Revenge killings (The Ruins of Iraq 3/5) | VPRO Documentary

After the fall of Saddam Hussein and the change of power that followed, large deprived areas were created. The inhabitants are willing to betray and kill for the highest bidder. In the process, today’s hunter is tomorrow’s prey. Sakir experiences how the urge for retaliation stands in the way of the reconstruction of Iraq. He visits militias in southern Mosul and victims of purges in Fallujah to explore why it is that every change of power is accompanied by so much bloody retribution. Is there a way out of this ongoing cycle of revenge killings? In the five-part series ’The Ruins of Iraq’, made in co-production with VICE Studios, Dutch-Palestinian filmmaker Sakir Khader (1990), accompanied by his friend and field producer Mohamed Rasool, travels for six months in the Iraq that we don’t get to see in the news. As a camjo director he speaks with Iraqi’s who were left behind in the places where the dust of four generations of war is slowly settling. How will their lives go on now that