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UNHCR: Most IDPs refuse to return home
On: Wednesday 02/22/2012 10:54
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the Commission confirmed the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, yesterday, that large numbers of displaced people within Iraq are still unwilling or unable to return to their home areas, stressing that some 1.5 million displaced people have returned to their areas since 2003.
This comes at a time, renewed Baghdad's commitment to the reception of its citizens returning from Syria, stressing that the Ministry of Displacement and Migration is working to open the camp for them in Anbar province, as pointed out can not be the ministry transport Iraqis from Syria to other countries.
The ministry has confirmed, in November 2011, that the file of the displaced and returning Iraqis at home and abroad will resolve the year-end 2011, and indicated that it plans to raise cash grants for families returning, but this file is still pending.
representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Iraq said in a statement released yesterday, and received " (range), a copy of it, that "despite the fact that some 1.5 million displaced people inside Iraq have returned to their areas of origin since 2003, but that large numbers of them are still unable or unwilling to return."
and quoted the representative of the United Nations by the Government "The statistics indicate that 1.3 million displaced people who fled after 2006, are still outside their areas, and they represent more than 22 thousand families," indicating that "most of them living in the capital, Baghdad, and the number of 328 thousand and 347 people, or 57 thousand and 194 families registered with the Ministry of Displacement and Migration. "
will be held the Commission and according to the statement a briefing on Sunday to highlight the situation of displaced people in Iraq and show their need for urgent humanitarian support continuous, as well as the difficulties they face in access to services, education and medical care. Commission announced the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in May 2011, on the status of a project to end the file of displaced people in Iraq to fully cooperate with local ministries concerned, indicating that the plan includes nine axes of the most important return of displaced persons voluntarily or resettled in other provinces or integrate them in their place of residence.
The High Commissioner for Refugees of the United Nations declared , the middle of last June, that about 960 thousand and 400 displaced inside Iraq have returned to their home areas during the period between 2008 and April of 2010, while he returned more than 70 thousand of Iraqis who have fled out of Iraq during the same period.
experiencing Syria Since mid-March of last year 2011, a popular protest movement was joined by dissidents from the army against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, however, security forces responded to the protests violently, killing more than 6000 people as well as thousands of wounded and disabled, detainees and missing persons, according to the reports of the Human Rights Commission the United Nations, while accusing the Syrian authorities, groups it describes as "terrorist" fueling the situation and the implementation of several acts of violence against security forces have resulted, according to saying the deaths of 2000 from members of the military and the police.
The government has announced its intention to re-Iraqis living in Syria voluntarily in order to ensure their safety of the deteriorating conditions there after reports of exposure some of them to crimes ranging from murder, kidnapping and Tsil.
said Chairman of the Committee of Displacement and Migration in the House of Representatives to meet with the pink The "Committee for Displaced parliamentary raised during the meeting two days ago with the Ministry of Displacement issue of Iraqis in Syria," noting that "the ministry expressed its full readiness to receive the Iraqis returning from Syria."
The pink in a statement received (range) a copy of it yesterday that "the Ministry of Displacement is working to open the camp in the province of Anbar to Iraqis returning from Syria," indicating that the "Committee for Displaced parliamentary and the Ministry of Displacement will hold a meeting with the Anbar province to study the subject. "
and confirmed the pink "can not be the ministry for the transfer of Iraqis in Syria to other countries, as refugees and have a filing in the Office of refugees that will carry them to other countries."
The Ministry of Displacement and Migration announced (February 1, 2012) , the formation of a technical committee headed by Undersecretary of the Ministry to follow the conditions of Iraqis in Syria, while the pointed head of the Iraqi Red Crescent to the Iraqis in the Syrian cities suffer from a lack of chronic disease drugs.
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