INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Sana Ibrahim al-Taee whose sons were killed, at her home with her grandchildren in Mosul, Iraq
their fathers - her sons - a struggle in a cramped flat with little help from the state.Al-Taee and her husband, who has Alzheimer's, share
their four-room apartment in eastern Mosul with the children, aged between two and 16, their daughter and two of their sons' widows
Rent, food, clothes and schooling depend on donations and charity handouts.Al-Taee is waiting to hear if the government will provide
pensions of 500,000 dinars ($420) a month for her sons, who worked in the military and police."I hope that the authorities will give
pensions and housing for those orphans, because I am not going to live for 100 years," the 60-year-old told Reuters.Al-Taee, who is in poor
health with vocal cord paralysis, has provided death certificates for three sons but said the other two were buried in mass, unmarked graves
and she has not been able to find their bodies.That means they are classed as missing rather than dead so she has no death certificates for
up to $100 billion to rebuild the cities with Mosul's mosques, churches, markets and other landmarks left in ruin."When Daesh (ISIS)
militants seized our areas, they destroyed us
By God, the terrorists humiliated us
They killed our sons and nothing has remained," al-Taee said.The two widows living in the cramped home had been working for local civil
organisations but left after not being paid
They are now looking for work as servants
