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“THEY were trying to escape from them,” Mohammad says as the Kurdistan Regional Government announced that the bodies of 16 people who drowned in the channel in November were being returned home.
“Now it is the Barzanis that are bringing them back. Even in death they cannot get away from them,” he tells me, his voice tinged with sadness.
His best friend is one of the thousands who have fled Iraqi Kurdistan in recent months, desperate to escape a brutally oppressive regime and deepening poverty that has blighted the region.
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