A village of the Ahwari people in Iraq, 1974

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This was a really interesting read: Marsh Arabs

Thanks for the pic! I would never have heard about this otherwise
Didnt Saddam kick them all out to be urban poor?
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_uprisings_in_Iraq
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draining_of_the_Mesopotamian_Marshes#Gulf_War_draining
  
  That's horrible. This may sound controversial, but I'm going to say it anyway, screw the down votes: I don't like Saddam Hussein. He was a bad dude.
I think it's from these people that Thor Heyerdhal learned how to make a reed raft for his transpacific voyage. Just so many amazing ways of life have been bullied out of existence.

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