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VIDEO: Oil spills ravage farmland in northern Iraq

"What is happening is that oil has damaged all that the land can give, every seed we plant gets damaged … This land has become useless," says one farmer.

Farmers criticise the state for not doing enough to clean up the mess. AFP photo
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

AL-MEAIBDI - In the northern Salaheddine province of Iraq, puddles of black crude oil dot the ground, contaminating vast swathes of farmland.

"What is happening is that oil

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