My journey out of hell: 8-year-old Kurdish girl's drawings

[Anthea]

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My journey out of hell: Eight-year-old migrant girl's marker pen drawings in a cheap spiral notepad tell of her harrowing escape from ISIS and across treacherous seas to Europe

Shaharzad Hassan, 8, has documented her harrowing journey from Aleppo to Idomeni in a series of drawings
She left home in Syria's northern city 18 months ago fleeing ISIS to the Turkish border before travelling to Greece
Now on the Greek-Macedonian border, waiting for the border gates to open, she draws detailed bright pictures
She witnessed ISIS fighters and death, a boat of refugees drowning in the Aegean Sea and a Greek rescue boat
Her epic series includes drawings entitled 'Journey to death', 'Famine 2016', and 'Hope wasted, border gates closed'

In the rain-sodden tent in Idomeni refugee camp on the Greek-Macedonian border, eight-year-old Shaharzad Hassan sits quietly with her spiral notepad and a set of cheap marker pens documenting her harrowing escape from Syria.

Her series of drawings of her 18-month-journey from Aleppo, Syria provide a poignant insight into the horrors that the little girl has witnessed as she fled the violence to the waiting room of Europe.

The pictures depict violent ISIS massacres, famine at the refugee camp, the rescue of a boat of refugees from the Aegean and the sinking of a boat full of people left to drown.

More than half of the refugees reaching Greece daily are fleeing civil war in Syria. But more than 40,000 people are now stranded in Greece after Austria and the Balkan countries north of Greece began imposing border restrictions last month.

Shaharzad, her family and 14,000 others are camped out at Idomeni, on the Greek-Macedonian border - a sprawling, muddy assortment of tents where no one has crossed the border legally for days and conditions have deteriorated following days of torrential rain.

Hassan, a Syrian Kurd who worked as a taxi driver in Aleppo, sold his cab and moved to the nearby Syrian town of Afrin on the Turkish border, but decided to move on to Europe to try to join relatives in Germany after his money ran out.
Artist: Shaharzad Hassan, 8, has documented her journey from her hometown of Aleppo in Syria to the squalid Idomeni refugee camp on the Greek-Macedonian border as she waits with her family for the gates to open in a series of drawings using cheap felt tip pens

Link to Drawings:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... urope.html