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.