Summary
In the north of Basra province, "bullets talk," he said.
However, with security forces deployed to the country's north to battle Daesh (ISIS), Basra residents caught in the crossfire say that they feel abandoned.
That finally prompted the family to move to Basra city, away from the tribal areas.
Tribes in Basra, the only province of Iraq with access to the sea, obtained a glut of weapons when the army of late dictator Saddam Hussein withdrew from Kuwait in 1991 in a hasty retreat.
The tribal disputes have a direct impact on Basra's economy.
Sheikh Mohammad al-Zidawi, an elder of the Bu Zayd tribe, said "the wide availability of weapons" was to blame.
He is a member of a committee set up to mediate between tribes.
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