| It looks like Tunisia doesn’t want’em. If they did, the kids would have been brought back by now. |
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
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fighters killed in conflict areas.
Observatory head Anwar Awlad Ali stated during a presser in the capital that 104 children are stuck in Syria, 58 of whom are girls, 78 were born in Syria and 88 under 13 years old. He indicated that 65% of their fathers are dead, 25% in prison and 5% deported to Tunisian prisons.
Awlad Ali said that dozens of Tunisian children are still trapped in Libya, kept with their mothers in Libyan prisons. He added that more efforts are needed to help these victims who chose neither their parents nor where to live.
At the same conference, Awlad Ali called on the Tunisian authorities to apply the constitution and international agreements related to children by respecting the right of return for all Tunisians.
Halima al-Juwayni, member of the Tunisian Human Rights League, stressed to al-Monitor that these children must be returned to their families in Tunisia and not be held accountable for what their parents have done. She called on the state to establish treatment facilities to rehabilitate these children.
She added that regardless of whether the Tunisian state has the capabilities to provide for the children and their reintegration into society, they must be brought back home.
In a Feb. 28 protest in front of the parliament, parents of Lions of Islam who died in Syria called on the Tunisian state to bring home their grandchildren.
Human Rights Watch reported Feb. 6, "Tunisian authorities should now do their utmost to promptly bring home more than 36 other children of [IS] suspects who remain stranded in Libya, as well as 160 others believed to be held in camps and prisons in Syria and Iraq."
Amna Guellali, Tunisia director at Human Rights Watch, was quoted in the report as saying, "Tunisia should move swiftly to follow this positive step with further action to bring home its children trapped in squalid camps and prisons in war-torn countries."
Since Feb. 12, 2019, Human Rights Watch has accused Tunisian officials of "dragging their feet on helping bring home Tunisian children held without charge in foreign camps and prisons for families of IS."