Fire damages Syrian tent home of Canadian woman, children seeking to return home
A Canadian mother struggling to leave a Syrian detention camp with her six children was dealt another setback this week when a fire damaged their tent home, an advocacy group says.
“The mom is in really bad shape in terms of being able to communicate or function,” Bain said in an interview.The family is among the many foreign nationals in Syrian camps and prisons run by Kurdish forces that reclaimed the war-torn region from the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.Bain has spoken with the family’s neighbours in al-Roj camp, and said she informed Global Affairs Canada of the fire.
Bain, whose organization helps families with loved ones caught up in violent extremist groups, has been in regular touch with the woman for months. However, she has not heard directly from her since the fire.“I think the physical injuries are secondary to the to the trauma it’s put the mom through,” Bain said. “She’s at her wit’s end anyway, as you can well imagine.
Greenspon said the government wrote on June 21 that the woman has “extremist ideological beliefs” that may lead her to act violently, and it could not ensure that no such conduct would occur in Canada.
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