Nemam Ghafouri

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Nemam Ghafouri
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Nemam Ghafouri (25 December 1968 – 1 April 2021) was an

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).[1]

Early life

Nemam Ghafouri was born on 25 December 1968 in the Chnarok region of Iraq (now the

West Azerbaijan Province.[1] When Nemam Ghafouri was 20 years old she moved to Sweden with her parents and seven out of ten siblings.[2] Ghafouri then studied medicine at the University of Pécs, Hungary, and at Umeå University in northern Sweden, earning a medical degree from the latter in 2001. Between 2001 and 2003 she studied public health at Umeå University.[2] Ghafouri later specialized as a cardiothoracic surgeon.[1]

Career

Ghafouri had participated in aid missions in

genocide of Yazidis during the War in Iraq and displaced hundreds of thousands of refugees.[1][4] Ghafouri helped the refugees arriving wounded and traumatized at the border and made it her primary focus to help them.[1] She also founded Joint Help for Kurdistan, an aid organization assisting yazidi refugees and orphans.[4] Ghafouri set up a clinic at one of the refugee camps; as of April 2021, thousands of displaced Yazidi families still lived in this camp.[1] During this period she would work a few weeks at a time in Sweden or Norway to raise funds and spend most of her time on mission at or near the refugee camp.[5][6] Ghafouri was an outspoken critic of the Swedish governments stance on actual and would be ISIL-members, accusing the government of inaction.[7][6]

In March 2021, Ghafouri led a mission assisted by US diplomat Peter Galbraith to reunite twelve children, held in a Kurdish-Syrian orphanage on the Syrian-Iraqi border, with their mothers. The women had given birth to these children while being sexually enslaved by the ISIL fighters. When they returned to Iraq, Yazidi elders had forced them to abandon these children.[8][9][10]

Death

Ghafouri contracted COVID-19 in March 2021, while reuniting twelve Yazidi mothers with their children. She was then shifted to Stockholm, Sweden, for urgent medical attention.[1] She died on 1 April 2021.[11][12]

References

  1. ^
    ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "In memoriam: Nemam Ghafouri" (in Swedish). Umeå universitet. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  3. ^ Svahn, Klas (17 August 2016). ""Förövare och offer tvingas dela på sjukhus"". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  4. ^ a b Kankkonen, Tom (19 June 2019). ""Skilj IS-mödrarna från deras barn" - kurdisk läkare förespråkar hårda tag mot kalifatets kvinnor" (in Swedish). Svenska Yle. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  5. ^ Dahl, Anna Sofia (26 October 2016). "Stafettläkaren driver egen klinik i kurdiskt flyktingläger". Läkartidningen (in Swedish). Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  6. ^ a b Orrenius, Niklas (9 June 2019). "Svenska läkaren som befriar slavar: "Sveriges regering är medskyldig till IS brott"". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  7. ^ Orrenius, Niklas (2 April 2021). "Läkaren från Märsta dog av covid – räddade slavar från IS: "Att hon är borta är en humanitär katastrof"". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  8. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  9. ^ "Dr. Nemam Ghafouri, activist who helped Yazidis in Iraq, Syria dead at 52". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 2 April 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  10. ^ "'Hurricane of hope': Kurdish humanitarian Dr. Nemam Ghafouri dies". www.rudaw.net. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  11. ^ "Kurdish activist Dr. Nemam Ghafouri dies from COVID-19 in Sweden". www.kurdistan24.net. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  12. ^ Maghribi, Layla (2 April 2021). "Kurdish-Swedish humanitarian Neman Ghafouri dies from Covid-19 in Stockholm". The National. Retrieved 3 April 2021.

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