[2] Mandali district was inhabited by a majority of the Feyli Kurds, who were subjected to a large-scale campaign of displacement, were deprived from their Iraqi citizenship and properties by the Baathist regime in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The Feyli Kurds were also subjected to deportation, displacement, arrest, and murder during the rule of former President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr in 1970 and 1975, and, Saddam Hussein's regime in 1980.

In 2010, the Supreme Criminal Court issued its verdict regarding the crimes of displacement, disappearance, and seizure of the rights of the Feyli Kurds, deeming them to be acts of genocide.

On December 8 of the same year, the Iraqi government issued a decision committing to removing the negative effects of targeting the Feyli Kurds, followed by a decision from the Parliament on August 1, 2010, which declared the forced displacement and disappearance of the Feyli Kurds as a crime of genocide.

This triggered protests from Sunni and Shia Arab tribes from the area, who criticized that Ibrahim, who worked as a lawyer in Baghdad, wasn't established in the community of the city.