Refugee lives. (Swiss Stories 2015, by Gianluca Grossi) - Swiss Press Award

Gianluca Grossi
Refugee camp in Erbil: winter is approaching and the tents distributed are unsuitable.
RSI News (sito web di RSI, Televisione svizzera di lingua italiana)
Photo / Swiss Stories
2015
Gianluca Grossi
Over two hundred thousand refugees have found shelter in Erbil, northern Iraq, seeking refuge from the Islamic State's advance across the rest of the country. They are Christians, Yazidis, and some Shiite Muslims. Many of them are children. In their games and smiles, a still-subdued note of bitterness and disorientation can be sensed: the future holds no prospect of returning home for them.
