‘Police fired shots; I was tortured and starved in prison’: Karuh endured an ordeal at age 15 on refugee route from Iraq to Serbia

A boy, just 15 years old. He said goodbye to his mother, brother, and sister, packed his belongings into a single backpack, and set off on the run. His uncle wanted to send him to war, but he, like any child, would not hear of it! The only way out was to escape Iraq! Nine years later, this young man lives and works in Serbia, far from the horrors of war and death! Two years after his father's death, Karuh Pištivan, then a 15-year-old boy and now a 23-year-old man,