Young Iraqis Bridging the Sectarian Divide
by Louise Redvers, IRIN, Switzerland – Islamic State militants play on sectarian division as they tear Iraq apart, but a group of young Iraqi “citizen ambassadors” is trying to mend the damage by promoting a message of tolerance and peace.
Rasha al-Samarai is one of nearly 2.8 million Iraqis to have fled their homes in the last 16 months as IS has swallowed up a quarter of the country and large swathes of neighbouring Syria.
The 30-year-old left the city of Tikrit with her family when IS took it over last June, slaughtering more than 1,500 Iraqi Air Force cadets in the process.
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