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Stranded Lives: Laylan IDP Camp, Kirkuk
Hawre Khalid

Stranded Lives: Laylan IDP Camp, Kirkuk

By a cluster of tents teenagers gather to watch Marwan carefully razor marine cuts in his make shift barber shop. No teenager here wants to be mistaken for a ‘Daesh’ member. Not far away Adem’s children are playing with stones as he looks on worriedly, he is Sudanese and name calling because of their black skin is common. Adem came to Iraq to avoid civil war and poverty; but didn’t expect his adopted home town of Tikrit to be overrun by ISIS. Across the camp in Sulaiman’s tent the mood is sombre. Hazar lays out the ID cards that belonged to his dead children. They were killed by aerial bombardment. "We put a white flag on our convoy of cars to show we are civilians" he says, dejectedly. They were also denied entry to relatively safe Kurdistan, as Sunni Arabs the Kurds view them as possible ISIS infiltrators. © Cathy Otten This project is part of "A Map of Displacement", Metrography first collective effort to map the displacement inside Iraqi Kurdistan

Photos
18
Status
Public
Created
May 04, 2015
Updated
Feb 09, 2022
Categories
Documentary
Tags
#Laylan #Kirkuk #Idp #Iraq #Kurdistan #Displacement #Camp #Refugee #War #Crisis

Photos (18)

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22/01/2015 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A view of Laylan IDP camp at night. Laylan camp is 20 KM south of Kirkuk. UNHCR and the municipality of Kirkuk built the camp with around 1500 tents. Around 8450 people live in the camp.
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11/01/2015 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A young displaced person tries to fix the electricity in the Laylan IDP camp, south of Kirkuk.
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27/01/2015 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Ali Ahmad, Noor Zuher, and Layla Mahmud sit inside the tent. They lost 9 members of the family during the war mainly because of Iraqi air strikes, and Sheae militia's executions.
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15/01/2015 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Mahmud Hazbar was wounded by Iraqi planes' bombing when he was with his family on the way to Qratapa, after leaving their village. At the same time he lost three brothers and one sister.
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11/01/2015 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A woman tries to hang a mattress to dry in a sunny day at Laylan IDP camp south of Kirkuk.
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17/01/2015 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Noor and her friend play in the camp. Noor Zuher is 11 years old, from Sador village in Diyala. On September 20th war planes started bombing people escaping their villages in the province of Diyala, on the way to Qaratapa: Noor lost her mother and 2 brothers, and on the same day the Shiea militia took her father. She now lives with her grandfather in the Laylan IDP ca
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22/01/2015 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- The barber's tent at the Laylan IDP camp, south of Kirkuk.
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22/01/2015 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A chief of a fast food restaurant prepares a salad at Laylan IDP camp, south of Kirkuk.
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22/01/2015 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- An Iraqi boy with the Barcelona football club's t-shirt walks among tents and plastic sheets in the Laylan IDP cam in south of Kirkuk.
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17/01/2015 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Suleiman Muhammad and the son of his daughter walk in front of their tent at Laylan IDP camp, south of Kirkuk.
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20/01/2015 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Omer helps his father when he distributes kerosene to IDP's at Laylan IDP camp, south of Kirkuk. His father is originally from Sudan but has came to Iraq as a refugee 14 years ago. On September 12th, when the Iraqi army started air strikes over the province, they left and sought refugee in Kirkuk.
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20/01/2015 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A portrait of Adam and his youngest daughter Asma 2 Y.O. inside the tent at Laylan IDP camp, south of Kirkuk. Adam Abubakir 60 Y.o. from Salahadin distributes kerosene to other displaced people at Laylan IDP camp south of Kirkuk. Adam Abubakir is originally from Sudan. He came to Iraq 14 years ago as a refugee. In Iraq he married Awatif from Basra. Together they have
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22/01/2015 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A family hang up the Iraqi flag and the name of prophet Muhammad inside the tent for the birthday of the prophet Muhammad - Laylan IDP camp, South of Kirkuk.
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22/01/2015 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A young Iraqi boy, inside a tea shop in the IDP camp of Laylan, south of Kirkuk.
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20/01/2015 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Omer plays football with his friends in Laylan IDP camp, south of Kirkuk.
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22/01/2015 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- A portrait of Qasim Sleman 66 Y.O. in front of his tent in Laylan IDP camp, South of Kirkuk. Qasim is from Falujah.
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22/01/2015 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Three young displaced Iraqi kids bring a TV they have just purchased to their tent in Laylan camp, south of Kirkuk.
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27/01/2015 -- Kirkuk, Iraq -- Abdullah Hazbar from outside his tent. Abdullah was wounded by Iraqi war planes' bombing when he left his village with his family.
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