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IRAQ. Qala Diza and surroundings. April 1991. 

Susan Meiselas 

In 1974, the small city of Qala Diza, which is north of Suleimaniyah and about 10 miles from the Iranian border, became a home for Kurdish professors and students who wanted to live in the Kurdish liberated zone and be near the univeristy in Suleimaniyah. This resulted in an attack on the town by the Iraqis. Seventy thousand people were attacked here in a bombing raid in 1974. The Iraqi army attacked Qala Diza again in 1989, completely destroying the town and forcing the entire population of 16,000 families to relocate. There have been 26 towns and 4,000 villages detroyed by the Iraqis since the mid-1970s. 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Qala Diza, Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. Families... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Qala Diza, Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. Looking... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Qala Diza, Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. Families... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Qala Diza, Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. A woman... 

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IRAQ. Qala Diza, Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. Families return to... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Qala Diza, Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. Peshmerga... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Qala Diza, Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. A family... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Qala Diza, Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. A woman... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Qala Diza, Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. Women cook... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Qala Diza, Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. A woman... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Qala Diza, Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. A mother... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Qala Diza, Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. A man get... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Qala Diza, Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. Families... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Qala Diza, Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. A man tends... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Qala Diza, Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. A man lies... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Qala Diza, Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. In a small... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Qala Diza, Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. The sister... 

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IRAQ. Qasir. 1991. A shot-up portrait of Saddam HUSSEIN. 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. Refugees live in a... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. Saddam Hussein's portrait... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. Saddam Hussein's portrait... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. A Peshmerga checkpoint... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. A Peshmerga checkpoint... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. A Peshmerga checkpoint... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. Peshmerga men make... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. Peshmerga militia along... 

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KURDISTAN. Qala Diza. 1991. Once populated by 70,000 people and... 

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. The village of Khalacan,... 

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IRAQ. 1991. 

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IRAQ. 1991. 

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IRAQ. Kurdistan. 1991.

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IRAQ. Kurdistan. 1991.

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IRAQ. Kurdistan. 1991.

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IRAQ. Kurdistan. 1991.

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IRAQ. Kurdistan. 1991.

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IRAQ. Kurdistan. 1991.

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NORTHERN IRAQ. Liberated Kurdistan. 1991. Saddam Hussein's portrait... 

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IRAQ. Kurdistan. Jeznikam-Beharke. 1991. Village cemetery. 
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