CPOY 74 Portfolio Silver, Runner-Up College Photographer of the Year: Maranie Staab
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Slide 30 of 55
December 27, 2018
Night falls inside the barbed wire fences of the Bajad Kandala Yazidi Displacement Camp in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Beginning on August 3, 2014, the Islamic State attacked the Yazidi homeland of Sinjar, killing thousands and taking just as many captive, the young men forced to fight and the women sold for their bodies. Those that survived the attack fled Sinjar and though some have begun to return to start rebuilding tens of thousands remain displaced throughout northern Iraq. Located a few miles from the Iraqi-Turkish border, the Bajed Kandala camp is currently home to over 9,000 displaced Yazidis.