Dozens of women from foreign countries expressed their desperate desire to return to their homelands after about 5 years had passed since they had been in two camps in northern Syria, according to a report published by the “Network.”Sky News” British.
Al-Hawl Camp and Al-Roj Camp were established under the supervision of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to accommodate tens of thousands of women and their children who were married or associated with ISIS fighters.
The network spoke to what it described as “ISIS brides”, who are British, Australian, Belgian, German, Dutch and Caribbean women, all of whom insisted that they and their children were being punished for the sins of their partners and parents.
Many claimed that they were raped or tricked into going to Syria, and in some cases were trafficked.
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The deprivation of the British woman, Shamima Begum, of her nationality raised many questions, especially since the latter had joined the terrorist organization, when she was 10 years old, in 2015, which made the defense team say that she had been “recruited” for sexual trafficking. .
Among the foreign women are citizens of Western countries, who are often present with their children in Al-Roj camp, where they have been without electricity for the past month amid extremely harsh living and climatic conditions, according to the network.
An Australian mother of three children said on condition of anonymity: Because she is still completing the legal procedures to return her to her homeland: “We are human beings, not animals in the end.”
She continued: “The animal will not be able to withstand these conditions. My son almost died last year… and my government is aware of that.”
She added: “Not only children, but most of the women here are being punished because of decisions made on their behalf… decisions that we did not make ourselves… Despite our continuous communication with our government, it refuses to acknowledge that its citizens are still trapped here in the camps.”
Many countries witnessed the travel of their citizens to the Middle East in response to the call of ISIS to establish the so-called “Caliphate State” in 2014.
The terrorist group continued to control vast areas of Syria and Iraq, imposing harsh and extremist laws and regulations, and carrying out horrific killings against civilians and kidnapping and raping women and young girls.
ISIS militants slaughtered thousands of Yazidi men because they considered them worshipers of Satan, and they kidnapped and captured thousands of Yazidi women, brutalizing them for years.
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More than 2,000 Yazidi women are still missing, as they are believed to be still in captivity by ISIS sleeper cells 10 years after the massacres against that religious minority, which the United Nations classified as “genocide,” according to the network.
“What is the fault of our children?”
In another story, a British woman from Leeds told how her husband, who is from Birmingham, convinced her to go to Syria, but he was killed there.
She explained that her 7-year-old son, Adam, was born in Raqqa Governorate, which was the main stronghold of ISIS in Syria.
She said of her decision: “It was a grave mistake, but I want to return home. There are no schools here for children and no doctors… and my son Adam is innocent and has no fault.”
The British woman also requested that her name not be revealed on the advice of lawyers, but she appealed to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to allow her to return, saying that she was ready to stand trial and face any legal consequences.
She pleaded, saying: “Let’s go back. My family, my mother, my father and my brothers all live in England and I want to go back and face trial there… I have been here for 5 years. I am very tired and sick.”
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After acknowledging that the Yazidis were subjected to “genocidal practices” at the hands of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, the members of that minority are still suffering from “religious persecution and societal marginalization,” while Yazidi activists reveal to the “Al-Hurra” website their demands to “return to their homeland from which they were displaced.” “.
This woman was paralyzed on one side after the car she was traveling in was hit in the town of Baghouz in Syria, which was the last stronghold of ISIS in Syria.
UN experts said in a report last year, “The mass detention of children in northeastern Syria because of what their parents may do is a flagrant violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibits all forms of discrimination and punishment of a child on the basis of the status, activities, opinions or beliefs of his or her parents.”
In the same context, Cassandra Bodart, a Belgian citizen with blond hair, said that she realized shortly after her arrival in Syria that she had made a grave mistake.
She added: “A long time ago, I tried to escape, but my husband prevented me and threatened to kill me if I tried to do so.”
As for Zakia Kajar, who lived in Germany for 29 years, where she had a job and gave birth to two children there, she explained that her husband deceived her and made her come to Raqqa in Syria.
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The human rights NGO Reprieve reported on Friday that nearly two-thirds of British women and children detained in camps in northeastern Syria are victims of human trafficking, denouncing London’s “abandonment” of them.
Kajar tried to escape twice, saying: “But they arrested me and beat me… Therefore, I stayed with my husband for 4 months before he died while I was pregnant… What can I do?”
She said that she was forced to marry another man that she did not know or love, and she gave birth to two other children, stressing that her youngest daughter, who was 5 years old, did not know any life outside the walls of Al-Roj camp.
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2024-02-26 11:17:04
