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Kazakh woman repatriated from Syria wishes to forget ISIS nightmare

Nur-Sultan, Mar 31 (EFE), (Camera: Kulpash Konyrova).- "It was an infinitely long four years that I want to forget," Sabinella Ayazbayeva said about the time she spent in the hands of Islamic State before her return to Kazakhstan from Syria as part of the government's Operation Zhusan, which has overseen the repatriation of more than 600 Kazakhs.internet, and all the information was there, and little by little he started to say that the Islam that was preached in the mosques was not correct. I had my doubts, but he always found answers and dispelled them."SABINELLA AYAZBAYEVA (VERTICAL) "He started to say that if I didn't go with him, he would take our children, that he wouldn't give me time to do anything, because he would go with them (to Syria) and I was afraid of that, because I didn't want to lose my children."SABINELLA AYAZBAYEVA (VERTICAL) "When we crossed the border, we were separated, my husband went to one place and we went to another. I thought I would never see him again, I didn't know what was going to happen to me and the children, I was very worried."SABINELLA AYAZBAYEVA (HORIZONTAL) “It's very difficult to remember life in Syria now, because it was very difficult. For me it was four long years, but it was as if I had lived there for 30 years, all my life.”SABINELLA AYAZBAYEVA (HORIZONTAL) “We saw bombings, dead bodies, houses in ruins, shootings, we saw it all with our own eyes and it is very difficult to put words to what we felt.”SABINELLA AYAZBAYEVA (HORIZONTAL) “They gave us an allowance of 50 dollars per adult and 28 dollars per child, but that was not enough to live on. We had our own money and we used it there.”SABINELLA AYAZBAYEVA (HORIZONTAL) “My goal now is to stop those who want to leave now, as I did at the time, to warn them and show them my mistakes, without hiding anything. That wasn't life, it was a long nightmare.”SABINELLA AYAZBAYEVA (HORIZONTAL) ”I would like to bury all these memories far away and for a long time, and never remember them again.”ERLAN KARIN "The debate was long, there were both supporters and opponents of this operation, including state institutions, because as in other countries there was a fear that the repatriated citizens could bring radical ideologies into society."ALIM SHAUMETOV "The children are the ones who have suffered the most from this. I received the first group when they arrived from Syria, I carried them in my arms. I received them over the course of a month and I saw their faces, those children’s frightened eyes. That's why I think the children have suffered the most.”