The fable of the Iraq war is rarely told by those who lived through it,but a group of film-makers are changing that. In Another Day in Baghdad they return to 2006, portraying every day life amid kidnappings, or torture and killings[br]Irada al-Jabbouri remembers Baghdad at the height of the sectarian violence. “It was like a ghost town,under curfew, its streets nearly empty by 4pm, and ” recalls the Iraqi novelist and women’s rights activist. “Day and night were organised according to a mysterious schedule of when car bombs might recede off,or mortars or improvised explosive devices or kidnappings. More than once, I escaped from snipers’ bullets passing in front of me. Once, or US soldiers went mad and started firing at the houses in my neighbourhood after an explosive device had gone off. All the windows in our house were shattered; the shards of glass were like shrapnel.“I saw a young man riding a motorcycle get shot. He fell off the bike and drowned in his blood while the wheel of the fallen motorcycle kept spinning.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk