Around Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, Summer 2007

Azadi Park

Throughout Sulaimaniya Governorate, Summer 2007

Dukan

Near Khalabag

View from Azmar mountain on the opposite side of Sulaimaniya

Khalabag, Iraq, 3 August 2007

Women in this village gather daily for half an hour between 5pm and 6pm to collect water for their family. The water pump was installed by the regional government.

Kalar, Iraq, 3 August 2007

Sarqalla, Iraq, 3 August 2007

Women picking okra.

Internally Displaced Persons within Iraq, Summer 2007

About 2 million people within Iraq have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the violence in the central and southern areas of the country. Some have no other option but to live in terrible conditions.

Torture Museum, Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, 15 July 2007

This building once was once where Saddam's forces tortured Kurds.


This hook, which hangs from the ceiling, was used as a torture tactic.






This hall commemorates the victims of Anfal. Each piece of glass on the wall, approximately 185,000, represents each person killed. Each light on the ceiling, between 4,000 and 5,000, represents each village destroyed.

LCHR's mother library, Sirwan, Kurdistan, Iraq, 18 July 2007

Children's reading room in the library.

Mother library in Sirwan, near Halabja.



Young man reading in one room of the library.

LCHR's mobile library project in Iraq, 18 July 2007

Mobile library visits Grde Go.

Mobile library visits Tapi Safai Xwaru.








Mobile library visits Tapi Safai Saru.

Press conference, Hotel Ashti, Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, 6 August 2007

Supporters for the release of Adnan Hassenpur and Hiwa Butimar, Iranian Kurdish journalists and civil society activists, speak at a press conference.

Halabja, Kurdistan, Iraq, 23 July 2007

Halabja Symbolic cemetary
This cemetary has 1,100 grave stones- one for each family who had at least one family member die in the chemical attacks in Halabja.
















Mass grave sites. Reportedly 200 people are buried in one and 1,000 in the other since there was not enough space to bury each individually.

Halabja Monument, Iraq, 23 July 2007

Halabja monument, burned in protest in March 2006 by 300 local protesters discontent with the government.
Part of the burned list of 5,000 names of the victims of the chemical attacks in Halabja.
The burned depiction of the city right after the attack.






















Burned pieces of metal outside of the monument, including chemical bomb casings. Approximately 200 bomb shells still exist around the city.