No Man’s Land, the Loneliest Place Imaginable

"Imagine your entire life has been spent in a place that is not your home. Imagine that after 20 years, you’re forced to leave that place because of war. Imagine it was another war in your homeland that forced you to leave in the first place.

Imagine you fled this new war, only to find yourself stuck in a stateless zone, an area between countries, with no official recognition.

The Iranian Kurds who currently find themselves in this position, either fled their homeland in northern Iran in 1979, or are the children of those who fled.

These people fled most recently from the Al-Taash campe, which the United Nations High Commission for Refugees supervise. This camp is near Ramadi, which has been a flashpoint for violence, particularly over the last 6 months, but really for several years.

According to Barzan, an Iranian Kurd I made contact with after visiting the Ruweishid camp, Al-Taash was initially established in 1982 in collaboration with the UNHCR."
Alive in Baghdad