Yazidi Survivor Starts Over in Nebraska
By Clarion Project Wednesday, January 30, 2019
In Nebraska, 33-year-old Shireen Jardho Alhanto starts her life over as a Yazidi survivor. Lincoln, Nebraska is home to the largest U.S. Yazidi community, but even in a new country with a fresh start, Shireen Alhanto has arrives with many missing pieces.
Alhanto has already lost much of her family to ISIS terror. According to the account Shireen shared with KETV Newswatch 7’s Michelle Bandur, ISIS captured 47 of her family members on August 3, 2014. Seventeen members of her family are still missing and Shireen has had to share a grim detail of her life with ISIS to help her family find their way back to each other:
“I told my family members I have my name tattooed on my hand, so you guys will know who I am,†she said.
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