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IRAQ / DISPLACED
STORY: IRAQ / DISPLACED
TRT: 3.14
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC /NATS
DATELINE: 5 AUGUST 2014, DUHOQ, NORTHERN IRAQ
1. Wide shot, Temple
2. Close up, child in window inside temple
3. Wide shot, people sitting in the garden of the temple
4. Close up, young boy sitting down
5. Wide shot, people standing
6. Close up, young man carrying his possessions in large sack
7. Wide shot, temple, people standing outside
8. Close up, two displaced men
9. Med shot, women standing
10. Various shots, children getting water from the temple’s well
11. Close up, two women talking
12. Various shots, displaced Iraqi from Sinjar, Abu Shaker, walking
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Shaker, Displaced Iraqi:
“Sinjar mountain has no water, no electricity no roads, no bread, not even a single tree, nothing in it, nothing for humans to eat there.”
14. Med shot, people listening to Abu Shaker
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Shaker, Displaced Iraqi:
“I received a call just now from a relative there, they are walking and leaving dead children behind.”
16. Med shot, Abu Shaker talking to other men
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Shaker, Displaced Iraqi:
“We want from the government, civil society, the United Nations, Americans, humanity, NGOs to just save these people from the danger zone. We don’t want anything; we don’t want cars, no money, no donations, no food. We want one of the two options, they get water and food to those trapped or get them out, otherwise it will be a disaster.”
18. Various shots, aid trucks parked on the road ahead of distribution
19. Wide shot, football field where aid is being distributed
20. Various shots, workers off loading aid from trucks
21. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Shaker, Displaced Iraqi:
“We took in people from Telafar and other areas, first we opened out homes and place to people from the south of Sinjar, they came to us and we took them in as our people, then now it’s us who is fleeing.”
22. Various shots, aid being distributed.
Another wave of displacement has hit Iraq, following the seizure of three northern communities from government control. Officials in Iraq’s Kurdistan region report that since Sunday, at least 45,000 people have crossed into the region with thousands more expected to arrive in the coming days.
The displaced people say they have been persecuted for being a minority in Iraq.
Since Sunday, tens of thousands of Iraqis from the Yezidi faith have fled their home city of Sinjar, after armed groups opposed to rule from Baghdad seized control.
They came to neighbouring cities like Duhok in Iraq’s Kurdistan region.
The temple that welcomes thousands of Yezidi pilgrims a year is now a temporary home to more than 500 displaced Iraqis.
Many have left relatives behind, trapped in the mountains outside Sinjar, unable to escape to safety, maybe as many as 30 thousand or more.
Abu Shaker has more than 60 family members stranded in that area.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Shaker, Displaced Iraqi:
“Sinjar mountain has no water, no electricity no roads, no bread, not even a single tree, nothing in it, nothing for humans to eat there.”
The Sinjar businessman pleaded for the international community to help.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Shaker, Displaced Iraqi:
“We want from the government, civil society, the United Nations, Americans, humanity, NGOs to just save these people from the danger zone. We don’t want anything,; we don’t want cars, no money, no donations, no food. We want one of the two options, they get water and food to those trapped or get them out, otherwise it will be a disaster.”
At least 45,000 Iraqis, many of them Yezidis have crossed from Sinjar into Iraq’s Kurdistan region since Sunday, according to government officials.
Many more are expected in coming days.
UNHCR and partner aid agencies are responding to this latest displacement.
Naif, a father of five, just days ago, he wouldn’t have imagined himself being here today.
Back in Sinjar he was the one hosting displaced families from other conflict areas in Iraq. .
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Naif, Displaced Iraqi:
“We took in people from Telafar and other areas, first we opened out homes and place to people from the south of Sinjar, they came to us and we took them in as our people, then now it’s us who is fleeing.”
The United Nations has warned of a ‘humanitarian tragedy’ as a result of the conflict around Sinjar.
The UN called on all sides to ensure humanitarian access to those who need it the most, while aid is getting to some of those in need, others, in inaccessible places like the Sinjar mountains, are currently going without.
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