Reports 2020-08-19 Life in Coronavirus times Kaka’i family can’t afford more than modest breakfast No airport in Kirkuk in the foreseeable future “It does not seem that we will see planes flying over this city. Where is that Remains of Kocho massacre victims still in Baghdad one year after exhumation The remains of villagers from Kocho massacred by ISIS Two eyewitness accounts on what happened in Kocho in August 2014 On the commemoration day of the massacre of the Ezidis at the Goodbye tent; hello ruins! After six years living in tents, Ayad Habib was granted permission by security forces to go Villagers in Garmiyan quit farming and work for oil companies Newly-discovered oil wells in the Garmiyan region have transformed the economic fabric of the region, and Her name means “stranger” for a tragic reason Ghariba was born two months after the ISIS attack on Shingal. She was recently in Baghdad Since the start of the year: 36 registered suicides in Kirkuk Since the start of the year, 36 suicide cases have been registered in Kirkuk No income, no audience as COVID-19 looms over life of Kaka’i calligrapher Instead of warm handshakes and flower bouquets, Adnan gets a few impersonal “likes” on social media Extortion rampant at checkpoints between KRI and Baghdad The Iraqi government fails to tackle the rampant extortion and bribe taking at the checkpoints between “Hawijas Beloved” dies at the age of 100 “Hawija’s Beloved,” the woman who stood by the people of Hawija in good and bad times The Kakai’s marginalized and excluded in decision making in Iraq From village administrations to the highest political, military and administrative positions, the Kaka’is don’t have representatives Yazidis demand ISIS atrocities against their community to be recognized as genocide The Yazidis and most Iraqi government officials consider what ISIS did to the community as genocide. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 15 16
