On Saint Patrick’s Day in 2016, United States secretary of state John Kerry acknowledged that a genocide was happening in Iraq and the surrounding region against Christians and other religious minorities. The ISIS threat was an existential one — as people fled their homes, it was not a given that they would remain, as any future for their children and their communities seemed unclear at best.
To this day, some of the families who fled Mosul still have not returned home.
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