International report: Half of displaced Iraqis have returned to their homes

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International report: Half of displaced Iraqis have returned to their homes

18/12/2017 12:00 am  Return 0261 from camp in Syria to our liberated cities  Baghdad / Al-Sabah The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced on Sunday that nearly half of the Iraqis displaced during the fighting against the terrorist "Da'ash" gangs have returned home. A security source said that more than 4,500 Turkmen families returned to the city of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, Al-Hol camp on Syrian territory to their liberated cities. The International Organization for Migration said in a report published: "The number of returnees to their homes since the crisis began in November 2014 was 2.75 million people, compared to 2.88 million are still displaced," said spokeswoman Sandra Black, "It is the first time that The number of returnees is equal to the number of displaced people, "she said." If the situation continues at this pace, the number of returnees will be greater than the number of displaced persons. "  "The largest number of returnees were registered in Anbar and Nineveh provinces, and about one-third of returnees reported that their homes were severely damaged, while 60 percent reported that the damage was moderate," the report said. "People who have greater difficulty returning are those who are not They have poorer title deeds, and their areas are not safe because of mines. "  On Sunday, the German government announced that it had contributed 94 million euros to two UN assistance programs to help stabilize the newly liberated areas of Iraq.  The United Nations said that "the latest German contribution has reached the total German aid to Iraq in both programs $ 263.2 million, which puts them as the biggest supporter of the work of the United Nations in conflict areas, especially in Iraq." For her part, the UN Resident Representative in Iraq, Lisa Grande, said: "Nothing is more important in Iraq now than the stability of the liberated areas of an advocacy organization," she said in a press statement, "The task is huge and the repair of electricity and water networks and the removal of rubble and the opening of schools and hospitals "" support for Germany comes at the right time, with three million Iraqis still homeless, and we must help improve conditions in their cities, the first step in giving people confidence in their future. "  On the other hand, a source in the police Tal Afar: "The 4522 families of the people of Tal Afar returned to the city coming from central and southern Iraq and northern Iraq," explaining that "the proportion of returnees represent about 14 percent of the population of the city before the control urged by mid-2014" "He added that" although the reality of service inside Tal Afar is not the required level, but the insistence of parents to get rid of the life of displacement is much greater, "he said. Moreover, the General Company for Passenger Transport and Delegations announced that it has been operating more than 37 buses to carry out two exceptional duties within the efforts of the Ministry of Transport in the Higher Committee for Relief and Shelter for the displaced.  "The company has sent 30 buses to transport more than 1,620 Iraqi refugees with an exceptional duty of three days from Al-Hol camp in Syrian territory and to return them to their original cities in Iraq," the director-general of passengers and delegations Abdullah al-Obei said in a statement. The second included the operation of 7 buses to transport more than 350 displaced people and return them from the area of Tal al-Jarabiya northwest of Mosul to their areas of origin. "  "All the duties were carried out under the direction of the Minister of Transport Kazem Al-Yamami and in direct coordination with the Ministry of Immigration and the chairmanship of the joint committee of the Higher Committee for Relief and Shelter for the IDPs, who paid for the role of the ministry.  It is noteworthy that the General Company for the transport of passengers and delegations one of the formations of the Ministry of Transport announced previously implemented a transfer plan in cooperation with the relevant authorities to transport the families that have been displaced to the safe areas outside Iraq and inside the presence of gangs Takfiri and return to their original areas freed by heroes of the security forces.

[nannab]

This is good to hear.  Thank ya Yota

[ChuckFinley]

Excellent news.  

[Argyll]

Great news Yota! Thank you!

[10 YEARS LATER]

The time for borrowing $$$$$ from everyone else is over . . . RV/RI the IQD and get after putting your people and your country onto the very long overdue path to prosperity !

[Officiallytook]

This is an important factor

[Bama Girl]

I love this article because IMO, these Iraqis know they have something to come to. And that is important to us. 

[yota691]

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International migration: Half of the displaced returned to their areas in Nineveh and Anbar

 Baghdad / AFP 
 

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said about half the Iraqis displaced by fighting in the country against a pro-Islamic organization have returned to their homes.

"The number of people returning home since the start of the crisis in November 2014 was 2.75 million, compared to 2.88 million still displaced," the organization said in a study published this week. 
"This is the first time that the number of returnees has equaled the number of displaced people, and if the situation continues at this pace, the number of returnees will be greater than the number of displaced people," Sandra Black told AFP. 
Da'ash seized one-third of the country's territory in a major offensive in mid-2014, but in the past three years Iraqi forces have managed to regain control of the territory and declare victory. 
The study indicated that the largest number of returnees were registered in the Sunni-dominated Anbar and Nineveh governorates, noting that "about one-third of the returnees reported that their homes were severely damaged and 60 percent reported that the damage was moderate."
"People who have greater difficulty in returning are those who do not have titles, especially those who are poorer or weaker," she said. 
It noted that the main obstacle to the return of displaced persons was that the liberated areas were "still unsafe as well as unexploded ordnance, mines or armed factions". 
The majority of the returnees are Sunni Arabs and Kurds, and this does not apply to minority Turkmans, Shiites, Yazidis, Christians and Shabaks. 
In a related context, Iraqi Christians who fled to Jordan live in tragic situations that prevent them from returning to their country. 
In a Jordanian school that hosts refugees in eastern Amman, Iraqis dream of a better tomorrow away from Iraq, where they have lost everything and no longer feel safe.
"We lost everything, our houses were stolen, looted, destroyed and burned," said Walaa, 40, who is hugging her son at the school visited by the French ambassador in Jordan on the occasion of the announcement of a French donation. "We have nothing left to go back." 
She has been loyal to dozens of other Iraqi Christians, most of whom fled Mosul and surrounding Christian towns last Tuesday, to the Latin church in Marka, east of the capital, where their children are studying at the church's school. 
It announced the funding of a € 120,000 grant from the French Foreign Ministry's support fund for victims of ethnic and religious violence in the Middle East to help the school continue for a full academic year.
In the center of the celebration hall, a large tree decorated for Christmas was placed. The children of the school, all of whom hung large wooden crosses at the start of the celebration, performed the Iraqi national anthem "Mawtani Mawtani, Jalal, Beauty, San'a and Baha in Rabak in Rabak". 
"Education is necessary for those children who have been forced to flee their country," said French ambassador to Amman David Bertolotti. "They were victims of violence and persecution by an extremist group that forced them to flee." 
Walaa said she came to Jordan last August and applied for asylum to the UN refugee agency for resettlement in "any country that is safe for the future of my three children." 
Loya remembers the difficult circumstances she experienced with her family, who slept for days in public parks and churches in Erbil.
Walaa, whose husband owned a car repair shop in her hometown, says she suffers from heart disease and blood pressure, and she suffers from Jordan because of physical need. "We spent all our money and did not receive a single dinar from anyone, so I do not have the money to see a doctor or buy a gift for my children for Christmas," she said. 
"The church's school receives about 200 Iraqi Christian students who fled Mosul and the Nineveh Plain areas between the ages of 6 and 14," said Sanaa Bakki, principal of the Latin Church School. I missed one or more years of school because of the war. "
"The study is evening and in English, because all of them are not thinking of returning to Iraq, and they have already applied for asylum," said the head of the church's school, adding that the school is working on "qualifying them for the schools to which they will be enrolled in countries of asylum." Hands of Iraqi female teachers and books, clothes and a free meal. "