British Captives in Al-Shailan Khan in Holly Najaf during July 24th - October 21st 1920.

Hameed Abu-Shenna, Ad; Asa,

	British Captives in Al-Shailan Khan in Holly Najaf during July 24th - October 21st 1920.
Uruk journal for humanity science
Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 115-132
Authors
ad Hameed Abu-Shenna;
Abstract
The 1920th Revolution is one of the significant events in the contemporary history of Iraq. The revolution involved many important combats, the most outstanding of which was Al-Raranjia combat in July 24, 1920 in an area with the same name lying between Hilla and Kifil. The rebellions could achieve their victory and inflict human and material causalities on the British forces. The combat, therefore, had very important outcomes such as taking 167 British, Indian and Sikh soldiers prisoners who were transferred to Kifil, then to Kufa and then to Abu Sukhair. Due to the poor potentials of those towns as regards taking care of the prisoners, they were transferred to Najaf (centre of revolution leadership) according to the demand of the Higher Scientific Institution in order to intensify the process of taking care of them. When the prisoners arrived to Najaf, they were confined in a special building called “Al-Shaillan Khan” prison and an institution for the prisoners’ affairs had been created to supervise directly the management of “Al-Shaillan Khan”. Because of the big number of the prisoners, that institution faced difficult problems in satisfying their material needs and providing requirement for taking care of them. Al-Shaillan Khan acquired a big historical importance as the prisoners began writing their diaries and drawing pictures about different subjects and so, the “Khan” became one of the British occupation remains in Iraq. No one prevented the prisoners from writing their diaries or drawing pictures and no one erased these writings after they had left. Therefore, the period that those prisoners spent in the “Khan” has become an evident of the humane treatment they received in Najaf.
Keywords
Contemporary history of Iraq

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