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Documents about the murder of Rashid's daughter
Documents include: letter of consent between Muhammad Rashid, son of Lutf Allah, and Ahmad, son of Muhammad ʻAli. Muhammad Rashid asserts her daughter's murder by Ahmad was unintentional (October 13, 1921); a request to drop Ahmad Khan's charge of murder of Rashid's daughter and instead charging ʻAli Muhammad (chief of village) as the murderer; a report [by the overseer of Miraki village] about the murder of Rashid's daughter by Ahmad and his escape, according to which Aqa Jan, Ahmad's brother, attempted to persuade him to kill Rashid's daughter, after which Aqa Jan gained Rashid's consent...
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Petition of Halimah and her daughter, Jamilah, 1905
A petition by Halimah Khanum, the wife of ʻAli Khan Vali (the procurement officer in Kirkuk), and her daughter, Jamilah, in which they ask the government of Iran to help them after her husband was killed and their proprty ransacked. The other document is a copy of a reply from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs written by Nasr Allah Mushir al-Dawlah, in which he tells them that the Shah is unable to respond as he is away on a trip and will be notified once he is back. He also informs them that he will send them whatever he can by way of the procurement officer of Kurdistan.
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Raʻna Khanum's death
The writer complains about the death of Raʻna Khanum and mentions that Gulbaghi people have raped women.
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Regarding Gulabatun's theft, 1903
Correspondence between the Government of Kurdistan (Nasir al-Mulk) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding a claim by Ottoman officials about delinquency in the investigation of theft by Gulabatun, the servant of Aqa Yahya (an Ottoman national); the Government of Kurdistan rejects any negligence and reports that they have investigated Gulabatun's claim on giving the stolen property to a soldier named ‘Abd al-Hamid, who has denied the allegations in the interrogation. Meanwhile, Gulabatun is still living in Aqa Yahya's house.
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Request of Bahadur al-Saltanah's wife, 1922 or 1923
Documents include the following: letter from the Ministry of Finance to the Majlis, stating that Bahadur al-Saltanah's salary was cut because of his theft from the customhouse of Saqqiz and requesting that the Prime Minister accept the request of Bahadur al-Saltanah's wife and add her name to the list of stipendiaries if he accepts the request; letter from Bahadur al-Saltanah's wife, in which she writes that due to her husband's salary being cut off, she and her two sons, who are five and nine years old, are having financial difficulties because payments of stipend that they were supposed...
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Regarding the family of Muhammad Amin, 1903
Correspondence between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Government of Kurdistan about the complaint by the Ottoman Embassy regarding the government's negligence of the Ottoman nationals, especially the case of a robbery from the family of Muhammad Amin from Penjven in Sulaymaniyah, including Khatun, Khurramtiyan, Mustafa, and ‘Abd al-Qadir
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Shaykh Muhammad Hasan's petition, 1915
Petition by Shaykh Muhammad Hasan, the representative from Garus, to the Majlis regarding the plunders and crimes committed by Salar al-Dawlah and others during the Majlis closure. The writer describes how Mirza, son of Bahram Khalifah from Gulbagh, attacked the village of Chishmah Kazim and put his father's building on fire, where people, including women, had taken shelter, and raped the women. While Mirza was arrested and taken to a Kurdistan court by Sardar Muhay, he was not punished and continues his crimes.
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Petitions submitted to Saʻid al-Sultan
Petitions submitted to Saʻid al-Sultan: one from Maymunabad villagers objecting to Bihjat Khanum's way of dividing donkeys--Bihjat Khanum is the wife of Saʻid al-Sultan; one by Ziba Vaziri, a relative of Asif Aʻzam, requesting payment of the revenue of half of Amirabad [village] following Rustam Khan (her husband)'s death and asking for ʻAli Muhammad Bayg's help— ʻAli Muhammad Bayg is Ziba Vaziri's overseer and Ziba Khanum claims that she inherited half of the village from her late husband, but in this petition she is merely asking for revenue and not for the half of the village itself;...
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Regarding Fatimah Khanum's complaint, 1903-1904
Including 1- Fatimah Khanum’s petition regarding the killing of her husband, ‘Alikhan, who was an Iranian government official, and the theft of his belongings. Fatimah Khanum is at a loss to provide for her children and requests a pension; 2- The petition’s envelope with a note on the margin addressed to Atabak A‘zam; 3- A letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Dabir Hazrat, the government official in Sulaymaniyah, advising him to inform Fatimah Khanum that she or her attorney should visit Kirkuk and file a claim so that the Iranian government could inquire to the Ottoman government...
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Correspondence regarding the murder of Hakim Haq Nazar, 1899
Including 1- a petition by Rahil to Mushir al-Dawlah, regarding the murder of her husband, Haq Nazar, a Jewish doctor in Kurdistan. She claims the murderers were hired by Ishaq, another Jewish doctor; 2- a telegraph from Muhammad Yusuf from Kurdistan to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran, regarding the murder of Haq Nazar by Fattah, son of ‘Abd al-Rahman, Ma‘ruf, and another person -- all Ottoman nationals. The murderers are in jail but ‘Abd al-Rahman is conducting a sit-in at Hajar Khatun Imamzadah and the house of Shaykh Shukr Allah. The writer requests accountability from the...
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