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.
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.
