“My family was killed in Halabja… I never saw my daughter who was born after I left for war,” said Mohammad Hama Amin, a prisoner of Iran-Iraq War, in the Post War Chronicles documentary produced by Rudaw.
The documentary delves into the devastating war and the lasting trauma it left on soldiers and prisoners of war. The conflict, which began in 1980, lasted eight years and claimed the lives of around one million soldiers from both nations.
“My family did not know what had happened to me... They took back a body that was just bones claiming to be me… the grave still exists in my name,” said Ziad Qadir, another prisoner of war.
“I knocked on the door, but no one opened. A neighbour recognized me and offered to take me to my brother’s house. My brother informed me that Nasrin had remarried,” said another prisoner of war who preferred not to be identified.
