SAN JUAN: Human Rights Watch on Tuesday called on Trinidad & Tobago to repatriate more than 90 of its citizens who have been detained as Daesh suspects and family members in war-torn Syria, noting that at least 56 of them are children. Some of them were whisked to Syria as children by relatives, while others said they erroneously thought they were going to visit a Muslim utopia. “These children never chose to live under Daesh, yet they are suffering because of their parents’ decisions,” said Jo Becker, the Human Rights Watch child advocacy director. Most of the Trinidadians were detained in late 2018 and early 2019 by US-backed Syrian forces fighting the Daesh group in northeast Syria and are currently held in makeshift camps that activists say are dangerous and lack food, water, medical care and education. Of the more than 90 Trinidadians detained in Syria, some 21 are women, and 44 of the at least 56 children detained are 12 years old or younger, according to the human rights organization, which said it interviewed six Trinidadians held in camps. Among them is a 17-year-old boy whose father took him to Syria in 2014. “My father lied to me. He told me that we were going to Disneyland,” the organization quoted the boy as saying. “It’s not my fault. It’s my father’s fault … I just want to come back home.” A 19-year-old Trinidadian man said: “My dad told me I was going to go to a hotel in Egypt and swim in a pool. I was 11 years old,” according to the organization. Trinidad & Tobago has repatriated only a handful of its citizens in recent years despite at least 130 of them traveling to Daesh-held territories from 2013 to 2016, the most people per capita of any country in the Western Hemisphere, according to Human Rights Watch. Many of them came from three communities in Trinidad: Rio Claro, Chaguanas and Diego Martin. One of them was even featured as a fighter in an Daesh online magazine. Links to terrorism are not rare for the twin-island nation, which was the site of the only Islamic revolt in the Western Hemisphere when a radical group launched a violent coup attempt in 1990.