ISIS scars remain | Opinion
1:30 AM on Jun 5, 2022 CDT
Wansa tells me softly that the abortions took place during all stages of pregnancy, including very late-term — sometimes just weeks or days before the due date. “These were doctors working for ISIS, in the interest of ISIS. But [the women] didn’t get any care after that,” Wansa explains. “This left them with a lack of hope.”
Yet their doctrine is that to be Yazidi; one must be born Yazidi. Converts are not accepted. And as per cultural custom and Iraqi law, the child must take on the father’s religion, which in the ISIS era, is Islam. The choices are all horrific for those carrying children, and decisions are often made for the young women, even when they do not want an abortion.
Activists are slowly starting to speak out, stressing the need for more psychological help and guidance from the international community. Government-run rehabilitation centers have been established in Baghdad, Mosul and Duhok. But advocates complain they are insufficient. A prominent portion of Yazidis with children, Wansa continues, remain in the sprawling al-Hol displacement camp in the arid Syrian plains. It’s a dilapidated, broken place overstuffed with more than 39,000 displaced, many of them ISIS widows and children subject to further radicalization, and a breeding ground for additional international security threats.
“No one cares; no one is working on this,” one high-ranking Iraqi Minister of Parliament informs me. “Politicians have other priorities.” Some are so brainwashed that they do not want to be found. Stockholm syndrome runs rampant according to al-Hussein Chfat al-Tameemi, a Baghdad-based investigative judge leading many hundreds of ISIS membership trials. As one example, he details the story of one arrest in which a captive — a young Yazidi woman with an infant who witnessed the man kill her own parents — was crying and begging authorities not to take the fighter away.
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