Iranian Kurd refugee children stand in front of a defaced portrait
of Saddam Hussein at the Al tash refugee camp 150 kms northwest
of Baghdad, Iraq Sunday 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 come 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. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
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