5208 x 3443 px | 44,1 x 29,2 cm | 17,4 x 11,5 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
1993
Lieu:
Iraq Kurdistan, Qosh Tapa,
Informations supplémentaires:
The Barzani Widows: The Iraqi army raided the homeland of the Barzani people in Iraq Kurdistan in 1983. They rounded up 8, 000 men and boys over the age of twelve. Army-deserters say the Barzani men were taken to the desert in Southern Iraq where they were executed and bulldozed into mass graves. Two months after the men were taken from Qosh Tapa, Iraqi troops returned to the town to take the women. They were loaded into trucks and taken to the border with Iran, unloaded and told to leave Iraq. The women made their way back over the next few months in secret, hiding in villages along the way. Again in 1991 the women in Qosh Tapa were again forced to flee their homes. Along with 1.5 million Kurds they joined the exodus to the mountains of turkey and Iran following the failure of the Kurdish uprising against Saddam Hussein. Throughout Kurdistan the women are known as the Barzani widows. It is only those living within the walls of Qosh Tapa who believe that there is still a chance that the men who were taken in the summer 1983 are alive. It would be difficult to exaggerate the scale of brutality including the use of chemical weapons against the Kurdish people in Northern Iraq. 182, 000 people are missing and presumed dead since the Anfal.
