The Turkish state has launched a wave of air raids in southern Kurdistan, northern Iraq tonight. The strikes targeted several positions in the regions of Qandil, Maxmur and Shengal (Sinjar), including a refugee camp and hospital.
Category: Iraq
Maxmur Camp doctors struggle because of the embargo
The Iraqi state medical center in Maxmur is not enough to cope with all needs. In the event of serious health problems and even for routine checks for chronic illnesses, the population used to rely on hospitals in Hewlêr (Erbil), sixty kilometers away.
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Makhmur Camp: Struggle for dignity and identity
The embargo imposed on Makhmur Refugees Camp has been going on for ten months. Yet people repeat the same maxim they used to say: “We will not surrender to the policy of the enemy, no matter what may come.”
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A wound bleeding for 32 years: Halabja
On 16 March 1988, 32 years ago, 5,000 Kurds, mostly women and children, were killed when deadly gas was released on the northern Iraqi town of Halabja by Saddam Hussein’s forces.
Elimination of Violence Against Women: Dozens of women murdered or committed suicide in South Kurdistan
According to South Kurdistan Organisation for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, at least 35 women were murdered in the first 9 months of 2019. 57 women committed suicide and 207 others immolated themselves. A balance sheet for the entire year is not available yet.
HRW: Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Refugees’ Movements Restricted
Security forces for Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have arbitrarily imposed restrictions on movement for most residents of Makhmour refugee camp for Turkish Kurds since mid-July 2019, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Peace Mothers of Maxmur in sit-in
Martyr Rüstem Cudi (Maxmur) Refugee Camp has been under embargo for 62 days since the attack on a restaurant in Hewlêr targeting Turkish consulate employees.
Maxmur Refugee Camp under embargo for two months
On July 17, the South Kurdistan official of the Turkish secret service (MIT) was assassinated in a restaurant in the city of Hewler (Erbil). The security forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) then closed all ways in and out of the Maxmur Camp, which is now surrounded and under a strict embargo. While members of the democracy and freedom movement were arrested and tortured, the arrests were carried out by KDP security forces together with representatives of the Turkish intelligence service MIT.
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