Kurdish students attend class at a school in Qamishli, Syria, March 11, 2019. REUTERS/Issam Abdallah
QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) - When Eyub Mohamad was a boy, security forces beat his father into paralysis. His offence was typing leaflets in Kurdish, banned under Syria's ruling Baath party.
Mohamad, with his family, fed and bathed his father for years. Wary of the typewriter that landed his father in interrogation rooms, he avoided learning to read his own language.
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