Frag Out! Magazine
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siblings and became a man of the house. This young man is their only guardian, the only protector, the only hope for the future. Sometimes he is able to make few dinars on some sporadic jobs, nothing too serious and too stable… And yet another one, a woman that has not been living her tent for weeks. The brain tumour she was diagnosed with puts pressure on the nerves what makes it impossible for her to even get up. She will never go to the hospital. Her family is not even able to afford taking her to the hospital. Any medical procedure is a pure dream. The fate of Yezidi women There were also two pretty girls that after being held in captivity for a year said that they no longer fear death. The only thing that petrifies them is a sole thought of getting back into their hands. A very young girl, just over twenty has three children. They were her only hope when she was passed from one rapist to another for two years in cap- tivity. She has no idea where her husband is. He has not contacted her in months. The girl wraps herself up in a borrowed sweater when she talks about him. The woman is left with nothing. Nothing apart from a strong convic- tion that she should do anything she can to help her family repay the twelve thousand dollars debt that they have put themselves into to be able to ransom her. And a fourteen – year old. A fourteen year old with a nasty, inflamed scar on the palm of her hand. "With a knife they heated in flames" – she said – "Every time I did not want to go with them. Always". When, by accident, she pulled her sleeve up we have seen heaps of tiny, round burns. They were made with cigarettes. When she was captured she was only eleven. They have sold her for the first time few days after liv- ing her village. She was sold over and over again and has been losing more and more hope for the future with every "owner". She did not even want to shake hand of my male colleague. The child was too scared. We have been told that everyone who wanted to touch her so far did it only to rape and debase her. This fourteen year old girl has no dreams anymore. Surrounded by death In Quadia camp we have met a seventy year old woman whose grandchildren were murdered. Two of her daughters have killed themselves in captivity. The woman was holding on to their photos. She did not realise this but when she talked about them her body swung from back to front. Her fingers intertwined in a nervous gesture that was meant to cover both, despair and hatred. There was a little girl in Jamhesho whose spine was broken with a rifle butt and a disabled boy who howls like an animal when someone just gets near him. And a four year old girl with a skin falling off in bloody and www.fragoutmag.com