tank (6:55)
Large Tank (7:16)
Memorial sculpture (7:39)
Bullet-ridden prison administration building (8:01)
Tree tunnel (8:43)
Peshmerga craic (9:14).
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Sulaymaniyah is surrounded by the Azmer Range, Goyija Range and the Qaiwan Range in the northeast, Baranan Mountain in the south and the Tasluja Hills in the west. The city has a semi-arid climate with very hot dry summers and cool wet winters. Sulaymaniyah served as the capital of the historic Kurdish principality of Baban from 1784 to 1850. The modern city of Sulaymaniyah was founded on 14 November 1784 by the Kurdish prince Ibrahim Pasha Baban who named it after his father Sulaiman Pasha. From its foundation Sulaymaniyah was always a center of great poets, writers, historians, politicians, scholars and singers, such as Nalî, Mahwi, Piramerd, Muhammed Emin Zeki Bey, Taufiq Wahby, Sherko Bekas, Nuri Sheikh Salih Sheikh Ghani Barzinji, Bachtyar Ali, Mahmud Barzanji, Mawlawi, Mawlânâ Khâlid and Mustafa Zihni Pasha.
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Amna Suraka - Horror and Heartbreak of the Red Security Museum - Sulaymaniye Iraqi Kurdistan
A heartbreaking visit to the Anma Suraka Red Security Operations torture centre in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan.
This centre was designed by the then-East Germans with the purpose of detention, interrogation and torture of the local Kurds by Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath party regime.
It was operational from 1984 until it was finally liberated in 1991 during an uprising of Kurdish Peshmerga forces and civilians.
During the time of its operation, thousands of innocent men, women and children were held prisoner, tortured then taken to the infamous Abu Ghraib and other centres to be executed.
Exact numbers can't be confirmed as no records have been found.
It was a harrowing experience as we were guided around the facility through rooms where these brutal atrocities were committed.
The barbaric history of this facility is comparable to the Tuol Sleng genocide museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Amna Suraka is now a museum dedicated to highlighting the atrocities committed during this period.
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FORMER TORTURE CENTER SULAIMANIYAH
Amna Suraka Prison / Museum Sulaimani
Red Intelligence (Security) Prison (Museum). Erected 1979 to house the security and intelligence apparatus of the former Saddam Hussein's regime in order to subdue Iraqi Kurds. Liberated 1991 and later turned into a Museum. Director Ako Ghareb, artist (writer & painter). One of the most brutal prisons, interrogation & torture centers, and dungeon of contemporary Iraq. Located in a former Ba'ath intelligence headquarters and prison in Sulaimaniyah, provincial capital of SE Kurdistan Region Iraq. Red because of the red-like colour of the building. Symbol for Kurdistan Region Iraq's tortured past. Draws attention to brutal treatment of Iraqi Kurds in the past.
راپۆرتێكی تایبەتی كەناڵی جەزیرە لەسەر شوێنەوارەكانی ناو مۆزەخانەی سلێمانی
راپۆرتێكی كەناڵی ئەل عالم لەسەر مۆزەخانەی سلێمانی
Slêmanî museum in Kurdistan is paying smugglers to return looted treasure
(CNN) -- Iraq's second largest museum in Sulaimaniya is recovering stolen artifacts by paying smugglers to return the treasures.
Located in the semi-autonomous northern region of Kurdistan, the Slemani Museum has taken drastic measures to refill display cabinets following looting.
The position of not just UNESCO but the international museum community is that we don't buy back looted objects because it encourages looting. Simple. Full stop, says Stuart Gibson, director of the UNESCO Sulaimaniya Museum Project.
The Kurdish authorities took a very difficult and I must admit a very courageous position and they said we are going to buy these objects, he added.
Iraq has struggled with looters, most notably in 2003 when thieves sacked the National Museum in Baghdad stealing treasures dating thousands of years to the beginnings of civilization in Mesopotamia.
Original estimates said 170,000 pieces had been looted from the museum. However, authorities say it was closer to around 15,000 artifacts, of which 6,000 had been recovered by the time the museum reopened in 2009.
While paying smugglers for the return of lost treasures is a controversial move on the part of the museum, it seems to have worked in this instance. One of the recently-recovered artifacts is an ancient democratic text that smugglers asked just $600 for.
It's a full Sumerian text written during the old Babylonian period, around 1,800-900 B.C., says Dr. Farouk Al-Rawi, a professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
It is the first document to tell us about democracy. It concerns the establishment of two assemblies, he added.
The return of this tablet to the museum is ironic considering that thousands of years later, Iraq is still trying to establish a semblance of a democracy.
Despite the Slemani Museum's unorthodox move, smuggling has decreased in the region in part due to the growing awareness of the problem and a joint effort by authorities. But organizations say more help is needed to stop thieves.
The museum's director Hashim Abdulla says that in the region of Kurdistan there are still thousands of undiscovered sites yet to be excavated.
He points out a recent site in a small village 20 minutes outside of Sulaimaniya. Artifacts at this location have dated back to the Assyrian period, almost 3,000 years ago.
Under Kurdistan regional governmental laws the site should become a protected area but in reality in many cases those laws are too difficult to implement.
From Arwa Damon, CNN
December 13, 2011 -- Updated 1647 GMT (0047 HKT)
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Iraq: Kurdish museum hosts exhibition for IS victims in Saddam-era prison
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The Amna Suraka National Museum in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah has dedicated a space to war victims of the so-called Islamic State (IS; formerly ISIS/ISIL).
