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Comfort for children, A Kurdish mother weeps as she comforts her exhausted children in the schiller Valley in Iraq, April 1991. The valley was blocked(...)
Comfort for children, A Kurdish mother weeps as she comforts her exhausted children in the schiller Valley in Iraq, April 1991. The valley was blocked(...)

Comfort for children, A Kurdish mother weeps as she comforts her exhausted children in the schiller Valley in Iraq, April 1991. The valley was blocked(...)

Date4/4/1991
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Original Toronto Star caption: Comfort for children; A Kurdish mother weeps as she comforts her exhausted children in the schiller Valley in Iraq; April 1991. The valley was blocked by thousands of Kurds in make-shift camps trying to escape from Iraq into Iran. This family like thousands of others had been walking for 8 days to get within 5 kilometers of the Iranian border.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0013014F
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      Toronto Star (Firm)
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