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Some 11000 foreign brides are held in camps in Kurd controlled areas. Many have kids.
BBC iPlayer - Panorama - Stacey Meets the IS Brides
Only on BBC iPlayer at the moment but bound to reach Youtube sometime soon.
Powerful program, Stacey Dooley met and discussed the reasons for joining IS and predictably, the overwhelming majority of women in these camps said they had nothing to do with the IS activities - that they were in households, washing and ironing. In the second camp, a young Kurd female in charge of the camp talked about efforts to deradicalise the women and children. We saw a classroom with a Kurdish singing teacher trying to teach kids (one of whom - a year later) was shouting "Haram" at attempts to engage the kids in singing.
My overwhelming feeling at the end of this program was how to help the Kurds. They are dealing with this horrendous problem but with very little infrastructure and financial help from outside. We don't want these people back but apparently some nations are letting kids come in but only those where the parents are both dead - which raises the question of where the kids are put that do come. Are they put with muslim families when they get to a Western nation? Are they then at risk of radicalisation? Children have rights to find out about birth parents - does this bring the problem back at a later date?
4000 kids in one camp alone..
BBC iPlayer - Panorama - Stacey Meets the IS Brides
Only on BBC iPlayer at the moment but bound to reach Youtube sometime soon.
Powerful program, Stacey Dooley met and discussed the reasons for joining IS and predictably, the overwhelming majority of women in these camps said they had nothing to do with the IS activities - that they were in households, washing and ironing. In the second camp, a young Kurd female in charge of the camp talked about efforts to deradicalise the women and children. We saw a classroom with a Kurdish singing teacher trying to teach kids (one of whom - a year later) was shouting "Haram" at attempts to engage the kids in singing.
My overwhelming feeling at the end of this program was how to help the Kurds. They are dealing with this horrendous problem but with very little infrastructure and financial help from outside. We don't want these people back but apparently some nations are letting kids come in but only those where the parents are both dead - which raises the question of where the kids are put that do come. Are they put with muslim families when they get to a Western nation? Are they then at risk of radicalisation? Children have rights to find out about birth parents - does this bring the problem back at a later date?
4000 kids in one camp alone..