Iraq, Qayyara: On October 2016, Makhmoud, behind him one of the still burning wells.
"The first time I was surprised while smoking, they gave me a fine of 300,000 dinars, they told me it was just a warning, and the next time they would cut my head.
The same people who forbade us to smoke burned our main wealth, oil.
They exploited all our oil and sold it on the black market.
Today we have nothing, no house, no job, nor the wealth of the country: oil". Alessio Romenzi