RITE OF SPRING, Kurdistan: 22M

A kurdish woman stands atop the bombed out ruins of Saddam Hussein's summer palace on Gara mountain.  From this vantage point Hussein would plan the al-Anfal genocide which resulted in the slaughter of tens of thousands of Kurds from 1986 to 1989.

A kurdish woman stands atop the bombed out ruins of Saddam Hussein's summer palace on Gara mountain. From this vantage point Hussein would plan the al-Anfal genocide which resulted in the slaughter of tens of thousands of Kurds from 1986 to 1989.