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A Kurdish woman grieves as she waits to have her mother's
body washed and prepared for burial in accordance with Muslim tradition. Cukurça refugee camp. Photo by: Cheryl Hatch www.isisphotos.com |
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A Kurdish fieldworker in Syria, 1991.
Photo by: Ed Kashi www.edkashi.com |
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A barbed wire fence serves as a makeshift clothesline near
Cukurça refugee camp on the Turkey-Iraq border. Hundreds of thousands of refugees camped in the mountains during the Gulf War.
Photo by: Cheryl Hatch www.isisphotos.com |
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A sheep herder in Iran.
Photo by: Ed Kashi www.edkashi.com |
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Shaho lost both his legs in Halabja, the Kurdish village where in March 1988 Saddam Hussein's army used chemical weapons to kill over 5000 civilians.
Today, learning how to use the computer and training for a marathon in his new country of settlement, he is an example of courage and determination for all of his fellow refugees.
Photo by: Carmelo Iaria |
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Mother holding a picture of loved one lost. From the town of Suleimania, Northern Iraq 1992.
Photo by: Susan Meiselas / Magnum www.magnumphotos.com www.akaKurdistan.com |
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Her village destroyed, Kurdish teenager lives at Seyyid
Sadiq camp near the Iranian border.
Photo by: Cheryl Hatch www.isisphotos.com |
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A Kurdish woman on trial for treason in the then military courts of
Diyarbakir (Amed), Turkey 1991.
Photo by: Ed Kashi www.edkashi.com |
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Volunteer washes the body of a nine-year-old boy who died
in the Cukurça refugee camp. According to Muslim tradition, the dead must be washed and buried before the next sunset.
Photo by: Cheryl Hatch www.isisphotos.com |
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A line of women dancing during a wedding in Kawla near
the city of Sena in eastern Kurdistan (ruled by Iran).
Photo courtesy of: Soraya Serajeddini |