RITE OF SPRING, Kurdistan: 4M

In Halabja, Kurdish families pose before tanks that were once used to exterminate them. In 2006, the ex-president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, was charged with the Anfal genocide which killed between 50,000 to 182,000 Kurds, and destroyed all ancestral Kurdish villages of north Iraq.

In Halabja, Kurdish families pose before tanks that were once used to exterminate them. In 2006, the ex-president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, was charged with the Anfal genocide which killed between 50,000 to 182,000 Kurds, and destroyed all ancestral Kurdish villages of north Iraq.