Those who remain (Irak, august, septembre 2016)

After more than two years of war and genocide perpetrated by DAESH against the Yezidi population, the Sinjar region in northern Iraq is trapped between the Siryan border, the Kurdistan Autonomous Region of Iraq (KRG) Turkey and DAESH. The Yezidi community is wounding its wounds and trying to rebuild a very uncertain future. Mount Sinjar and its enormous surrounding plains is the last kingdom of the Yezidi in Iraq. It is today a disputed territory between several fractions and regular armed forces that project there different ideological and territorial ambitions. Those who remain of the Yezidi population are not among the 20,000 victims of genocide or war. Those who, by choice or by default, have remained, resist and reorganize a precarious life between the feeling of wandering and the desire to fight again; those who remain live in the past and the present, because tomorrow is far away.

- The war against the Islamic state in Iraq continues. The front line is approaching Mosul, one of the last stronghold of the IE to release. On the road to Mosul villages are recently freed from the yoke of extremists. Families must rebuild, rebuild and face accusations of collaboration. Some return after fleeing, life is suspended.

During my report in Iraq in August and September 2016, I saw the borders moving, I heard the words like "kurdification", "Arabization". The war in Iraq against the Islamic state has again disrupted the country's cartography, and population movements have stopped in the refugee and displaced camps. From northern Iraq to the south of Mosul, I looked at the families and the separation and found the same notions of sacrifice.