Qaladize trip

This morning was one of those pretty early ones. I woke up around 6 o clock, to begin our trip to Qaladize. We are going there to establish a culture centre with a mobile cinema and a library. This is the last in a series of travels before the decision.

The nature is beautiful on the way to there, as in many other parts on Kurdistan. Here are some nice views for you.

Rayne is the city you pass on the way. The name of the mountain in the background is "Kewa Rash", Black Mountain.

This is "Darband" which means and aims at the mountain pass between Ranye and Qaladize. In the background you see a small part of tremendous Qendil. I will publish pictures when i travel through the mountain there next time.

During an earlier travel in 2006 it was storm and the bridge between Ranye and Qaladize collapsed. An old man drowned when he fell in the water and was flushed away by the massive water flow. We got stuck at the wrong side of the bridge. The Peshmergas had total control of the situation and immediately several trucks, excavators and some sort of emergency manpower fixed a temporarily transition.

The people were though not patient though so some got the chance to cross before the work began. and before more of the bridge was flushed away.

This is outside Qaladize with Qendil in the background. Qaladize is surrounded with incredible mountains all around. One time we were sitting in a cafeteria eating breakfast, tea and yogurt. A older Kurdish man was sitting there also. He was upset and was swearing to the government. Suddenly he took out a bit of Kurdish cheese out of his pocket in his Kurdish sharwal [pants]. He said we have made it our self. We had of course no choice other that enjoying it. It was very tasty actually.

On the way back the trial was on radio. It is a big collective event here in Iraq. Everybody follow it either in TV or in radio translated by Radio Nawa in Kurdistan. They described the scenarios in Nugret Sheman in the Arabic parts of Iraq, the mass killing of Kurds, during the trial against chemical Ali. Eye witnesses described in detail these scenarios; how people were thrown out from the forts in the area. It was all Kurds since they had Kurdish cloths. It was women, men and children. They were wounded from torture or had shot wounds. They described in detail how hungry children walked around confusingly and laid down because they had been starved. After some time they were dead and after some day dogs started to eat on the bodies. Hundreds of people were killed in this area each day. They also described photo and video evidence from the excavations.