Rahima remembers the demonstrations during her childhood in Aleppo. Her teachers organised them, she never questioned what was going on.
“They drew the Syrian flag on our cheeks, gave us signs to hold and told us, standing in front of our school, to shout out that we loved Assad.”
We learned, she told Euronews, the only way to live in Assad s dictatorship is by accepting the repression.
When Rahima was 11 a bomb dropped next to her classroom. Her dad, a Kurdish doctor, came and picked her up and said it would be best to go to their cabin in Afrin in northern Syria for a few weeks until the situation in Aleppo bettered. They stayed there for three years.
Danish authorities have been accused of putting the futures of dozens of refugee children at risk by threatening to expel them to Syria, despite warnings that it is not safe to do so.
In a statement released on Wednesday, the children s rights group Save the Children said it was deeply concerned to discover that at least 70 refugee children are at risk of being expelled to Syria.
Denmark sparked an outcry after it announced plans to strip Syrian refugees from Damascus of temporary protections allowing them to stay in the country after officials determined that it was safe for them to return home.