• The Kurds
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    The Kurds
    Lives hang in the balance in what is left of Qala Diza. The Iraqi army destroyed this city of over 100,000 residents in the 1980's but after the Gulf War in 1991, it's Kurdish residents were able to return and start to rebuild their lives and homes. Iraq 1991

    The Iraqi government has imposed a strict blockade of food and fuel to the region known as Free Kurdistan, where families struggle to rebuild amid the wreckage.
    © Ed Kashi / VII
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    The Kurds
    Lives hang in the balance in what is left of Qala Diza. The Iraqi army destroyed this city of over 100,000 residents in the 1980's but after the Gulf War in 1991, it's Kurdish residents were able to return and start to rebuild their lives and homes. Iraq 1991

    The Iraqi government has imposed a strict blockade of food and fuel to the region known as Free Kurdistan, where families struggle to rebuild amid the wreckage.
    © Ed Kashi / VII

     

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    Chute d'un Dieu souverain
    Derrière des maisons endommagées par le feu, une fillette près de soldats de l’armée royale. Une foule anti-maoïste a incendié des centaines d’habitations dans le village de Halanagar, accusant les habitants d’avoir hébergé des rebelles.
    © Tomas Van Hourtryve / VII Mentor
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    Chute d'un Dieu souverain
    Derrière des maisons endommagées par le feu, une fillette près de soldats de l’armée royale. Une foule anti-maoïste a incendié des centaines d’habitations dans le village de Halanagar, accusant les habitants d’avoir hébergé des rebelles.
    © Tomas Van Hourtryve / VII Mentor
    18MB Original RAW (CRW) file from Canon 10D camera

     

  • The Kurds
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    The Kurds
    Lives hang in the balance in what is left of Qala Diza. The Iraqi army destroyed this city of over 100,000 residents in the 1980's but after the Gulf War in 1991, it's Kurdish residents were able to return and start to rebuild their lives and homes. Iraq 1991

    The Iraqi government has imposed a strict blockade of food and fuel to the region known as Free Kurdistan, where families struggle to rebuild amid the wreckage.
    © Ed Kashi / VII
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    The Kurds
    Lives hang in the balance in what is left of Qala Diza. The Iraqi army destroyed this city of over 100,000 residents in the 1980's but after the Gulf War in 1991, it's Kurdish residents were able to return and start to rebuild their lives and homes. Iraq 1991

    The Iraqi government has imposed a strict blockade of food and fuel to the region known as Free Kurdistan, where families struggle to rebuild amid the wreckage.
    © Ed Kashi / VII

     

  • The Kurds
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    The Kurds
    Lives hang in the balance in what is left of Qala Diza. The Iraqi army destroyed this city of over 100,000 residents in the 1980's but after the Gulf War in 1991, it's Kurdish residents were able to return and start to rebuild their lives and homes. Iraq 1991

    The Iraqi government has imposed a strict blockade of food and fuel to the region known as Free Kurdistan, where families struggle to rebuild amid the wreckage.
    © Ed Kashi / VII
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    The Kurds
    Lives hang in the balance in what is left of Qala Diza. The Iraqi army destroyed this city of over 100,000 residents in the 1980's but after the Gulf War in 1991, it's Kurdish residents were able to return and start to rebuild their lives and homes. Iraq 1991

    The Iraqi government has imposed a strict blockade of food and fuel to the region known as Free Kurdistan, where families struggle to rebuild amid the wreckage.
    © Ed Kashi / VII

     

  • The Kurds
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    The Kurds
    The stuggle of the Kurds, who constitute one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without a country of its own.
    A 54 year old woman wears the scars of Halabja, an Iraqi town that was annihilated by poison gas in 1988. Twenty-five of her relatives died in that attack, and now her daughter attends to wounds that continue to burn three years later. July 1991
    © Ed Kashi / VII
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    The Kurds
    The stuggle of the Kurds, who constitute one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without a country of its own.
    A 54 year old woman wears the scars of Halabja, an Iraqi town that was annihilated by poison gas in 1988. Twenty-five of her relatives died in that attack, and now her daughter attends to wounds that continue to burn three years later. July 1991
    © Ed Kashi / VII

     

  • The Kurds
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    The Kurds
    The stuggle of the Kurds, who constitute one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without a country of its own.
    Kurds work to rebuild the village of Baroshki under the direction of the Kurdistan Reconstruction Organization. This village was destroyed 3 times in 20 years by the Iraqi military.
    © Ed Kashi / VII
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    The Kurds
    The stuggle of the Kurds, who constitute one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without a country of its own.
    Kurds work to rebuild the village of Baroshki under the direction of the Kurdistan Reconstruction Organization. This village was destroyed 3 times in 20 years by the Iraqi military.
    © Ed Kashi / VII

     

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    The Kurds
    Kurdish women in typically colorful dresses fill their water jugs in the stream near Qualat Dizah, Iraq on Juy 10, 1991. The Iraqi army destroyed this city of over 100,000 residents in the 1980's but after the Gulf War in 1991, its Kurdish residents were able to return and start to rebuild their lives and homes.
    © Ed Kashi / VII
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    The Kurds
    Kurdish women in typically colorful dresses fill their water jugs in the stream near Qualat Dizah, Iraq on Juy 10, 1991. The Iraqi army destroyed this city of over 100,000 residents in the 1980's but after the Gulf War in 1991, its Kurdish residents were able to return and start to rebuild their lives and homes.
    © Ed Kashi / VII

     

  • The Kurds
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    The Kurds
    The stuggle of the Kurds, who constitute one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without a country of its own.
    Children play in the ruins of Qala Diza. The Iraqi army destroyed this city of over 100,000 residents in the 1980's but after the Gulf War in 1991, its Kurdish residents were able to return and start to rebuild their lives and homes.

    The Iraqi government has imposed a strict blockade of food and fuel to the region known as Free Kurdistan, where families struggle to rebuild amid the wreckage.


    © Ed Kashi / VII
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    The Kurds
    The stuggle of the Kurds, who constitute one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without a country of its own.
    Children play in the ruins of Qala Diza. The Iraqi army destroyed this city of over 100,000 residents in the 1980's but after the Gulf War in 1991, its Kurdish residents were able to return and start to rebuild their lives and homes.

    The Iraqi government has imposed a strict blockade of food and fuel to the region known as Free Kurdistan, where families struggle to rebuild amid the wreckage.


    © Ed Kashi / VII

     

  • The Kurds
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    The Kurds
    A woman stands in font of the ruins of her home in Qalat Dizah, Iraq on July 10, 1991. The Iraqi army destroyed this city of over 100,000 residents in the 1980's but after the Gulf War in 1991, its Kurdish residents were able to return and start to rebuild their lives and homes.
    © Ed Kashi / VII
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    The Kurds
    A woman stands in font of the ruins of her home in Qalat Dizah, Iraq on July 10, 1991. The Iraqi army destroyed this city of over 100,000 residents in the 1980's but after the Gulf War in 1991, its Kurdish residents were able to return and start to rebuild their lives and homes.
    © Ed Kashi / VII