Kurds displaced by Iraq advance fear reprisals if they return
Four hours after first hearing gunfire outside his home, Abu Riwar bundled his wife and six children into his car and drove to a remote village 120 km (75 miles) away. “We left with the clothes on our back and nothing else,” said Abu Riwar, a member of the Kurdish security forces from the ethnically […]Raya Jalabi writes for Reuters:
Four hours after first hearing gunfire outside his home, Abu Riwar bundled his wife and six children into his car and drove to a remote village 120 km (75 miles) away.
“We left with the clothes on our back and nothing else,” said Abu Riwar, a member of the Kurdish security forces from the ethnically mixed town of Tuz Khurmato, seized last month by Iraqi troops and Iran-backed Shi’ite paramilitaries. “If the militias found out I was Peshmerga, they’d have slaughtered me.”
They burned his home to the ground instead, his neighbors, who captured it on camera, told him.
