The Yazidi Women Who Fled ISIS and Now Clear the Mines It Left Behind

Aeon Video profiles women who once fled ISIS and now defuse the landmines the militants left behind in their Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq. The reversal is the whole thing: the people who ran from the violence are the ones making the ground walkable again. Coming home is one problem. Making home safe enough to come back to is a slower one, and it is being handled, at least in part, by women who lived through the reason it was necessary.