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IRAQ / YAZIDIS
STORY: IRAQ / YAZIDIS
TRT: 3.14
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: KURDISH /ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 1 DECEMBER 2014, ZAHKHO, NORTHERN IRAQ
1 DECEMBER 2014, ZAHKHO, NORTHERN IRAQ
1. Wide shot, Goze in her shelter
2. Close up, Goze being handed baby
3. Wide shot, Goze holding baby
4. Wide shot, dark stairwell
5. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Goze, Syrian refugee:
“They asked us to move to the upper floors until they constructed walls and then we could move back and stay in the room. We came to the 6th floor. After two days here, my daughter fell from the stairs. We took her to the hospital, but she died a day later.”
6. Med shot, small wall at stairwell
7. Wide shot, inner yard
8. Med shot, man sitting on open balcony
9. Close up, kids in open wall of building
10. Med shot, kid with mattress
11. Med shot, girls carrying out carpet
12. Med shot, man packing the back of truck
13. Wide shot, men tying down the back of a truck
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Liene Veide, Public Information Officer, UNHCR:
“We are planning on doing distribution of different items including insulation kits for the tents and quilts and blankets and mattresses. But we have also heard from people that they need lots of clothes, warm clothes, because they only have what they are wearing, because that is all they managed to take with them.”
15. Wide shot, moving day
16. Med shot, Majida with baby
17. SOUND UP of Majida
18. Med shot, truck moving
19. Med shot, interior, Majida sweeping the tent
20. Med shot, girls moving mattresses
21. Med shot, Majida carrying cradle
22. Med shot, Majida tent bringing in cradle
23. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Majida Saeeda, Syrian refugee:
“We are no longer displaced. We can take care of ourselves and rebuild our life again. God will also help us, and of course you too.”
24. Close up, Goze holding her baby
25. Close up, baby in arms
26. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Goze, Syrian Refugee:
“My kids cried a lot. They said we became displaced and now we have lost our sister too. They are very touched by her death.
27. Close up, baby in cradle
28. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Goze, Syrian Refugee:
“I don’t want to stay in this building. I’d like to be given a better place than this one we live in.”
27. Wide Shot, UNHCR camp in wind and rain
28. Wide shot, unpacking the truck in bad weather
29. Med shot, tent in rain
In the past year, an estimated 1.9 million people have been displaced inside Iraq, tens of thousans have been forced to flee renewed fighting in Syria. Many of them are Yazidis, who were forced to flee their homes in Sinjar province by ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
In northern Iraq, they have sought refuge in makeshift shelters, such as schools and unfinished structures.
In Dabin City in Zakho, 7000 people have sought refuge in unfinished buildings. The buildings present their own challenges and danger to the people who are living there. To help find the displaced a safer environment, UNHCR opened Bersive 2 camp. It is starting by moving people from the schools they are living in now, to better-serviced tents.
Goze Qasim is a mother of ten and internally displaced. The Yazidi mother managed to shepherd everyone in her family to safety in Northern Iraq. And then, here, tragedy. Her six-year old daughter fell to her death.
SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Goze, Syrian refugee:
“They asked us to move to the upper floors until they constructed walls and then we could move back and stay in the room. We came to the 6th floor. After two days here, my daughter fell from the stairs. We took her to the hospital, but she died a day later.”
There is now a small wall where Ameena fell. Other residents built it.
The arrival of thousands of displaced, in just days, meant that people had to live in buildings like this one –unfinished- and at times unsafe.
There are better places being built. Down the road, it’s moving day. UNHCR has just opened Bersive 2, a camp for 1820 families.
New shelter for thousands but much more is needed.
SOUNDBITE (English) Liene Veide, Public Information Officer, UNHCR:
“We are planning on doing distribution of different items including insulation kits for the tents and quilts and blankets and mattresses. But we have also heard from people that they need lots of clothes, warm clothes, because they only have what they are wearing, because that is all they managed to take with them.”
The new camp means more displacement for many. Yazidis like Majida and her family found shelter in the local school but now must move. Otherwise the school year can’t start.
A truck unloads the family’s few belongings at the camp. Her children examine their new home. Everyone helps unload. The weather is worsening.
Winter approaches fast. To help fight it, UNHCR has begun airlifts to the region. The plan is to deliver 25,000 insulation kits.
Majida’s move was quick. Her tent in the new camp offers the promise of stability.
SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Majida Saeeda, Syrian refugee:
“We are no longer displaced. We can take care of ourselves and rebuild our life again. God will also help us, and of course you too.”
But for Goze, still in Dabin City but due to be moved to the camp in the coming days, the pain will remain….her children remember their little sister and now live with loss.
SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Goze, Syrian Refugee:
“My kids cried a lot. They said we became displaced and now we have lost our sister too. They are very touched by her death.
SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Goze, Syrian Refugee:
“I don’t want to stay in this building. I’d like to be given a better place than this one we live in.”
For many Yazidis, Bersive 2 is the hope of a better place and the move is a rush to beat the wind and rain. The weather will be with them for months to come. The camp will likely be their home for longer.
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