Albania Repatriates An Additional 9 Children and 4 Mothers from the Detention Camps in Syria : Bo Nylund / ABC News
Great news! Nine Albanian children & their mothers have been repatriated from a Syrian camp. @UNICEF continues to call for the safe reintegration & repatriation of all children in camps & detention centres in northeast #Syria.
— Bo Viktor Nylund (@bvnylund) May 30, 2022
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According to ABC News Kosovo has also repatriated 121 people from Syrian camps
Albania's Interior Ministry said Saturday that four Albanian women and nine children, all related to Albanians who joined Islamist extremist groups fighting in Syria and Iraq, have been repatriated from a Syrian camp.
The group, which landed at the Pristina Adem Jashari Airport in neighboring Kosovo, was joined by “other Kosovar citizens leaving the hell camps,” the statement said, without disclosing the number. At least one man's blurred face was seen in a video distributed by the ministry.
Speaking at the airport, Albanian Interior Minister Bledi Cuci thanked U.S. authorities and Lebanese Gen. Abass Ibrahim, who has played a key role in the repatriation efforts.
Kosovar Interior Minister Xhelal Zvecla did not give details on the Kosovar citizens repatriated but assured that specialized institutions would take care to “rehabilitate” and “de-radicalize” them.
Cuci said 43 Albanian women and children whose husbands and fathers joined Islamic State group and most often have been killed in fighting have been brought back in four missions since 2018. Cuci said Albania had a list of citizens still in the camps and would continue efforts to bring them back.
Kosovo has repatriated at least 121 people since 2019.
“I would like to assure Albanians that we are determined to bring back from those camps any Albanians who has remained there, every child and every woman,” said Cuci.
Hundreds of people from Albania and Kosovo joined the Islamic State and other groups fighting in Syria and Iraq in the early 2010s. Many were killed, and their widows and children are stuck in Syrian camps.
We can be pleased to see that at least a few countries are repatriating women and children held in these detention camps for so long. Still, the overall situation of the ISIS dependents remains intolerable and should be a deep stain on the conscience of the governments that have imprisoned them for so long without any judicial process or even charges of wrongdoing. How can children be punished for the wrongdoings for their fathers?
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