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From the Faily Kurds life Truth is stranger than fiction

This story is real and is taken from a little Faily Kurdish girl tragical experiment …

that happened during the Baath party rule in Iraq. Liqa'a Jalal was a little girl living happily with her simple family. She was in the primary school 1st class. When she returned home once she was surprised to see a horrible sight going on at home. That her dear grandmother was dying and she cried bitterly for losing her was somehow an acceptable truth, but what confused and terrified her most was the scene of some ruling party followers seizing her father and torturing him openly at the door of his house. It was an unbearable scene for a little girl afflicted by losing two of her dearest family members simultaneously. The disaster did not finish with those events .It

was escalating towards new peaks to mercilessly crush the poor family and the poor girl . The racist soldiers of Baath party who was called the (popular army) took her father to unknown place. He was accused as to be one of the opposition supporters. So, Liqa'a knew later that they killed him and nobody knew where his body or grave where.

The family together with other Kurdish families from their neighborhood which was called (Dahhana) in Baghdad center were still targeted by those criminal security followers. They took all the women and children to a prison and tortured them. Liqa'a said:" I cannot forget the scene of my prison mate Layla who was completely undressed by the warders, and I could not know what happened to her after that .Then they took the women from the place where we spent our night." Next day they collected 18 girls and 6 boys from the prison and put them in a vehicle to begin a long journey deep in the desert. Liqa'a Jalal was among them. She said:  "The vehicle took us in a 10 hours journey to a small desert town .We were astonished when we found ourselves in well furnished school rooms. They provided us with good food as if we were waiting for an occasion through which we had to appear in good health." The dictatorial authorities used to make queer agreements with other governments. Liqa'a Jalal explained:" After spending four days in that furnished place some rich men from the Gulf came and began to choose boys and girls from the group to be taken with them to their families. They were from the Arab United Emirates and they were polite people .The family who accepted me to live with, were so kind that I regarded them as my second family without forgetting my original family." Thus the Iraqi government planned to sell the Iraqi citizens completing the broader plan of human rights violation and persecution. Liqa'a uncovered the plan:" The Emirati "father" told me that he used to give the Iraqi ambassador four thousand U.S dollars a month for having me in his house ".

She spent several years in U.A.E (Sharqa emirate) but she did not stop searching for her original family. By means of the internet she attempted to ask for them and finally she succeeded to contact one of the civil society organizations who helped her to find the (remaining relatives). Her Emirati family helped her. They came with her to Turkey for that purpose. Liqa'a found that her mother died of sorrow four months after her departure while her father was executed by the authorities of the regime while she did not know anything about the fate of her little brother.