Syrian IDPs eager to return to SDF-controlled Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor
AYN DADAT, Syria – The small town of Ayn Dadat, at a crossroads 15km north of Manbij, bustles with the movement of people wanting to return to their homes in Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor, eager for some normal life in a country torn apart by seven years of civil war and multiple forces fighting for their vision of the future of Syria.
“Our people are in Raqqa,” where they are shepherds, one woman told Rudaw.
Her family was one of many that had been sheltering in areas west of the Euphrates River and under control of Turkey-backed elements of the Free Syrian Army.
Life there was “not good,” she said. “Airplanes would attack, and we would get displaced and then return and so on… We got really frustrated and tired.”
“Now we would like to work and lead our lives. Now we don’t know what to do,” said another man wanting to go home. “Everyone wants something different from us. By Allah, we don’t know what to do.”
“Our people are in Raqqa,” where they are shepherds, one woman told Rudaw.
Her family was one of many that had been sheltering in areas west of the Euphrates River and under control of Turkey-backed elements of the Free Syrian Army.
Life there was “not good,” she said. “Airplanes would attack, and we would get displaced and then return and so on… We got really frustrated and tired.”
“Now we would like to work and lead our lives. Now we don’t know what to do,” said another man wanting to go home. “Everyone wants something different from us. By Allah, we don’t know what to do.”