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Trapped on Mount Sinjar by Moises Saman | MAGNUM
In mid-August, Moises Saman was documenting the plight of trapped Yezidi refugees in Kurdistan for TIME when the helicopter he was traveling in crashed. Saman and most of the passengers escaped with minor injuries and only days later the stranded Yezidis were rescued. - The Yezidis, one of Iraq's oldest and most secretive sects, believe that following the great biblical flood, Noah and his ark came to rest on Mount Sinjar, a range of mountains that run parallel to what is, today, the border between Iraq and Syria. But, for up to 50,000 of Iraq's Yezidis, this sacred land has become a deadly prison. - Forced from their homes by militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Yezidis, most of them women, children and elderly, were given two choices: face certain death at the hands of fanatics or flee to the uncertain refuge that is Mount Sinjar. - With temperatures reaching 100 degrees, the conditions on the Sinjar Mountains are dire. Most of the Yezidis ran for the hills without food and water. Kurdish fighters from Iraq and Syria have been trying to establish a humanitarian corridor to provide relief to the thousands of trapped Yezidis, but their resources are limited. "They are using two or three old and rusty, [Soviet-era] helicopters," says Saman. "There hasn't been a mass airlift effort, there's not that much aid that's getting there, and that's one thing that I was surprised about." (...) - Like many photographers who have covered humanitarian crises before, Saman hopes his images will force authorities into taking action. "I hope people will realize how bad the situation is for these people, I also hope that they will find a way to relate somehow," he says. "I know it's going to be difficult because these things don't often happen in the West. But, it's such a dramatic and sad situation." (...) [ Excerpt from Olivier Laurent's interview with the photographer ]
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