Posted on Jun 6, 2019
In Syria, An Orphanage Cares For Children Born To Yazidi Mothers Enslaved By ISIS
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A little girl with enormous blue eyes watches, mesmerized, as Fajriya Khaled gives a tiny 3-month-old baby a bottle.
The girl is 1 1/2. She wears a white party dress with sequins and pink roses on the bodice, and a pink sash. On her wrist is a string bracelet — perhaps for luck. In her ears are the gold earrings she was wearing when she was brought to the orphanage as a baby — a sign that, although abandoned, she was not unloved.
She is one of 41 children in this orphanage in northeastern Syria born to ISIS fighters and the Iraqi Yazidi women they enslaved when ISIS ruled over large parts of Iraq and Syria, starting in 2014.
Forced by Iraq's Yazidi community to give up the children, and told that the children have been given to Kurdish Syrian families to adopt, many of these mothers don't know the orphanage exists.
The girl is 1 1/2. She wears a white party dress with sequins and pink roses on the bodice, and a pink sash. On her wrist is a string bracelet — perhaps for luck. In her ears are the gold earrings she was wearing when she was brought to the orphanage as a baby — a sign that, although abandoned, she was not unloved.
She is one of 41 children in this orphanage in northeastern Syria born to ISIS fighters and the Iraqi Yazidi women they enslaved when ISIS ruled over large parts of Iraq and Syria, starting in 2014.
Forced by Iraq's Yazidi community to give up the children, and told that the children have been given to Kurdish Syrian families to adopt, many of these mothers don't know the orphanage exists.
In Syria, An Orphanage Cares For Children Born To Yazidi Mothers Enslaved By ISIS
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A tough situation but I'm glad the children appear to be well cared for. I hope this continues. So many times the money runs out over time. The children may have to wait until adulthood to go looking for their families. At least it sounds like they are far from ISIS.
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Well, when your born into a culture that treats women and children as property, all you can do is feel bad. After multiple deployments to that region, forcing our culture onto theirs is futile, realizing theirs is a door to a world beyond (forgotten) ours. My only hope is that we in our self righteous arrogance refuse to open.
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