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1. It was #Holi on 11th March 1990 when I travelled from Jammu to Delhi. Iād unfamiliar faces, smells, sights, behaviours, language&environment around me.
I was traveling but I was not on a vacation. This was the second phase in my #Exodus journey #KashmiriHindu #MyStory
I was traveling but I was not on a vacation. This was the second phase in my #Exodus journey #KashmiriHindu #MyStory
2. As we neared Delhi, some people started to lower the glass windows which I found puzzling as the weather was nice and breezy. But I soon realised it when I saw water balloons bursting on the window with coloured water designing the glass temporarily.
#Memories #LostChildhood
#Memories #LostChildhood
3. This was my 1st tryst with Holi celebrations. It was celebrated in Jammu but never in #Kashmir & it seemed fascinating to me as a kid. Since Jan 1990, we like lakhs of #Hindus from Kashmir had undergone immense mental, financial&psychological turmoil due to #IslamicTerrorism
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Lost Childhood: The Trauma of growing up in Nigerian IDP camps
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@NigeriaGov #LostChildhood
Lost Childhood: The Trauma of growing up in Nigerian IDP camps
Read here: bit.ly/3k9if37
@NigeriaGov #LostChildhood
Fourteen-year-old Samaila Abdulrahman arrived Malkhoi Camp in 2014 tucked by the side of his aged grandmother, both saddled with all their worldly belongings after a journey of 30 kilometres from Gwoza, Borno to Yola, Adamawa State. @ProfZulum bit.ly/3k9if37
The teenager had just witnessed the death of his father who tried to flee from Boko Haram dressed as a woman. Provoked by his audacity to outsmart them with a feminine camouflage, he was killed. #LostChildhood #NorthernNigeria
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WATCH OUT š: #LOSTCHILDHOOD: The Trauma of growing up in Nigerian IDP camps, by @NellyAting
FOURTEEN-yr-old Samaila Abdulrahman
witnessed the death of his father who tried to flee from #BokoHaram dressed as a woman. The insurgents killed him because he wanted to outsmart them.
FOURTEEN-yr-old Samaila Abdulrahman
witnessed the death of his father who tried to flee from #BokoHaram dressed as a woman. The insurgents killed him because he wanted to outsmart them.
Despite his loss, he wants to continue life, become a doctor, so he can help wounded people.
But #COVID19 has disrupted his plan like that of other 400, 000 children who arrived at various camps in #Maiduguri, Yobe, Gombe, and Adamawa at the ages of 8, 9, 10.
#LOSTCHILDHOOD
But #COVID19 has disrupted his plan like that of other 400, 000 children who arrived at various camps in #Maiduguri, Yobe, Gombe, and Adamawa at the ages of 8, 9, 10.
#LOSTCHILDHOOD
Many had dropped out of school to either marry, joined suicide bombers, or were forced into labour.
Umar Maikif, 16 desires to become a soldier. But his brother Ahmadu is the only help he has.
#BokoHaram #LOSTCHILDHOOD
Umar Maikif, 16 desires to become a soldier. But his brother Ahmadu is the only help he has.
#BokoHaram #LOSTCHILDHOOD
