Return to Kirkuk: A Year in the Fire | movie | 2006 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

It was 30 years ago that 14 year old Karzan Sherabayani was arrested and tortured by Saddam Hussein's secret police, his | dG1fWm1DNmVUNlNCT0k

Transcript

00:00 Kirkuk is my hometown.

00:06 As a teenager I had to escape Saddam Hussein's terror and ever since lived in exile in Europe.

00:15 I had been imprisoned by Saddam's secret police and badly tortured when I was just 14.

00:22 My only crime was being Kurdish.

00:26 I was lucky, I escaped, but I am still struggling with my own nightmares.

00:34 For the first time in 25 years I am now back trying to come to terms with the violent past

00:40 of my country and the uncertain future which lies ahead for my people, the Kurds.

00:48 We are forced to live in Iraq, a country that's torn by religious hostilities between the

00:53 Sunni and Shiite Arabs.

00:56 I am worried that despite my people's endless cry for peace and democracy, we will be dragged

01:02 into their civil war.

01:03 [Music]

01:13 [BLANK_AUDIO]