Shamima Begum moans she’s not getting ‘supplies right now’ as ISIS bride festers in squalid Syrian refugee camp
The Syrian camp has been described as a 'living hell for the cold and hungry'
ISIS bride Shamima Begum is complaining about her lack of “supplies” as she languishes in a squalid refugee camp.
But the 19-year-old could be stuck at the al-Hawl camp for two years as Britain, Holland and Bangladesh battle to keep her away from their borders.
Begum also says she should be allowed back to Britain because her baby is sick and she won’t leave without him.
She claims she is “willing to change” her ways while pleading for “mercy” from Britain and says newborn son Jerah is sick.
Begum said of the conditions she is currently living in: “I am struggling to get my supplies in right now.
“I don’t have a card because they lost my card, so I have to run around to take care of my son now, when I am sick. I am not getting my stuff.”
Begum is one of around 33,000 women and children who have fled to the crowded al-Hawl camp in Syria.
‘LIVING HELL’
It has been described as a “living hell for the cold and hungry” after 50 infants died there in the last three months alone.
Pictures show rows of tents lining the muddy desert wasteland as refugees struggle to survive in the dirty conditions.
Asked by Sky News correspondent John Sparks in Syria if she would be prepared to let her son go to the UK she replied: “No”.
She nodded her head when asked if the boy would stay with her at the camp for ISIS brides.
In a message to British politicians the teen said: “I would like them to re-evaluate my case with a bit more mercy in their heart, you know.”
if she could be rehabilitated following her time with the terror group, she replied: “I am willing to change.”
The young mum also said she has no desire to go to Bangladesh – who don’t want her anyway.
She said: “I don’t have anything there, another language, I have never even seen the place, I don’t know why people are offering that to me.”
Begum said
I would like them to re-evaluate my case with a bit more mercy in their heart, you know
Shamima Begum
Immigration lawyers have said Begum could use her son’s nationality to accompany him back to Britain.
However, it’s also been reported Begum could be stuck in her squalid refugee camp for two years after Britain and Holland also battle to keep her away from their borders.
She fled her home in Bethnal Green, East London, in 2015 to join Islamic State but gave birth to a baby boy over the weekend.
Begum had been begging to come back to the UK to raise Jerah, but her hopes appeared to be dashed when the Home Office stripped her British citizenship.
However, he admitted returning jihadists can’t always be prosecuted over what they’ve done in the Middle East as it’s so hard to gather evidence.
He continued: “Then let’s say they’re in the UK and they radicalise others, they groom others, they carry out a terrorist attack themselves or incite others to do that.
“What about the danger and risk to the country of that?
“What about the impact on community cohesion if people come back to the country and use that to radicalise others? I have to weigh that up too.
“These are people who chose to leave the UK and join a terrorist organisation that hates the UK and everyone who lives in the UK.”