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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Kenneth Mohammed

Trinidad and Tobago is failing children locked in Syrian camps – it must bring them home

Child in foreground holds a Rubik's cube; other children in background in soft focus
Children of foreign-born Islamic State fighters at a rehabilitation centre outside Qamishli, north-eastern Syria, in March this year. Photograph: Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images

When is it acceptable for a government to lock its citizens out of their country, to leave them stranded overseas, trampling the constitutional and human rights of those who pay their salaries? During a pandemic perhaps?

When is it acceptable to disown nationals, especially children who are victims of misguided decisions made by their brainwashed parents? When their parents left to join Islamic State perhaps?

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