Letter from Kurdistan-2 “Look how my family is living”

“Look how my family is living”

These pictures were sent to me on Wednesday evening. They were taken in Zakho, Iraq. The town, which is in the Kurdistan region, is at the border with Turkey and it is currently hosting several Yazidi families who escaped from ISIS in the Sinjar area. Thousands of them just want to leave Iraq for good. “We don’t have any future here. We are not muslim and we will always be harassed” said Fahrani over the phone from an IDP camp.

Right now Kurdistan is hosting about 800.000 refugees. Some of them are living on the streets, unable to leave the country. “We need help,” wrote Fahran, a Yazidi currently in the United States. The main concern is about winter. “It is going to be cold and they do not have food or a proper shelter.” The Yazidi struggle is far from over.