Niatak is an Afghan refugee camp in Iran's southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan Province, near the Iranian city of Zahedan and close to the Afghan border. In 2001 the camp was described as holding 5,000 refugees,Z magazine, Volume 14. Institute for Social and Cultural Communications, 2001 while a 1998 report cites 7,000.World Refugee Survey 1998. U.S. Committee for Refugees, 1998
A journalist notes that Afghan tribal and sectarian conflicts continued within the camp, particularly between the Pashtun and Hazara ethno-religious groups. The camp was also the site of filming by Mohsen Makhmalbaf for much of his 2001 film Kandahar, set in Afghanistan.
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