Yazidi boy in Winnipeg once held by ISIS asks for meeting with Justin Trudeau
Yazidi boy in Winnipeg once held by ISIS launches campaign for meeting with Trudeau
Source https://globalnews.ca/news/3979015/yazidi-boy-winnipeg-isis-justin-trudeau/
A Yazidi boy in Winnipeg who endured three years as a captive in Iraq is asking for a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Thirteen-year-old Emad Mishko Tamo was reunited with his family in the city last year, and he thanks Canada in a video posted on Facebook by the Yazidi Association of Manitoba.
He also holds up a sign asking to be a voice for other Yazidi children still in captivity, and he asks Trudeau to meet with him.
WATCH: Yazidi boy captured by ISIS reunited with his mother at Winnipeg airport.
Emad was separated from his mother after the Islamic State group displaced thousands of members of the Kurdish-minority Yazidis in 2014.
He was freed last summer in the Iraqi city of Mosul.
His mother had been living in Winnipeg as a refugee, but had no idea if her son was still alive until a relative saw him in a photo on social media.
Hadji Hesso with the Yazidi association says Emad is now in school in Winnipeg and is learning English.
He says Emad’s father — as well as one of his brothers — remain unaccounted for.
WATCH: Winnipeg Yazidi refugee finds son via social media
Source https://globalnews.ca/news/3979015/yazidi-boy-winnipeg-isis-justin-trudeau/
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