Former Western ISIS female members want to return home
Western female members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are coming at the center of debates.
The collapse of ISIS
has rendered a large number of female organization members homeless. They are
now scattered in the different refugee camps in northern Syria. This makes it
necessary for the international community to find a framework for the presence of
these women, but without causing harms to the interests of states in the Middle
East region.
Major states are
divided on former ISIS female members. Some of these states had readmitted
these females into them, along with their children. Others, however, continue
to refuse their return. The same states are afraid that the return of former
ISIS female members would make it necessary for them to stretch their security
preparations to ensure that these former terrorists would not carry out
attacks.
Nevertheless, ISIS
women in the refugee camps in Syria demand returning to their home countries
every now and then.
Life after
ISIS
"The Return: Life
After ISIS" documentary, directed by Spanish director Alba Sotorra Clua, premiered at the online Texas-based South By Southwest festival.
The film
documents the life of female ISIS members in refugee camps controlled by the
Kurds in northern Syria after the collapse of the organization.
The
former ISIS members call on their governments to give them a second chance to
return to their countries and reintegrate into their original societies.
