Chapter 9 Prisoners Part 2

So can we start at the camp?

We just described what is this place and why are we there?

So about a week after Mosul was liberated, you and I drove north to these refugee camps

where the remnants of the Yazidi community are now living.

These camps are basically cities of tents where entire families are living under a plastic

or a canvas rough.

And we had come to this camp in particular because we had heard that two young Yazidi women

who had managed to survive three years in ISIS's hands had just that morning been reunited

with their families.

We met my friend Falal who had agreed to translate for us and he walked us to the specific

tent where the two women had just been brought.

And as we reached the tent, we noticed that there was a crowd gather.

I saw somebody with a tray of soft drinks, I saw somebody else with a basket of clothes,

somebody else was bringing food.

He's crying this man.

Why is he crying?

Do you think?

It was very sad three years.

It was essentially the community coming to Rally and to welcome back two members that

they surely thought were lost.

We were led to the tent and I realized right away that we had no business being there.

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