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He was 8 years old when he went to Syria, the young Albanian tells of the horrors of war: I saw massacres
2026-03-15 22:17:19 / AKTUALITET
In 2012-2012, dozens of families from Albania emigrated to Middle Eastern countries, mainly to Syria, where they joined the Islamic State. It is learned that there are 17 Albanian children in Syria waiting to be repatriated from our country.
Abdi was one of the Albanian children who left our country for Syria in recent years, after his parents decided to join the Islamic State.
Abdi, who was 8 years old at the time, said he was transferred to Syria, 6 months after his father had gone to the Arab country.
" But at school, like everyone else, we were like any other family in Tirana, we lived, my dad was at work. I was at school, my brothers were in kindergarten. It was from 2012 to 2013, I remember my dad left. I found out that he had fled to Arab countries and after six months something like that happened, my mom decided, they talked to my dad and we moved too. There was a huge influence from the people, the believers he was with ," he said.
He then recounted his life in Syria, including the killing of his father. Abdi said that his father had gone out to fight in the morning, and that evening he was told that he had been killed.
He said that at one point he was near a mosque when a plane bombed a car, leaving dozens injured.
" I remember that my father fought against the Kurds and was killed by them and then we were in their hands. He also fought against Assad. Mom just stayed with us at home, when he was little, whether he was little or an adult, he would learn and how it made an impression, when they bombed, he would be afraid for a moment.
I stayed in Syria for ten years, I left when I was 8 and returned when I was 16, I saw massacres that no child of that age has ever seen. Once I was in a mosque and we had a car nearby, and the plane bombed it and even many people were injured because they were close to the mosque and you had to run away, one of the cases. I did not participate in the fighting, I was little. The war started at six o'clock.
The bombings started from six o'clock in the morning to six in the morning. They were bombing the area and you had to retreat slowly and you had nowhere to go to them, they made a deal, if you want, come, if you don't, you will be killed there ," Abdi told the Top Channel journalist.
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