In Iraq, virus revives traumas of Daesh survivors

Arabnewsksa04 Dec, 2020News

BAJET KANDALA CAMP, Iraq: For half a decade, Zedan suffered recurring nightmares about militants overrunning his hometown in northern Iraq. The 21-year-old Yazidi was just starting to recover when COVID-19 revived his trauma. Zedan had lost several relatives when Daesh stormed into Sinjar, the rugged heartland of the Yazidi religious minority in Iraq�s northwest. The militants killed Yazidi men, took the boys as child soldiers and forced the women into sexual slavery.