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Only? And whom else should be offered help? Helping the victims is understandable for all. Nevertheless, due to many reasons people and organizations do not want to involve in the aid for those who defend these people, who have scampered away from the Daesh or flee from them. One you have told me something that has strongly stuck in my head – that only humanitarian aid is not enough. If you held a child, and you do not put a soldier beside him to defend him, it is immoral. What have you meant? I want to be clear. If you have taken somebody to a safe place, have evacuated him and you look after him, I can understand that. But a situation there, just beside the front line, is such that help, if ever anyone gets it, it is received by the refugees. But nobody cares that people who defend them have nothing to eat and wear sneakers full of holes. Maybe, it is rather cruelly told, but imagine that you buy food for children. And three days later somebody comes to the village and kills these kids. And whom do you help? On the one hand those, caught up by the ISIS, that is simply the victims, just those refugees. And on the other hand also those who do everything to reduce a number of victims as far as possible. Thanks to a fact that I have a small charity fund I can allow myself for a lile bit of flexibility. I operate in liaise with the people, who live there. They know a reality in the best manner. In June I concluded agreements on a cooperation with the organizations, which function there. How do you do this? How do you give them? For example, we get to know that somewhere is a seriously ill child. Or a woman who has been knock her all teeth out in the captivity. Or a family, who has been bought out and has no place to live. We do not have inflexible projects we must adhere. I am given a signal from Iraq. I commence the whole process, which ends when I receive the bills, reports and selements of the given aid from there. You have told that while going to Iraq, you have wanted to know where are the Christians who fight with the Daesh. Why just the Christians? The Muslims do not do it? Certainly, they does. But the Muslims have much more greater capabilities to operate. As a majority in the state they are given support. So, it is like that, much more aid reaches to this Muslim „army", which fights with the ISIS and it is more regular? You know, that's the army. It has its Defense Ministry, it has its command. What's more, the Christian units, which we help, also report to the Peshmerga. A difference in equipment and training comes from this that after giving a consent to establishing the units, they have not been equipped. The Christians have been allowed to organize legally and they have been proposed a training, which have lasted for three weeks. Do you think, as a soldier from the modern state, they are able to fight with the ISIS? Yeas, they are. Because they are just doing it. They possess an essential feature needed by every soldier – motivation. What is their greatest problem, what shortcomings bother them the most? It would be the most medially to say that the weapon, but at that very moment its prices have dropped radically in this region lately. Well, but probably everybody knows that the weapon is not the only one thing www.fragoutmag.com

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