Sydney – local media reported on Friday that Australian relatives of dead fighters or ISIS imprisoned are on their way to Sydney, while the country is starting to renounce a controversial return of dozens of Australian women and children from refugee camps in Syria.
In 2019, Australia first evacuated eight children and the grandchildren of two deceased fighters from a Syrian refugee camp; however, it has so far refrained from repatriating any additional refugees.
Four women and 13 children reportedly left the Rouge refugee camp in northern Syria on Thursday afternoon and crossed the border to Iraq to board an aircraft and return to their home country, according to the Sydney Morning Herald and the official broadcasting Authority (ABC).
The sensitive nature of the situation, according to a spokesperson for the minister of internal affairs named Claire O’Rel, is why she declined to comment.
According to local media, some women may be accused of committing terrorist offences or of entering Syria illegally.
The government will follow the recommendations of the national security agencies, according to Prime Minister Anthony Albaniz’s statement on Friday.
As we have done up until this point, “We will continue to work on the advice of national security. We will always act in a way that keeps Australia safe.
The opposition leader in Australia, Peter Datton, stated on Friday that this choice is not in the best interests of the nation, “especially because they were mixing with people who despise our country and despise our way of life.
By sending them back, Australia is following in the footsteps of Belgium, France, the United States, and other nations that pushed to send their nationals back from the camps in Syria. However, other governments, like the British government, have stalled the process due to security concerns.
Three days ago, Qasim Al-Araji, the Iraqi national security adviser, confirmed that Iraq continues to work with the UN and humanitarian organisations to move forward with the termination of the Jolly camp file to accommodate the citizens of ISIS in Syria. The fate of the horror camp and the ISIS families is still a matter of debate and disagreement.
Al -Araji said during his meeting with German ambassador to Iraq, Martin People, that “Iraq encourages all countries to withdraw their citizens from the Hall camp because it has become a center for the graduation of terrorists and the growing strict ideas,” according to a statement by the Iraqi National Security Adviser. He applauded Germany for deciding to remove its “people from the Syrian Hall camp, a move that will inspire the other nations to remove their citizens.”
” The German ambassador to Iraq revealed that his country “has so far restored 150 of its women and children from the Syrian Hall camp. ” According to him, the international community is considering supporting Iraq’s plan in the Jolly camp case.
Australia is divided on sending the families of ISIS fighters back to Syria.
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