“I was either gonna survive or I was gonna die” A Kurdish refugee story with Havin Rashid

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Jiyan Foundation Podcast

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We talk with human rights workers, mental health experts, survivors, and activists about their experiences in the fight to realize a more peaceful and democratic world. Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights US is a charitable organization supporting survivors of human rights violations, defending fundamental freedoms, and promoting democratic values worldwide. Our programs provide mental health, medical treatment and other support services to survivors of trauma, terror, domestic violence, and human rights violations. Support Jiyan Foundation by making a donation to www.jiyan.org/donate

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“I was either gonna survive or I was gonna die” A Kurdish refugee story with Havin Rashid

Jiyan Foundation Podcast

32 minutes 27 seconds

2 years ago

“I was either gonna survive or I was gonna die” A Kurdish refugee story with Havin Rashid

How do refugees and asylum seekers obtain food, money or shelter? What’s it like rebuilding a life in the United States?

Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Havin, a former refugee and asylum seeker who survived the Anfal Genocide. The Anfal campaign was an operation carried out by Saddam Hussein’s Ba'athist Iraq in 1988 at the end of the Iran–Iraq War. The campaign targeted primarily rural Kurds with the purpose of eliminating Kurdish rebel groups to Arabize the region.

Havin is accompanied by her daughter Wan Rashid, who translates on her behalf. Wan you may know from our previous episode is Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Effendi Foundation. The two of them currently reside with their family in Nashville Tennessee. This episode accompanies our previous episode and is the first part of that conversation. If you haven’t, I encourage everyone to listen to that interview “Grit, will, and representing diversity with Wan Rashid from Effendi Foundation”.

Because of the language barrier, this episode is edited to a greater extent than previous episodes. This is Havin’s story.

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