Mosul’s children return to school after ISIS defeat: ‘We are not giving up on learning’
Three years ago when Rauiya Saed was in the third grade, ISIS militants took over her neighborhood in West Mosul and closed the school. But at home, the Iraqi girl kept on reading and writing. In her diary, she wrote about life under ISIS -- about other children who were starving while living under siege and about […]Lena Masri writes for ABC News:
Three years ago when Rauiya Saed was in the third grade, ISIS militants took over her neighborhood in West Mosul and closed the school. But at home, the Iraqi girl kept on reading and writing.
In her diary, she wrote about life under ISIS -- about other children who were starving while living under siege and about the restrictions the terrorist group imposed on her family's way of life.
“I was seeing children who were dying from hunger and couldn’t even get milk to drink,” Rauiya, 11, told ABC News by phone in her native Arabic. “I wanted to play with my friends, but I couldn’t. I wanted to go to the market and wear colorful clothes, but I couldn’t. We needed a lot of things and were prevented from the simplest things under ISIS.”
