General information

Call No.:

350-4-3:73/1

Part of series

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

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #73 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009878

Original Title

[1/2]

Date of production

1991

Date

1991

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

Kurdish, English

Duration

1 hour 34 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Raw material

Contents Summary

Continuation of the “Kurdish Tape” series. Footage from a moving car shows the outskirts of Kirkuk municipality immediately after the Gulf War: people defacing pictures of Saddam Hussein; destroyed buildings, tanks and wrecked cars; security offices with Kurdish soldiers on the side of the road. The tape also includes brief interviews with Kurds discussing the post-war situation, describing the experiences in prison camps, and assessing their situation after being released. It contains images of children injured in hospitals, victims of Iraqi chemical attacks, and interviews with their parents explaining what happened to them. The medical staff provide details of the emergency supplies. The tape continues with footage of people digging up the ground to search for bodies, where their friends and relatives might be buried. It continues with women giving detailed accounts of rape, and the locations where it happened. The tape ends with images from a meeting with various Peshmerga fighters and images of refugees on the roads of Kurdistan.