Yousif “Malo” Shaheen in January, 2018, at the Eurasia Cafe in Springfield, Mo., the night before a major eye surgery.
Here’s a story I wrote about a Yazidi man whose eyes were badly damaged while fighting with Kurdish forces against ISIS. His right eye was blinded, and his left eye was badly damaged by shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade.
The Yazidis are a religious minority and were persecuted by ISIS. A United Nations commission found that ISIS committed genocide against the Yazidi – the reports of what ISIS did are horrific.
Yousif, or “Malo,” as he’s known, was brought to America by attorney Tim Hayes, who serves with a Christian humanitarian group called the Free Burma Rangers. Hayes and friends were able to arrange surgical care for Yousif in Springfield, Missouri.
There’s much more to the story, which ran in the Springfield News-Leader:
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