Children of Iraq


  • Photographer
    Sebastian Castañeda
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention

State Islamic jihadists (EI), the August 3 attack Sinjar and other towns in the province of Nineveh (northern Iraq), where many members of the Kurdish minority living. With the advance of the jihadists, thousands of Yazidis took refuge in the Sinjar mountains This makeshift shelter was besieged for more than ten days jihadists, without food or water under the harsh summer sun. Many families finally got down the mountain and reach the autonomous region of Kurdistan. Thanks to the humanitarian corridor that was created in Syria, this is achieved by air strikes against US forces Islamic State The inhabitants of these communities were forcibly displaced, many of them took refuge in the official camp UNHCR (UN) in Fishkabour, near the border with Syria living in terrible conditions, where in addition to cope with high temperatures which can reach 50 degrees Celsius, the lack of water and food. Other refugees have occupied abandoned in Erbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdish region buildings.

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