Named 'Museum for the Martyrs in the War against ISIS,' the section exhibits mannequins and photos of Kurdish Peshmerga and YPG (People's Protection Units), soldiers who died fighting IS in Iraq and Syria.
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Video tour of the prison- turned- museum Amna Suraka.
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Amna Suraka in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
Amna Suraka is one of Saddam Hussein’s “Houses of Horrors”. This is a complex where something bad happened, and you know it. In Kurdish the words “Amna Suraka” translates as “Red Security”. The main building is built of red and brown bricks hence the name. This building has a horrific history. But rather than knock it down and destroy the evidence of what remains, the Kurds saw the opportunity to keep it as it was, turn it into a museum and allow locals and visitors (few and far between) to see the horrors of the Ba ‘ath Party regime run by Saddam Hussein. It’s very cool that they have done that. Sometimes we need to see the horrors of the past to realise how lucky we are and ensure that the future of our children is a happy and hopeful one. We want peace, we don’t want war. Nobody does. Surely.
Visitors of the Amna Suraka today may explore the multi-story administrative building. It’s been left largely as it was the day of its capture by Peshmerga: structurally intact but gutted and studded with holes from warfare. The basement, lit with deep, dark red, contains haunting photographs from the chemical attack in Halabja. Among the images is Ramazan Öztürk’s iconic image Silent Witness. School children on class visits to the museum climb about the various disused tanks and helicopters which sit in the courtyard outside the administrative building.
The central building of the Museum of War Crimes opens with the Hall of Mirrors. What was once the offices and canteen of ranking members of the Ba’ath party is now a hall covered with 4,500 light bulbs representing villages destroyed during al-Anfal, and 182,000 shards of broken glass—for every person killed during the operation. The Hall of Mirrors also contains a replica of a traditional Kurdish home.
Following the Hall of Mirrors are corridors and floors containing the prison cells where prisoners were held, tortured, raped and executed. Some cells are shadowed and empty, with Kurdish Arabic words written or carved out by the people who inhabited the rooms or visitors who followed them. Local artist Kamaran Omar was commissioned to cast five life-size statues of prisoners hand-cuffed to walls, being beaten and hanging from electrical wires. The latter prisoner is accompanied by a recording of an interrogation. Echoing from within these barren, graffitied rooms surrounded with barbed wire, the effects of the recording are chilling. One cell contains a statue of Atta Ahmed Qadir, a Kurdish school-teacher lauded for his courage. Qadir was held in that very cell before his transfer to the Abu Ghraib prison, where he was executed in 1990.
The Amna Suraka shares features with Cambodia’s Tool Seng prison of the Khmer Rouge: both buildings were used not just to imprison and torture, but as weapons for genocide. Both are urban prisons, with residences very nearby. Both have been preserved by the nations of the forces which liberated them to be correctives of history. And both leave the traveler stricken for having walked the halls and rooms where humans caused so much suffering and where humans suffered so much.
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Sulaymaniyah Iraq City and Amna Suraka Prison
Salaymaniyah Irak Kurdistan and the Amna Suraka a bloody history is captured in this prison turned museum
Sulaymaniyah city at night iraq kurdistan 2019 مدينة السليمانية كردستان العراق ليلاً
Iraq | King of Kurdistan museum attracts folkloric heritage enthusiasts
Iraq | King of Kurdistan museum attracts folkloric heritage enthusiasts
Sheikh Mahmoud Al-Hafeed Museum in Dar Kali Village, Sulaymaniyah, attracts visitors and folkloric heritage enthusiasts, and those who are fond of Sheikh Hafeed’s history, who was a renowned leader, sheikh and politician in Iraq and the region. He was most acknowledged for his part in fighting the British occupation in Iraq at the time. He was later assigned as head of the local council and then as general commander in the Sulaymaniyah brigade, to be later named King of Kurdistan. The museum features what used to be Sheikh Hafeed’s holdings at the time.
العراق |متحف ملك كردستان يستقطب رواد التراث الفلكلوري
يستقطب متحف الشيخ محمود الحفيد في قرية دار كلي بمحافظة السليمانية الزوار ورواد التراث الفلكلوري ومحبي تاريخ الشيخ الحفيد الذي كان قائدا وشيخا وسياسيا معروفا على مستوى العراق والمنطقة، وذلك لدوره في محاربة الاحتلال البريطاني في العراق آنذاك، وعين فيما بعد رئيسا للمجلس المحلي ثم قائدا عاما في لواء السليمانية وبعدها لقب بـ ملك كردستان، ويضم المتحف الأغراض والأشياء التي كان يستعملها الشيخ الحفيد في ذلك الوقت.
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???? 360° GoPro Omni VR: Amna Suraka | Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan ☀️
A 360° GoPro VR Tour video of the Amna Suraka complex; formerly a place of detention, dolour and death for Kurds when in the hands of the Iraqi Ba'athist Party, Amna Suraka has now been transformed into a museum dedicated to the aforementioned atrocities. It has been described as 'the world's most depressing museum' due to the rawness and preservation of the so-called Red Security Prison - a must, sombre visit for visitors to Sulaymaniyah. ☀️
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Camera: GoPro Omni
Music: Private Reflections - Attitude
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How to view the 360° video:
Desktop using Google Chrome:
Use your mouse or trackpad to change your view while the video plays.
YouTube app on mobile:
Move your device around to look at all angles while the video plays
Google Cardboard:
Load the video in the YouTube app and tap on the cardboard icon when the video starts to play. Insert your phone in cardboard and enjoy.
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#gopro #slemani #kurdistan
Teashop in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan, Iraq
A tea vendor in the town of Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, Kurdistan Region.