(9 Jul 2024)
IRAQ IDP CAMP
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sulaymaniyah, Iraq – 9 July 2024
1. Various of trucks and vehicles loaded with belongings of displaced people in Ashti camp
2. Displaced people completing paperwork
3. Various of trucks parked as people get ready to leave
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Karim Shaii, man displaced from Tikrit in Salahaddin:
"After 10 years of displacement, I have seen suffering along with my family, and our houses were destroyed because of terrorism. Thank God for everything. They have given us four million dinars (about $3,000) and home appliances, a cooker, TV, and a fridge, thankfully. The people and officials in Kurdistan treated us very well."
5. Walk-by shot of trucks
6. Displaced women waiting to leave the camp
7. Pan of evacuated units in the camp
8. Various of empty units in the camp
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aliya Alwan, displaced from Tikrit in Salahaddin:
"It has been 10 years of suffering, living in the cold under tents made of plastic and dealing with injustice. Had we had the means, we wouldn’t have stayed in tents, and this wouldn’t have happened to us. So we call on (Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia) al-Sudani and the government ministers to help us as the four million dinars won’t do much. Now, we are returning to our area and want them to help us because the four million dinars won’t build a single room made from (concrete) blocks."
10. Gate to Ashti camp
11. Various of trucks parked as people get ready to leave
12. People next to camp’s administration office
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Samer Mashkour, director of office for displaced people in the Kurdish region:
"The Ministry of Migration and Displacement played an active role in closing the camps in Sulaymaniyah province. After closing Tazede camp, today we are in Ashti camp which used to house around 1,900 families. And today, the last 60 families are leaving the camp on July 9, 2024."
14. Empty units in the camp
15. Trucks with people’s belongings
16. Abandoned Ashti camp in Sulaymaniyah
STORYLINE:
The last group of displaced Iraqi families left Ashti camp in Sulaymaniyah on Tuesday after years spent away from home as Iraq plans to close all displacement camps by the end of July.
Displaced families loaded their belongings onto trucks in the camp, which is located in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
Sixty families left the camp on Tuesday and headed to their home areas in the provinces of Salahaddin and Nineveh.
Most of those families have been living in the camp since 2014, when the Islamic State group rampaged across the country’s northern areas.
"After 10 years of displacement, I have seen suffering along with my family, and our houses were destroyed because of terrorism," said Karim Shaii, a displaced man who was preparing to leave the camp.
Those who left the camp on Tuesday were mostly Sunni Arabs from the cities of Tikrit and Mosul.
They escaped the violence and were hesitant to return home even after their areas were retaken from IS by Iraqi security forces and Iran-backed Shiite paramilitary groups.
Sulaymaniyah province had four major camps for the displaced people, located in Kifri, Kalar, Arbat, and the city of Sulaymaniyah.
The camps used to host 2,450 displaced families, mostly Sunni Arabs from Tikrit, Diyala, Babil, and Mosul, along with 110 Yazidi families from Sinjar.
But many of those returning say that isn’t enough as their homes were destroyed, while others feel that it may not be safe to return.
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