Iraqi Migration Ministry announces return over 68,000 displaced families to their areas

Iraq 11:41 AM - 2021-01-16

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On Saturday, The Iraqi Minister of Migration and Displacement Ivan Faiq Jabro announced that over 68,000 families returned to their original areas during the past six months.

 

The Minister of Immigration said in a statement that over 68,000 displaced families returned to their areas of origin during the past six months, indicating that the current government has managed to overcome many obstacles that were hindering and delaying the return of the displaced, the most important of which was the security check that took several weeks.

 

She said: "All facilities have been provided and the appropriate conditions have been created for the voluntary return of the displaced to their areas of origin, with the aim of closing the displacement file permanently and ending the suffering of hundreds of thousands of this segment that has suffered harsh conditions for several years," noting that: “Coordination was made with the National Security Adviser and the Operations Command for the purpose of checking many of the names that were not verified during the previous governments, and their transactions were completed in a record time that did not exceed 72 hours, while before, the verification took several weeks."

 

Jabro added: “The number of voluntary returnees has so far exceeded 68,000 families from the camps and outside them."

 

"Very soon the displacement file will end and life in the liberated areas will return to what it was before, " she said.

 

ISIS occupied vast swaths of land in Iraq and Syria in 2014 declaring a caliphate in both countries and committing mass massacres and the most heinous crimes against the humanity. Iraqi has announced victory over the terrorist organization in 2017 and the latter lost their last stronghold in Syria in 2019.

 

Millions of people were displaced from their homes, according to a report by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), there are approximately 1.4 million IDPs in Iraq out of 6 million persons who were displaced during ISIS conflicts in Iraq and more than 4.5 million people have returned to their communities.

 

Ministry of Migration and Displaced in Iraq announced a decision in October last year to close camps allocated for displaced persons at the beginning of 2021 except for Iraqi Kurdistan and to repatriate the displaced persons to their unsafe countries.

 

The Kurdistan Region has been hosting many of the Iraqi IDPs, where according to latest report by the Joint Crisis Coordination Centre (JCC), there are still 698,902 Iraqi IDPs in the Kurdistan Region.

 

 

 

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