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Kwashi factories and refineries in Dohuk pollute the air and
A.M. (42 years old), who lives in the Bastaki residential complex north of Dohuk in the Kurdistan Region, is forced to close the windows of her house and the air cooler every evening, when primitive oil refineries operating nearby release their pollutants and fumes into the sky, carrying unpleasant odors. “It is unbearable,” the woman said angrily, pointing to the Kwashi industrial area. “We have been in this situation for years. it threatening us, but no one can stop it.” Environmental activist Idris Asahi (50 years old) warns of what he describes as “major environmental and health risks” created by…
“Dead Land”: Nine Years on the Yazidi Genocide and the
Yazidis Scattered Between Missing, Displaced, and Migrants Searching for a Homeland Beside a small tent set up on the ruins of his destroyed mud house in the al-Qahtaniyah district, south of Sinjar (125 km northwest of Mosul), 72-year-old Khalaf sits for hours every day, gazing at the scattered remnants of houses and at the abandoned farmlands. Nothing suggests the presence of life there. Nine years have passed since the Yazidis suffered mass killings at the hands of ISIS militants in Sinjar on August 3, 2014. However, scenes of destruction persist in the city centre and the scattered villages around it,…