Al-Qamishli (Syria) – The Kurdish authorities reported today that the number of foreign women and children from Islamic State countries who were recovered from the detention camps in northeastern Syria set a record in 2022, but that number only represents the tip of the iceberg at a time when tens of thousands of detainees are still foreigners in asylum camps under the control of Kurdish self-management.
In order to live in the so-called “caliphate state,” which the US-backed Kurdish forces finally took control of their last pockets of territory in Syria in 2019, thousands of foreigners, including women and children, moved to Syria.
Women and children are being held in a densely managing detention camps run by the Kurdish authorities and international non -governmental organizations that are pressure to return them to their countries in light of the escalation of violence and the deterioration of conditions in the camps.
Due to security concerns and public outcry over the restoration of people who the Islamic State had transferred to extremists, the government’s response was slow.
But this year, the pace quickened. According to figures provided by the Kurdish government, 517 women and children have already been sent back.
There were over 100 from France and over 50 from Germany among them. For the first time, Tajikistan also gained more than 150. The number of returnees was 324 in 2021, 281 in 2020, and 342 in 2019.
More than 10,000 women and a foreign child are still being held in the horrifying and promoted camps, according to Badran Jia Kerd, a prominent official in the Kurdish self-administration.
Lita Tyler, the director of Human Rights Watch’s Crisis and District Department, outlined the causes of the high numbers, citing the European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations as examples of European countries that have failed to repatriate their citizens.
She continued by stating that the governments of the countries came to the conclusion that they have a legal framework for the trial of people who travelled to the Islamic State areas and were subsequently imprisoned, making these governments more willing to send these people back to their home country, but she added that the year 2022 “is still the tip of the flood.”
“If the nations continue to support the management of the affairs of their subjects, who are detained in one of the most complex areas of war in the world, this humanitarian and security crisis will get worse,” she added.
The quick deportation of ISIS families from the Syrian refugee camps
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