Iraq crisis: talking to the Yazidi refugees
Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect fleeing violence in Iraq take refuge in camps across Dohuk. Channel 4 News has been on the ground speaking to the refugees.
Yazidis waiting for transport into Iraqi Kurdistan. UN estimating 95,000 came down from Mt Sinjar in last 10 days: pic.twitter.com/zuGImyWVfu
— Jonathan Rugman (@jrug) August 15, 2014
This refugee camp for Yazidis built in last few days. Temperature 46 degrees: pic.twitter.com/EO4rt8iNBI
— Jonathan Rugman (@jrug) August 15, 2014
Yazidis heading back towards Sinjar mountain to help trapped relatives. (This isn’t over). pic.twitter.com/8qUV95cUCF
— Jonathan Rugman (@jrug) August 15, 2014
On a truck with Mirza and family heading for new home: a building site: pic.twitter.com/Mz44fByh8W
— Jonathan Rugman (@jrug) August 15, 2014
Mirza Khalil says saw hundreds dead after 15 days. Nobody told him of foreign rescue plan so he never expected it: pic.twitter.com/eAm8kfMjNr
— Jonathan Rugman (@jrug) August 15, 2014
Yazidi refugees fleeing by truck. Kurdish YPG fighters brought them off mountain & organised transport: pic.twitter.com/7RB7zSyRGb
— Jonathan Rugman (@jrug) August 15, 2014