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Story from Christian Peacemaker Teams

IRAQ: Severed from Land, Life and Home, Part I, “Mothers for Peace”

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At the end of a long, dusty road, Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) arrived at the Makhmoor Refugee Camp in Iraq’s Nineveh Province.  Since 1998, this camp has been home to over 11,000 Turkish Kurds under the protection of the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees.)  They are the living relatives of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters killed in battle by the Turkish military.  In 1996, these refugees fled from the Kurdish populated villages along the southeastern border of Turkey following a military crackdown against the PKK.