You have to wonder if people living like this will ever have a better life.
Displaced Kurdish Yazidi refugees making a dangerous living in Iraqi Kurdistan
June 4, 2015 by Editorial Staff in Refugees, Yazidis
Kurdish Yazidi refugee Zaidoon, 20, studies another refinery, Slemani, Iraqi Kurdistan region. Photo credit: Sebastian Meyer
SLEMANI, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,— Zaidoon’s 17-year-old cousin, Jamal, darts between the refinery’s enormous storage drums. He is trying to fill a jerry can with gasoline for one of the truck drivers which has pulled up with an empty tanker. Jamal runs over to the huge drum that holds the gasoline and throws open the spigot at the bottom. A jet of black liquid shoots out which then turns clear. Jamal cups his hand and catches some of it, bringing it up to his face as if he’s about to take a sip.
What he’s actually doing is sniffing to see if the liquid is water or not. In these big drums, the water and gasoline separate and the heavier water sinks to the bottom. Because the spigot is also at the bottom of the drum, Jamal isn’t getting any gasoline, just handfuls of smelly water.
Less than fifty yards away from the refinery sits a shipping container and a plastic cabin where Zaidoon and his family live. Six months earlier they fled their home in Sinjar when ISIS launched their murderous campaign against the Yazidi population and attacked the city.
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http://ekurd.net/displaced-yazidi-refugees-making-a-dangerous-living-in-iraqi-ku
Displaced Kurdish Yazidi refugees making a dangerous living in Iraqi Kurdistan
June 4, 2015 by Editorial Staff in Refugees, Yazidis
Kurdish Yazidi refugee Zaidoon, 20, studies another refinery, Slemani, Iraqi Kurdistan region. Photo credit: Sebastian Meyer
SLEMANI, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,— Zaidoon’s 17-year-old cousin, Jamal, darts between the refinery’s enormous storage drums. He is trying to fill a jerry can with gasoline for one of the truck drivers which has pulled up with an empty tanker. Jamal runs over to the huge drum that holds the gasoline and throws open the spigot at the bottom. A jet of black liquid shoots out which then turns clear. Jamal cups his hand and catches some of it, bringing it up to his face as if he’s about to take a sip.
What he’s actually doing is sniffing to see if the liquid is water or not. In these big drums, the water and gasoline separate and the heavier water sinks to the bottom. Because the spigot is also at the bottom of the drum, Jamal isn’t getting any gasoline, just handfuls of smelly water.
Less than fifty yards away from the refinery sits a shipping container and a plastic cabin where Zaidoon and his family live. Six months earlier they fled their home in Sinjar when ISIS launched their murderous campaign against the Yazidi population and attacked the city.
Continue reading at:
http://ekurd.net/displaced-yazidi-refugees-making-a-dangerous-living-in-iraqi-ku
