“No soldiers came to help us,” the 55-year-old man said. “And even worse, the military doesn’t trust us. They consider us as collaborators of the jihadists because we live in an area controlled by the jihadists.”

Jihadists consider them collaborators with the military, the military abandons them because they’re on the other side of the front line. You can only rely on local community for support when all is said and done.