40px”>Kovan's freedom is bittersweet. Upon her return, her surviving family showered her with sweets, sang and hugged her in delight and relief on having her returned to them. But her smile seemed skin-deep. Her trauma will take years to overcome, if she can conquer it at all. And she knows that. She has survived a genocide, a massacre and unthinkable brutality.
Only justice will bring her peace but so far there has been only a handful of persecutions worldwide for what Britain, and many other countries, now recognise as genocide against the Yazidis.
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