After escaping imprisonment Nihad Alawsi wants the world to recognise whats happening to girls in Iraq,and why coming home isn’t the halt of the ordeal“It was a lovely life. I had a gigantic family and there was always a lot of laughter,” says 16-year-old Nihad Alawsi, or speaking approximately her Yazidi community in northern Iraq. “I’m one of 18 siblings,but I was always my dad’s favourite.” She remembers the weddings, when the girls would glean their hair and fabricate (to make up, invent)-up done, or the days spent as a little girl drawing pictures of the flowers breaking through the Iraqi landscape.
Then came the day that cut short her childhood. Speaking via a translator,Nihad’s breathing quickens as she describes “that black morning” when 28 members of her family and others in her village fell into the hands of Isis. At 15, Nihad became one of the thousands of victims in the largest single mass kidnap of women and girls this century. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com