Orphaned Canadian girl, 5, finally on way to Canada from Syrian camp for suspected ISIL supporters – By Adrian Humphreys (National Post) / Oct 5 2020
The girl’s mother and father probably moved to the area to join ISIL in Iraq and Syria, making her case politically delicate despite an obvious humanitarian imperative
A five-year-old Canadian orphan who was stuck in a refugee camp in Syria is finally on her way to Canada to join her uncle, a sudden deviation from Ottawa on repatriating Canadian families languishing in camps for suspected ISIL supporters.
As celebration for the girl known as Amira rang out from family and human rights groups, so too did an urgent question: What about the other 25 Canadian children stuck in Syrian camps — those with politically less palatable prospects because they still have their parents with a suspected ISIL past.
Early last year, when she was four, Amira was found walking alone on a road in war-torn northeastern Syria. Her parents and her siblings were killed, likely in an airstrike during the fight against the Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS.
Although born in Syria, Amira is a Canadian citizen because both of her parents were Canadians. Her mother and father probably moved to the area to join ISIL in Iraq and Syria, making her case politically delicate despite an obvious humanitarian imperative.
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