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Rises over the marshes of southern iraq what did region fade by the tigris and euphrates rivers. To people as far back as the syrians more than 5000 years ago. In the early 1990 s. Saddam hussein ordered troops to drain most of the area as punishment for a tribal uprising against him around 75 percent of the 250000 people known as the marsh arabs fled. When the dictator was toppled in 2003 many returned and demolished the dams that have deprived their homeland of water for so long the use of violence oppression to the marsh arabs suffered under the former regime are over but they say that repeated promises by government since the fall of Saddam Hussein over better access to services have never been kept they can live according to their traditions now but what i fear is exceptionally hard. Salema call their bake spread on a tiny island where her family raised buffalo she says shes seen no improvement to their lives in recent years ....