Kani Balavi[nb 1] (Arabic: كاني بلافي[4] or كاني بلاف,[5] Kurdish: کانی به‌لاڤ,[6] Syriac: ܟܢܝ ܒܠܦ̮)[5] is a village in Duhok Governorate in Kurdistan Region, Iraq.

[8] After the Assyrian genocide in the First World War, Assyrian refugees from Ashitha in Turkey settled at Kani Balavi, and the village had a population of 110 people by 1933,[7] in which year it was looted and burned by the Iraqi army during the Simele massacre.

[10] Kani Balavi was destroyed by the Iraqi army, and its population forcibly expelled, during the Al-Anfal campaign in 1988.

[11] By 2011, the Supreme Committee of Christian Affairs had constructed 39 houses, a church, and community hall, and developed the village's infrastructure.

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