Imposed siege pose threat on 1 ,000 people lives at Mexmûr Camp

The KDP authorities  have imposed a suffocating siege on the martyr Rustam Jodi camp in Başûr of Kurdistan ( since July 18, 2019, a day after killing the deputy of the Turkish consul in Hewler.

Some 12,000 people live at the martyr Rustam Jodi camp (Mexmûr) after the fierce Turkish attacks on the towns and villages of Bakûr of Kurdistan in the 1990s. The camp is also known as the Resistance Camp for the bravery of its residents who sacrificed the Kurdish Cause with everything they had. The camp was named after the martyr who sacrificed his life for the Kurdish Cause.

The imposed siege by the KDP-Iraq authorities has significantly affected the camp's residents, which is under the umbrella of the UNHCR for Refugees, which has so far taken no real stance on the siege and has not provided any assistance to the camp's residents since 2015. 

The imposed siege consequences

The martyr Rustam Judi camp lack the minimum living requirements due to the siege not to mention the medical supplies in this critical phase of the Coronavirus outbreak in the whole world. Three women were aborted (Fatima Haji Hussein, Azama Ahmed Lawandd and Fatima Solou Qatas), in addition to the  death of a 6-year-old child  for lack of treatment and the ban on going to Hewler hospitals. The child's mother's name is Newroz Ahmed Saleh.

In addition, 2,000 workers lost their jobs and 10 students failed of 120 university students because the KDP forces have prevented them from entering the university without signing documents with unknown contents.

More than 1,000 people are in danger

Hundreds of people are in need of healthcare after the Corona pandemic outbreak in Başûr of Kurdistan which also claims the lives of the weak- immunity people and the elderly. 

According to the statistics obtained by our agency, the number of people who have high pressure is 310 people, diabetes 168, heart disease 143, kidney disease 82, asthma 60, cancer 16, epilepsy 20 and tuberculosis 11, thyroid disease 52, pressure and sugar 74, pressure, sugar and heart 23, various other diseases 192, bedridden patients 21, down syndrome (autism) 30, and the number of over 70 years of age is about 300 people.

"On August 8, 2014, ISIS launched attacks on the camp, but the Popular Defense Forces along the camp residents were able to attack strongly and restore stability and security," Bewar Makhmour, member of the Diplomatic Relations Committee in the administration of the martyr Rustam Judi camp told our agency that the KDP-Iraq authorities imposed a suffocating siege on the camp in response to the Turkish occupation state demands to break the will of the camp's people.

The administration of the camp calls on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)  to press the Kurdistan Regional Authorities to lift the siege and to withstand the repercussions of the blockade.  It also appealed to the Autonomous Administration of the North and East of Syria to provide medical support following the Corona pandemic breakout in the world and Kurdistan, in particular the new discovered "testing kit " of the Health Authority in NE of Syria in cooperation with the Swedish Institute ( PEAS), to curb the virus camp and test the students who were at Hewler University.  The administration expressed its readiness to help said "we're going to send kit to the camp."

The management of the martyr Rustam Judi camp is trying to prevent the emergence of the coronavirus in the camp.

A.J

ANHA