Surviving ISIS: Young Yazidi conscripts begin long path to healing
Why We Wrote This
In Syria and Iraq, our reporter met with Yazidi boys who somehow survived the horrors of forced service with ISIS. Their long journeys “home†speak to both the resilience and vulnerability of youth.
By Dominique Soguel Correspondent
DOHUK, Iraq and AMUDA, Syria
Confronted with a nephew who curls up into a ball and cries non-stop, Jihad does what many parents would do: loads him in the car, sits him on his lap, and allows him to “drive†down the roads of a dusty camp in northern Iraq in the pursuit of a fleeting moment of joy.
The internally displaced persons (IDP) camp became home to Jihad and his relatives after Islamic State militants attacked the Yazidi religious minority in the Sinjar mountain range in August 2014 – in what the embattled community remembers as its 74th genocide.
The boy crying unconsolably is Dilber. He reached what is left of his family in mid-March after fleeing Al-Baghouz, a speck of land on the banks of the Euphrates in Syria where ISIS suffered defeat at the hands of a U.S.-backed coalition of Kurdish and Arab forces.
Read more at: https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2019/0404/Surviving-ISIS-Young-Yazidi-conscripts-begin-long-path-to-healing
Okay, good article, couldn't he have a name other than Jihad?
