INSIDE DISPLACED PERSONS CAMP IN IRAQ (Hassan Sham, Kurdistan)

does anybody speak english here no english hi fighters this is your house okay okay so uh we are here we are right now in a refugee camp in uh kurdistan near the village of hassan shams and we are here meeting the senior director of the camp who has welcomed us very warmly mr uh rasheed he is the senior camp manager of different camps in kurdistan region he managed six camps in kyrgyzstan it is all the camps there are idps not refugees the idp is from other parts of iraq right they are here he's saying there are two types of camps in kurdistan refugee camps is usually for people outside of iraq and idp camps for people displaced people yeah this place people i'm i'm i'm managing the the idp camps it has been built in 2016 it was 10 camps before and now six camps left i'm managing those camps right and uh how many people how many people are are currently in these camps foreign there are 38 000 people uh this camp is like 7 000 people living well and and the people who were in this camp are where are they from and uh what are they just refugees are they former isis members who are they the campaign [Music] so you're saying this camps is like uh for sunni arabs in mosul and you may never play they are mostly sunnis and like completely sunni people before used to be like other uh minorities also but now only sunni people left we have isis families in this camps and even isis in this camp living in these camps are they uh currently active members of isis or just just former isis members they are uh they have been caught by peshmerga like few years ago they were like teenagers they joined isis and they isis trained them and then the peshmerga captured them and they put them in prison and then they made their trials and they have been in prison for like different cases two three years and now the peshmerga released them they come to this camp because they have no other place to go if they go to their places like mosul or kirkuk or any other places the the iraqi army or and hajj shabby is controlling these areas they will capture them and put them again in prison prison because they don't believe on kurdistan region government they say they will say to them you have been in trials in kurdistan region krg we have to do our trials as well so they will be in prison twice right and and can we meet some of these these people and the families and maybe some former isis members yes thank you very much thank you very much thank you thank you i hope you have a lot of success [Music] okay so we've just just left the office of the senior director we're gonna go meet uh the inhabitants of the camp i uh what can i tell you this is gonna be an interesting day let's ask them what the what the why they are in line what they want okay so they are they are waiting for to get a card from un which they paid each family two hundred dollars they paid families and now 600 families left to get that that car that so basically what's happening right now is the people that are standing here waiting to get a it's like a credit card it's like yeah and they can have spending money to to get whatever they need this money comes from the u.n a lot of people from many different backgrounds um i wish i could talk to some of them do you speak english english no no english arabic i don't speak arabic north chicago anyone speak english does anybody speak english here no english oh you speak english nice to meet you nice to meet you what's your name my name is paris and where are you from from iraq yeah okay how long have you been living here how long are you living here this is a problem problem oh okay sorry thank you nice to meet you hello hello good morning love you too sit down in my house you want you can come to your house where is your house i would come absolutely we would love to come yes can we go let's go this way father's just invited us into his house we're gonna go yes let's do it come on we're coming where's your house how far is it is walking alongside the car and he wants to take us to his house now thank you any time these people have approached the vehicle and they said that they don't have uh gas for the generators and there's no power uh right now in their homes and uh it's a tough situation what's your name so this boy has just uh attached himself to the vehicle and he's riding along uh you know you always have to be creative when you're finding a way to keep busy in the refugee camp kid probably does not have a lot of toys [Music] we all think that we're um so we are now in the residential part of the camp and this is where this is where people live so hello hi fathers this is your house okay [Music] um yes of course we're gonna sit down so this is uh this is the home there's a little tv a mirror some clothing and blankets two mattresses and this is this is how they live and even though he has nothing he wants to invite us into his home very very touching this is a kitchen okay so what's what's this room adele aloha and this is the living room we we sit here so we were here and this is a small refrigerator some clothing a little uh cute little plush dog over here okay and is there something outside oh yeah what what's this wow there's snow oh there and this is back here this is the backyard yeah okay there's a little swing i see yeah okay [Music] he's married he he got a daughter one year old wow so is he how old is he 20 20. well and uh so i want to ask you well like what does he what does he do what do you do uh during the day so even now are they allowed to leave the camp um or other places where militia control it because they will make their problem right sympathizer he doesn't admit it but maybe he's an isis sympathizer or one of his cousin or family member was isis so if he go back they will make him problems see i'm looking at him now he looks he looks like a very nice person he invited us in um you know i would hate to find out that he that he might have been uh isis sympathizer but is there this uh is there any concept of like repentance of people who you know they've been part of isis in the past and now they want to change their lives and and become better people and you know functioning members of society um that's the job some ngo does here uh like they have activities to you know rehabilitation yeah inside the camp uh they have that but like not all the camp are isis families right of course of course and so and do you want to ask him where he was during the war if he was part of and you went to isis in 2017 they got liberated right and was he was he does he say if he was part of daesh or not too much one of his family members was with isis right and so where where is that family number uh where's the family member now he died i'm sorry i'm sorry and uh it must be it must be very very difficult to to be in this part of the world especially during this time and we i hope i hope things will get better for you and then please take care of yourself and get something nice be well okay one day things are going to get better anytime thank you for thank you for inviting us likewise thank you hi fathers we're so nice to meet you nice to meet you okay be well god bless you see you later thank you thank you for inviting us into your home uh there you go there you go take it enjoy enjoy oh