Alive in Baghdad - Jordan: Welcome to Ruweishid

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Ruweishid, Jordan: Ruweishid was constructed in 2003, after a decree from King Hussein ordered that refugees stranded in the "No Man's Land" between Iraq and Jordan, be allowed safe harbor within Jordan proper.

Unfortunately, the refugees soon found conditions in Jordan's Eastern Desert were not much more hospitable than the No Man's Land. Although they are safe from random killings and the violence of Iraq's war zone, not much else is better.

Refugees there suffer from the heat in summer and cold in winter. Poisonous insects are rampant, while water and electricity are a scarce commodity.

Many of the refugees you will hear in this video are teachers, they are struggling to provide their children an education. This is harder than even one might be able to imagine, they lack school books and even pencils and paper are scarce.

Against everything they are surviving, and have been there now for three years. They aren't allowed to leave the camp, except for medical emergencies, and visitors may only come with permission from the Ministry of Interior or the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.

I have not included much footage of the camp in this segment, wanting the faces of the refugees to speak to you themselves. I will be including another video post of much of the b-roll from Ruweishid.

Next week we hope to bring the first segment of newly recorded footage from Baghdad, if this proves impossible, we will have another segment, likely focusing on a conference here in Amman last week, examining the possibilities for non-violence in Iraq.

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• refugees
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• baghdad

[Butterfliesandzebras]

i really think what this channel is doing is quite heroic, getting actual footage of events, making it accessible to the wider western population, aliveinbaghdad is my number one source for Iraq news atm, not any new channel, although bbc is not bad, they just don't provide things like interviews and the live footage isn't as "raw" i really hope you reach alot of people, and save alot of lives with this.

[sulivel]

Your comment has satisfied you(is not really a question)... may God bless you and (multiply it) with everything you wish for others... keep pointing that finger and see how many are pointing at you...

[homelessdiver]

so let me get this right...these people are all complaining? About a teaching job they volunteered for? And the refugees are complaining because no-one likes them enough to want them? Theres a reason for that most of the time. I especially like how they complain about the wildlife and weather...as if it was ever any different where they grew up.

Complaining about no heater and aircon? Hell, I would like an airconditioner too!

[GrenzPolizei]

get the fuck out of bradford if you don't like it, gobshite tosser

[Keith2855]

In five years those muzzie cunts will blow up Brazil

[Keith2855]

you koran whore which cock do you like the taste of moham or allahs?

[sulivel]

greenlantern1965, I can almost bet you made this one screenname just to annoy people, to hide, what and who are you afraid of? oh well, enjoy pointing fingers, and if you can count well, open your eyes to see just how many are pointing at you... live and let live...

[saliiwa]

yes it s a good idea to try help, these people, but i think that they have now been evacuated to Brazil Yemen and Sudan, as refugees. finally their nightmare has an end as some few countries accepted to receive them.

but there are some of them who haven't left the camp yet.

[ebie58]

Remember that everything we see has been picked by someone. See and read as much as you can from everywhere and you will find the truth somewhere in the middle of all of it. You have to work to find the truth.