It was a day like any other in the village of Kani Mazane, in the far north of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Khaled had gone shopping when three bombs hit his village and set his field on fire 

 The fire has escalated.

My brother said he was going to go put out the fire.

His children asked him to stay, but he replied that all of their crops were going up in smoke.

He ran away.

As soon as they arrived at the scene, the plane came back. They fired three bombs ... During the 4 hours that followed, no one moved.

There were planes circling, so people had to stay holed up.

After 4 hours all the surrounding villages mobilized.

200 men left at sunset to fetch my brother's remains ”

 Turkey says we must not let the PKK hide around us.

But what can we do

?

The PKK fighters have weapons, we only have our hands.

So the Turks come to look for the PKK and they also kill us with them.

People cannot abandon their fields and their land.

They have no other accommodation in town.

There is no work, no salary.

So people stay, they have to.

After a bombardment people try to convince themselves that it will stop, and then 10 days later there are new strikes 

 Iraq is not the only one to let it go.

The regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan also continues to collaborate with Turkey.

The PKK is in any case the enemy brother of the ruling PDK party.

This subject is therefore taboo in the region.

Since Khaled's death in August, at least seven other civilians have been killed.

The powerful and rich Turkish neighbor seems to always have carte blanche