Fears mount for abandoned children of Iraq’s Isis suspects
Ali Saeed was still asleep when men with guns barged into his tent in a displaced persons camp in northern Iraq this month. Iraqi security forces had come for his mother, part of a sweeping campaign to detain and arrest suspected members or supporters of Isis, the Sunni extremist militant group that once ruled a […]Chloe Cornish writes for Financial Times:
Ali Saeed was still asleep when men with guns barged into his tent in a displaced persons camp in northern Iraq this month.
Iraqi security forces had come for his mother, part of a sweeping campaign to detain and arrest suspected members or supporters of Isis, the Sunni extremist militant group that once ruled a swath of territory in Syria and Iraq but has since been beaten back by local and international forces.
The detention of thousands of suspected Isis members or supporters has left children such as Ali without guardians, worsening the traumatic ordeal children have suffered during the conflict, and raising concerns that neglect, ostracisation and opaque justice processes could leave them prey to radicalisation.
