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Al-Rustumiya settlement on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad is home to many people displaced first by Saddam Hussein's de-Arabization policies, then by the sectarian conflict of 2006-7. The settlement lacks proper sanitation and stagnation water
Heba Aly/IRIN

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