Speech of Patriotic Arab Democratic Movement in Ahwaz (PADMAZ) in the 11th UN Forum on Minorities, on 29-30 November 2018 Today I am going to mention a number of events happened in Ahwaz darning 2019. Shortage of time prevents me from explaining them in detail: In 2018 more than 5 major uprising and 900 demonstrations against the regime happened in Ahwaz, the number of arrest exceeded 5000, more than 100 people were executed. 1- The Iranian authorities arrested the cultural activists including singers, poets, and journalists. For example: three members (Hassan Sobheipoor, Hassan Eshghian, Bagher Khasraji) of Al-Nasr organisation, NGO, were arrested just because of a producing and singing a traditional song. Also a number of Ahwazi poet were arrested including Shahab Sayahi and Hassan Heidari who passed away on 10th Novermer in a mysterious situation. As a consequence of his death a mass protest held in different Ahwazi cities. People accused the Iranian regime of his death. His family were arrested and were forced to provide fake statements. 2- The Ahwazi joined other nations in Iran in the recent uprising as a result of which more than 70 Ahwazi were killed, hundreds were wounded, and thousands were arrested by the Iranian authorities. 3- In 2019 the unrest situation continued, however the authorities tried to suppress the Ahwazi people by contrived floods as a result of which more than 1,500,000 were displace and hundreds of villages were destroyed. The Iranian authorise is fully willing to displace the Ahwazi population by opening floodgates in the dams constructed upstream and flooding the whole area to safeguard the oil and gas facilities, and it is callously using the flooding as a pretext for the large-scale ethnic cleansing of the Ahwazi population. The devastated Ahwazi Arab were treated with racism and www.padmaz.org Email 1: info@padmaz.org Email 2: padmaz.org@gmail.com Tell: +447446860715 Page 2