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Iranian Kurd refugee Tuba Mahmoud Mohamad makes tea in her home in the Al tash refugee camp 150 kms northwest of Baghdad, Iraq on April 27, 2003. With the ouster of Saddam Hussein, there is a glimmer of hope among some 12,000 Iranian Kurds who have been languishing in a refugee camp for more than 20 years, having arrived in Iraq from the areas bordering Iran and Iraq in 1980. The majority are
Iranian Kurd refugee Tuba Mahmoud Mohamad makes tea in her home in the Al tash refugee camp 150 kms northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, on April 27, 2003. With the ouster of Saddam Hussein, there is a glimmer of hope among some 12,000 Iranian Kurds who have been languishing in a refugee camp for more than 20 years, having arrived in Iraq from the areas bordering Iran and Iraq in 1980. The majority are "victims" of the Iran-Iraq war who were forced by Saddam to flee to Iraq when his forces occupied a border stretch of Iranian towns, such as Qaser Shirin and Sar-e Pol-e Zahab in Kermanshah province.

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