Kurdistan Regional Government-Iraq Representation in Austria

Since June 2014 the extremists of the Islamic State (IS) have raged through Iraq and have already cost the lives of thousands. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, above all those of the Christian, Yezidi and Turkmen minorities, are fleeing from IS and their
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For days now the Austrian tv and radio reports at length about the dramatic humanitarian situation of hundreds of thousands of refugees, most notably the minorities of Christians and Yezidis, who after the recent advances of the extremists of the Islamic State (IS) have sought refuge, in the Kurdistan Region. Reports on Austrian TV (ORF)
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In an interview with the daily newspaper Die Presse, Reimon draws attention to the plight of the 1.5 million refugees in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and calls for urgent humanitarian assistance by the European States. From Austria he already demanded on Monday evening, direct assistance for Kurdistan. “About 1.5 million refugees and internally displaced…
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Michel Reimon reports on the daring rescue efforts of the refugees on Mount Sinjar by the Kurdish Peshmerga and international aid organizations. “The helicopters fly medicine, food and drinking water to the people. On the day when I was in the helicopter, the Peshmerga forces managed to fly 100 people to a safe airport which…
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Michel Reimon, EU-Parliamentarian of the Austrian Green Party, reports live from Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region Iraq and views his personal impressions of the refugee crisis on the ground. Michel Reimon im ZIB 2 Interview mit Armin Wolf, 11 August 2014
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In this dramatic eyewitness report Michel Reimon, EU Parliamentarian of the Austrian Green Party, reports about the rescue mission of the thousands of refugees in the Sinjar Mountains. Helicopters support the tens of thousands of Yezidi with water and food. A few refugees manage, as can be seen in the video, to jump in the…
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