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Laughter, screaming and diaper changes in a sheltered accommodation for Yazidi mothers and their children, somewhere in Iraq.
– I am so happy, I did not think I would see my son again, says a couple of mothers.
The reunion, the first of its kind, was happy but also shocking and difficult, the mothers and children had not met in a year and a half and several of the mothers burst into uncontrollable tears. The children sat in awe in front of women they did not remember.
Young mothers, who experienced the rape and horror of slavery, are now trying to repair their relationship with their children, while the entire Yazidi community is against them. On social media, images of babies wrapped in the Islamic State’s black flag are posted with questions about how anyone might want to get back these murdered children, children of men who killed and enslaved the Yazidis.
A Yazidi political leader confirms to Ekot that mothers and children are in danger, that there are those who want to kill children.
Two people, former US diplomat Peter Galbraith and Swedish-Kurdish doctor Nemam Ghafouri, negotiated and worked with the Kurdish authorities in Syria and Iraq for a year to obtain the reunification permit.
Nemam Ghafouri finds it outrageous that the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states that children should not be separated from their mothers, does not apply to these women, who are victims of Islamic State terrorism.
– When foreign countries go to pick up IS children, they say “no, they should not be separated from their mothers”, according to the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, but when it comes to these poor victims, that does not apply. It is double standards and hypocrisy at the highest level: why are the children and mothers of the Islamic State protected by UN laws and regulations, but not these victims who have suffered so much? says Dr. Nemam Ghafouri.
