Life after ISIS: war victims require more support
Tens of thousands of victims of the Islamic State, many women and children, have been left abandoned after their suffering. Society’s attitude towards the victims needs to change, activists and experts warned at the Women: A Gate to Freedom conference in the Kurdistan Region on Sunday. “The society doesn’t accept the victim as a normal […]Arina Moradi writes for Rudaw:
Tens of thousands of victims of the Islamic State, many women and children, have been left abandoned after their suffering. Society’s attitude towards the victims needs to change, activists and experts warned at the Women: A Gate to Freedom conference in the Kurdistan Region on Sunday.
“The society doesn’t accept the victim as a normal person. This is especially true for the women who have been raped by Daesh gunmen,” psychologist Yusuf Othman told Rudaw English.
He further explained how individuals judge victims while imagining their own scenario of what might have happened to people under ISIS rule, including rape, torture, and sexual enslaving of female victims.
Othman said that women who escaped from ISIS continue to be victimized.
