Iraqi Kurdistan
A Kurdish family that was forcibly expelled from Kirkuk at the Bardaqaraman camp for displaced people. The Kurdish town of Kirkuk is an important oil producing region still in the hands of the regime. Saddam Hussein's government has been conducting an "Arabization" program of the area by imprisoning and expelling Kurds and moving Arab Iraqis into the region...Sulaimaniya, Iraqi Kurdistan. 19/11/2002...Photo © J.B. Russell