Nuh passed away, said Edina Mulalic in a trembling voice in a voice message to her father that she sent at the beginning of February from Camp Roj in northern Syria.
“He is now in paradise,” she said of her son Nuh, a seven-and-a-half-year-old boy, explaining how he was killed in a truck accident in this camp, where, in addition to displaced Syrians, there are people, mostly women and children, who lived in the territory of the so-called Islamic state.
Female citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) with children who have been waiting for repatriation for years, in which BiHauthorities hesitate, are among them.
Thirty-four-year-old Edina has been in a closed camp, which is controlled by Kurdish forces, with her three children for six years, since the group, which was declared a terrorist by the United Nations (UN), was territorially defeated in Syria and Iraq.
The Bosnian woman and her husband are one of the tens of thousands of people from more than 60 countries who, from 2011 to 2019, joined the so-called Islamic State. Militants of this group fought against the Syrian army, but also other Syrian rebel and Kurdish groups in Syria. Edina said in a voice message that the sand truck was at the camp on February 1st. She learned about the accident in which her son was killed that day from others who were present, while she was in the tent.
“The children ran and grabbed the truck, they always do that when a car comes. The truck went backward and Nuh flew under the wheel. The man (driver) didn’t do it on purpose. You’ve never seen him, it’s not easy for you, but pull yourself together,” Edina said about the accident. After the accident, Edina and Nuh were taken to the hospital. There, however, they failed to help the boy.
He grew up, died and was buried in the camp
Little Nuh was buried where he spent his childhood – a place that the UN and numerous humanitarian organizations have assessed as a place where “constant and outrageous violations of children’s rights occur”, Slobodna Evropa reports.
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