(12 Sep 1996) T/I 10:19:15
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that there are more than 20,000 Kurdish refugees camping near Iraq's border with Iran, having fled the fighting between rival KDP and PUK Kurdish factions. Some Kurds have crossed the border into Iran, but the UNHCR is uncertain of the number.
Stafford Clarry, a UN spokesman, says that the UN is urging the Kurds to return to their homes, believing that this is the best solution to the refugee crisis. However, the UN has no plans to actually guarantee the safety of any returnees.
SHOWS:
IRAQ, NEAR BORDER WITH IRAN, AND THE IRANIAN SIDE OF THE BORDER, 11-12
SEPTEMBER, 1996
IRAQI SIDE OF THE BORDER, 11 SEPTEMBER, 1996
VS of the camp;
Armed peshmergas;
Man on donkey;
More of peshmergas;
PUK ambulance in camp;
A man wounded in the Arbil fighting being operated on;
Peshmerga loading bullets into weapon;
WS camp;
Helicopter in air;
Governor of Baneh, Irach Hasanzadeh and delegation visiting the camp;
Queue of cars;
Child with donkey;
More of refugges;
Man making bread;
Child sleeping on ground;
Woman cooking on makeshift fire;
Baby crying;
Man carrying child;
WS of camp;
BASHE, IRAN-IRAQ BORDER GATE, ON THE IRANIAN SIDE, 12 SEPTEMBER, 1996
Cu Iranian soldiers walking towards gate;
Pan up to portraits of Khomeni and Rafsanjani, Iranian flag;
Kurdish boy washing in stream;
Kurdish refugees returning to Iraq;
Refugees walking over plank bridge;
Trucks queuing up on the border;
More of refugees;
Staffrod Clarry, UN official in charge of humanitarin affairs SOT
in english: "We'll have a more clear estimate later today. Thousands of people returned yesterday...hopefully more will return today where they can protect their property. because of this the transition there is often looting and neighbour taking advantage of neighbour";
MC woman with child;
WS of border gate;
pan across border gate;
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