The Invisible Child

<p class=ql-align-justify>In 1991 my friend Michael Nye traveled to Northern Iraq to be a witness to the suffering of the Kurdish people who had become refugees in their own land. It was a time of war. The Kurds after decades of harsh rule by the Iraqi government had rebelled and were demanding self rule and independence. Iraqi soldiers in village after village were rounding up civilians and executing them. More than 400000 Kurds fled their homes.  </p><p><br></p>