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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Displaced Families Return to Baghdad [Watch (HLS stream): Displaced Families Return to Baghdad](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKnZqg9E.m3u8) (3:21)  _Published 2008-09-09. Rania Abouzeid meets Sunni and Shiite families, displaced by sectarian violence, as they return to the Hay al Furat neighborhood in Baghdad_ --- Jul 27, 2023 1:00 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Voices in Baghdad, Six Years On](/video/B45R6F0H/) ### Voices in Baghdad, Six Years On [Booming Business Behind Baghdad's Walls](/video/Wh1aDIBB/) ### Booming Business Behind Baghdad's Walls [Nightlife in Baghdad](/video/8fvBX2GW/) ### Nightlife in Baghdad --- ## Transcript >> Brigadier General Baha' al- Azzawi leads his police platoon on their daily patrol of these dusty streets, west of Baghdad. He's checking on displaced families who've returned to their homes and telling squatters they have to leave. The Iraqi government is keen to promote reconciliation by trying to re- establish mixed neighborhoods like this one in Hay al Furat. It was brutally cleaved into separate Sunni and Shiite enclaves by the insurgents. Some of these streets were Al- Qaeda's strongholds, others, belong to the Mahdi army, but they were also once home to thousands of families who fled the vicious sectarian bloodletting. >> You know, before six months, the streets-- we call [ unk ] 'death' street, because they kill somebody and put the body here over the street. >> The graffiti says empty, it also means that Azzawi's men have checked the home for IED's and other potential threats. There are whole streets in this area that are largely deserted. Some 4. 8 million Iraqis have been displaced by the war according to the UN. 5, 000 families escaped from this district alone Azzawi tells me. Now, many are trickling back, and those who sought temporary shelter among their co- religionist are moving out. Ammar Abdel- Karim hastily loads a truck with his family's belongings. He's been squatting in this house for eight months. The owner wants it back he tells me, so his family of six is leaving voluntarily. Although improved security is propelling some people to return, financial or legal difficulties are forcing many others. Awataf Mahmoud Taher shows me where her husband was shot dead in their kitchen. She and her four >> daughters recently returned to their home in As- Sayidieh after it became harder and harder to make the rent. She has no doubt why her husband was killed. -[ Foreign Language ] >> She's worried about moving back to this predominantly Sunni area, but says she has no place else to go. Ali al Amari is the head of As- Sayidieh's local council. He too fled this former Al- Qaeda stronghold after insurgents threatened him. He understands the distrust that many people still feel, but says that his town is trying to put the ugliness of the past behind it .-[ Foreign Language ] >> Azzawi congratulates Taher on her return and continues his patrol. He stops abruptly at the site of pro- Mahdi army graffiti and orders one of his men to cover it. Only one force controls these streets now he says, and that's the Iraqi Security Forces. He's hoping that the residents of these battle- scarred streets realize that. 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