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A Brief History OF Altash Camp:

Kurdish-Iranian refugees have a long history of suffering. Having left Iran under persecution from the government over 25 years ago, some of them were members of the Kurdish political party or ( organisation). who joined peshmerga forces and fought against fundamentalist Islamic rule and were lucky enough to escape with their lives. Many of them fled to Iraq, where the regime of Saddam Hussein placed them in the al-Tash refugee camp, located 80 miles west of Baghdad, which held over 12,000 Iranian Kurds.

Iranian Kurd Refugees in Al-Tash Camp Most of the Iranian Kurd refugees in Altash camp fled Iran in the aftermath of 1979 revolution in Iran because of war and political reason. It is necessary to be mentioned that kurdish refugees have never been given or recieved full legal protection and material assistance from the government of Iraq. UNHCR established its presence in Al-Tash refugee camp in 1991.

AltashCamp (talk) 22:07, 14 January 2008 (UTC)