Dive into the heart of darkness and come back with a story of life and humanity.
This is the successful bet of journalist Pascale Bourgaux, director, and co-author with Kurdish filmmaker Mohammad Shaikhow, of the documentary
Hawar, our banished children
*, on the tragedy of children born from the rape of Yazidi women by
Daesh jihadists.
After eight years of a difficult investigation, Pascale Bourgaux reveals the taboo of taboos: the silence that reigns over the fate of little girls and boys born from rape, "invisibilized", abandoned and rejected even when their martyred mothers would like to live with them (other Yazidi women rejecting children who remind them of their tormentors).
This tragedy within a tragedy further highlights the horror and scale of the crimes perpetrated by Daesh against the Yazidis, and the responsibility of the terrorist organization and its members.
Because the darkness is indeed that spread almost ten years ago by the Islamic State in the region...
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