General information

Call No.:

350-4-3:80/1

Part of series

HU OSA 350-4-3 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Middle East: Iraq

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #80 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009885

Date of production

1991

Date

1991

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English, English, Kurdish

Duration

39 min.

Notes

Some of the news are also recorded on tapes #75, #76, #78.

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

Continuation of the news reports about the flight of Kurds from Iraq. Jeremy Bowen reports from Cukurca, Turkey, about the conditions in the refugee camps. Several news reports describe the sanitary conditions, the lack of water and food, health deterioration, and the increasing number of deaths. Interviews with Iraqi Kurds are included in these reports. Later reports describe the situation as stable, though not much better. Philippe Chazerand, a doctor in the camp, argues that there is no possibility of the refugees returning home, given that they are in poor health, scared, and weak from the previous journey. Those who consider doing the return journey are still waiting for the allies to secure their villages. Debi Davies reports from the refugee camps and the hospitals set up to help the people who are in a critical condition. Doctors expect 90 percent of the patients to die due to a lack of resources, including essential medicine (Dr. Ahmed Rafiq and Dr. Ken Hines). Contains footage of the improvised mortuaries and of the numerous inert bodies placed there. Katie Adie provides a report on the Kurds who decided to return home to their villages in Iraq. Footage of the houses reveals that there is nothing left for the returnees to start afresh. A short news report describes the damage caused by Saddam Hussein on a national level followed by footage of Kurds fleeing the country.