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IRAQ / DISPLACED
STORY: IRAQ / DISPLACED
TRT: 1.59
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: KURDISH /NATS
DATELINE: 18 JUNE 2014, KHAZAIR CAMP, IRAQ
1. Various shots, food distribution from the pickup truck
2. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish), : Ali Shukur:
"This country is rich of its oil, but the people are still hungry. We all should have the luxury instead of this. 15 people will eat from this small dish now.”
3. Med shot, truck leaving
4. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish), Hazar Karam:
"I just came over to get food, and what they say is that it’s already gone; two big pots are emptied in few minutes. When will we have enough food?"
5. Med shot, man carrying mattresses
6. Med shot, woman standing in front of a tent
7. Med shot, man carrying mattresses into tent
8. Close up, old woman outside a tent
9. Pan left, man carrying boxes into the tent
10. Wide shot, row of tents
11. Pan left, family inside the tent
12. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish), Hussain Aziz Mohammed:
“All the people I know from Mosul ran away because it was not clear anymore who is good and who is bad in the streets. We have to stay here, whether it’s comfortable or not, too hot or not, with or without scorpions and snakes around us. We have no other choice. We can endure everything. Any help we receive, we appreciate.”
13. Various shots, arranging things inside the tent
14. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish), Fatima Mohammed:
“Nobody wants to leave their home, but we had no choice; we were afraid to be slaughtered. We left all belongings behind, but the most important is that we survived.”
15. Wide shot, people amongst tents
16. Med shot, man holding a baby
Population of the transit camp in Khazir in northern Iraq is growing every day. There were only a handful of tents here a week ago, today there are close to 300.
Most say they came here to escape clashes in the adjacent Ninewa governorate, where fighting has entered a second week.
The sheer number of new arrivals is challenging the capacity of the regional government, UN agencies and other humanitarian groups to cope with demands for food and shelter.
SOUNDBITE (Kurdish), Ali Shukur:
"This country is rich of its oil, but the people are still hungry. We all should have the luxury instead of this. 15 people will eat from this small dish now.”
The camp at the Khazair checkpoint, midway between the northern Iraqi cities Mosul and Erbil, shelters now close to 1500.
SOUNDBITE (Kurdish), Hazar Karam
"I just came over to get food, and what they say is that it’s already gone; two big pots are emptied in few minutes. When will we have enough food?"
49-year-old Hussain and his family of seven fled Mosul in just moments, and spent their first two nights in the desert under the open sky.
They say they were the last in their neighborhood to leave.
SOUNDBITE (Kurdish), Hussain Aziz Mohammed:
“All the people I know from Mosul ran away because it was not clear anymore who is good and who is bad in the streets. We have to stay here, whether it’s comfortable or not, too hot or not, with or without scorpions and snakes around us. We have no other choice. We can endure everything. Any help we receive, we appreciate.”
Each family receives mattresses and fans on their arrival at the site. But it's just meeting the most basic needs.
SOUNDBITE (Kurdish), Fatima:
“Nobody wants to leave their home, but we had no choice; we were afraid to be slaughtered. We left all belongings behind, but the most important is that we survived.”
For now, the checkpoint remains open for those fleeing conflict.
But with more than 200,000 Syrian refugees in Iraq already putting a burden on limited resources, this new influx of displaced is stretching the available support even more.
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