'His death kills me each day': Mosul residents return home – to what?

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After Isis were driven out of Mosul, traumatised families slowly returned to their devastated neighbourhoods. Over more than two months, they told Mona Mahmood their harrowing stories

 

Warning: this report contains distressing details

 

Mona Mahmood

Wed 31 Jan 2018 07.30 GMT Last modified on Wed 31 Jan 2018 15.50 GMT

 

 

 

The families affected by war in Mosul

Composite: The Guardian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More pics in link

 

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jan/31/death-portraits-life-iraq-mosul-old-city

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How the people of Mosul subverted Isis 'apartheid'

 

Part two – the fall: Once Isis had established its authority in Mosul, it administered the city using a two-tier system – privileges for ‘brothers’, hardship for everyone else. But locals resisted, and the Ponzi scheme began to crumble

 

 

Tue 30 Jan 2018 07.30 GMT

by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in Mosul

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jan/30/mosul-isis-apartheid

[umbertino]

The bureaucracy of evil: how Islamic State ran a city

 

Part one – the rise: It was in the Iraqi city of Mosul that Isis attempted to prove its legitimacy – by transforming from an insurgency into a state. Alongside the murders and mass terror ran a functioning bureaucracy, with streamlined rubbish collections and electricity smart meters

 

 

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in Mosul

Mon 29 Jan 2018 07.30 GMT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jan/29/bureaucracy-evil-isis-run-city-mosul

[danielchu]

The sunni reaped what they sowed!!