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Its not very often that I see things that evoke nostalgia for being back in England (of course TV Episodes of Morse or Lewis do but …..), however this Qik video from Christian Payne aka Documentally did.

Click on the Image to see the video!

Seeing Balloons flying over the English countryside is SOOOOOO cool! It’s something I could say I do miss!

It’s the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War and with talk of it not being even half-way through, we are approaching the 4000th American combat death.

More importantly, a recent World Health Organization report based on Iraqi Health Ministry figures estimated that 151,000 Iraqi civilians were killed between March 2003, the start of the invasion, and June 2006.

Many of the reports of civilian deaths are disputed. What cannot be argued, however, is another grave consequence of the Iraq War: the displacement crisis as a mass exodus of Iraqis flee the instabilities and ever-increasing sectarian violence at home, tearing their families apart.

In mid-January 2008, with the support of the United Nations High Commission For Refugees (UNHCR), Christian Payne (aka Documentally)  traveled to Amman, Jordan to photograph and record a few of these families trapped in a no-man’s land; asylum seekers looking for refuge, too afraid to return to their blood-soaked country.

Here are a few of their stories. CLICK the image below to see Christian’s Report.

For more information please check out.. The UNHCR Jordan Website

Check out Documentally’s site HERE

Here’s some audio from Documentally taken during his recent project with the UNHCR to cover the Refugee crisis in Jordan

Click on the image above to come up to date with Documentally’s UNHCR Project regarding the Iraqi Refugee Crisis in Jordan

Here are the latest images from Christian Payne’s recent visit to Amman, Jordan to cover the plight of the Iraqi Refugees.

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For those following Christian Payne’s project in Amman, Jordan here are the latest images:

Here’s Christian Payne’s Recent Blog Update on his trip to Amman and the plight of Iraqi Refugees.

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This podcast is an interview with Christian Payne aka “Documentally”. Christian is a Photographer and Blogger and has recently accepted a project funded by UNHCR to photograph the plight of Iraqi refugees in Jordan.

I managed to get in touch with Christian to find our what exactly is the project about and more importantly what the Refugees are enduring.

To find our more about the Iraqi Refugee crisis in Jordan and how you might be able to help CLICK HERE.

Christian Payne can be found lurking on the web at:

Our Man Inside
Documentally
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