"My family decided we needed to leave the country after my sister was shot in my mum's arms", 16 year old Abdulrahman Alsahar says, recalling his childhood in Syria. Some of his friends were shot on their way to school and never made it back home. He came to Djanogly Academy in Nottingham on his bike. Olimpia Zagnat reports.
"I still have nightmares about it", said the teenager. It was in the impoverished rural southern Syria that the first major anti-government protests occurred in March 2011.
Abdulrahman remembers moving from one village to another with his parents, six sisters and four brother. He recalled the nightmare, and with a shy smile added: "I did not have a childhood."
