Award of Excellence
Thomas Dworzak Magnum Photos / TIME Magazine
"CHAINED"
IRAQ, Kirkuk. 04/10/2003 Kurdish oil rich city in the
North of Iraq. Considered the "Jerusalem of the Kurds".After the
city was abandoned the day after the fall of Baghdad, by Iraqi troops,
following more then 3 weeks of US bombing of its frontlines and
military/governement installations, thousands of Peshmerga forces from the
two parties PUK and KDP entered the city. They took over former government
buildings and there was widespread looting, mostly of government buildings.
Several Iraqi soldiers were killed earlier, and Saddam Hussein statues were
torn down and there was all-out celebration.
