Simply a couple of women, one man, a couple boys and two teenaged girls enjoys returned to Trinidad, that’s a little count as compared to hundreds who possess gone back to European countries

Centered on present conversations I have had having safeguards offer in Trinidad and you can journalists on to the ground from inside the Syria, I imagine that we now have 50 to help you 60 Trini minors already into the detention inside Syria and Iraq. This could seem like a leading profile, however it seems that the vast majority of one’s Trini contingent in the Syria have been minors.

According to “Concerned Muslims of T&T,” there are 40 Trini children and 16 Trini women in the Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria alone. One detainee at the camp, possibly from Trinidad, told a Sky News reporter in February that there were at least 90 Trini children in Syria. This may be an exaggeration, but several journalists who have visited Al-Hol have told me that the number quoted by the “Concerned Muslims” group sounds plausible.

Thus far the T&T government, like any West claims, has shown little political tend to in the looking to address this matter and it has not yet even publicly recognized that there exists Trini people throughout the Al-Hol go camping. Continue reading →