Exclusive: A Yazidi boy forced to fight with IS could be reunited with his family in Australia

SBS understands the Australian government is considering a visa application from a teenager who was kidnapped and trained as a child soldier by the group.

Yazidi boy forced to fight with IS could be reunited with his family in Australia

The teenager, who says he is 18, told SBS Kurdish via video call in Kurdish-Kurmanji: “They treated me unkindly by beating me a lot, their treatment was inhuman Source: SBS

The Australian government is understood to be considering whether to allow a Yazidi mother resettled in Australia to reunite with her teenage son, who was taken from her five years ago in Iraq and forced to fight with the so-called Islamic State.

Shvan* was recently freed after spending almost five years being held by the terrorist group and is now with his extended family in a refugee camp in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region.

Read more via SBS. 


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Published 30 July 2019 12:58pm
Updated 12 August 2022 3:28pm
By Mayada (May) Kordy Khalil, Jarni Blakkarly
Presented by Ali Bahnasawy
Source: SBS


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