Iraqi Gypsies squat in an abandoned military compound where they have been forced to make their home in the Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib July 12, 2003. The piles of dusty rubble, stretching across a couple of square kilometres on the western fringes of Baghdad, suggest the aftermath of a particularly devastating bombing raid in the Iraq war. [Reuters]

Iraqi gypsy children play near their former school and among rubble that was once their homes in the Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib July 12, 2003. [Reuters]

Iraqi Gypsy child sifts through discarded government files in an abandoned military compound where her family has been forced to make their home in the Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib July 12, 2003. [Reuters]