British ISIS bride Shamima Begum's wall of graffiti in Syria's Roj camp reveals her despair and longing for freedom. Despite campaigning for repatriation to the UK, her future remains uncertain. The texts, including quotes from Sartre and Beckett, highlight the sense of entrapment and hopelessness she experiences in the camp.
'From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse, a hundred suspicions don't make a proof.'
The 25-year-old is now campaigning to be repatriated back home to stand trial in the UK - something the Kurdish-led authorities of the camp say is the responsibility of the British government. I recently travelled to Camp Roj in the hopes of meeting Ms Begum, and I saw firsthand the wall of graffiti as I attempted to cajole her out of the tent to speak with me.
There is anger in them, exhaustion and even humour, evident from one note that reads: 'PIES Welcome '. Is this a rejection of the ideology she once embraced - or perhaps a reluctant recognition of the inescapable shadow cast by the extremist group's black flag?I had initially expected to meet her in a small outhouse at the camp's entrance, but she slammed the door in my face when she learned I was a journalist.
For years her whereabouts were unknown, but in 2019 she was discovered by journalists in Camp Al-Hol - Syria's largest refugee camp holding displaced ISIS fighters after the group was defeated. She was controversially stripped of her British citizenship by then Foreign Secretary Sajid Javid, and left adrift in Camp Al-Hol.
This, to me, was a clear comment on her yearslong battle to regain her citizenship and the unanimous judgments cast against her, sealing her fate in the dust of Camp Roj. Shamima Begum is just one of tens of thousands of people from the UK, Europe, and beyond who are detained in Al-Hol and Roj, as well as other makeshift prisons dedicated to adult male ISIS fighters.
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