(25 Mar 2003) VOICED BY LOUISE BATES:
Zawita valley north of Dohuk
0000 Midshot tents
0004 Pan across camp
0011 Midshot camp
0014 Woman washing clothes in the open
0022 Man building tent frame
0025 Closeup woman
0028 Tilt up young boy
0033 Midshot of tent frame
0038 Closeup of little girl
0043 SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Nargiz Mohamed, refugee:
"We hope there will be peace in our area and we also hope America will control Kurdistan and all the world. We want them to remove Saddam and then everyone will be happy and peace will be established in Kurdistan and the world."
0051 Wideshot tents
0055 Interior shot mother rocking baby
0101 Midshot of old couple in tent
0105 Wideshot road with tents
0110 Women walking along road
0117 VISION ENDS
STORYLINE
Kurds continued to flee towards the Turkish border as Turkey announced plans to send forces up to 20 kilometers (12 miles) into northern Iraq to deal with the potential influx of refugees.
Both the US and NATO allies have strongly urged Turkey not to carry out a major military incursion into Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq and have welcomed Turkish assurances that their plans are limited to humanitarian operations.
But Turkey's fears are not just about refugee influx.
They are also concerned Kurds will seize the northern oil fields or establish an independent state as Saddam Hussein's regime is overthrown - which would complicate Turkey's conflict with its own Kurdish minority.
American officials fear clashes between Turkish forces and Iraqi Kurds.
0002 Precarious living conditions in precarious times.
0005 Kurdish families living too near the Iraqi front-line for comfort have fled their homes for fear of coming under fire.
0015 They have come here to the Zawita valley to take refuge.
0020 As another family arrives, another makeshift home quickly assembled.
0025 Many here left their homes near the border with Baghdad-controlled territory a few days before the first US-led strikes on Iraq began.
0034 With hopes for an independent Kurdish state, free from Iraqi rule, these refugees are staunchly behind the US led war in Iraq.
0043 This woman said once Saddam was removed by Americans, peace could be established both in Kurdistan and throughout the world.
0051 But the Kurdish future is uncertain.
0053 These images do not yet reflect the scale of the refugee crisis after the last Gulf War.
100 Then, hundreds of thousands of starving Iraqi Kurds fled Saddam Hussein's forces for the border.
107 The result - a humanitarian disaster for Turkey.
110 There are up to 700 people here at the moment, but this may be only the beginning of a mass exodus.
117 VISION ENDS
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