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2020-12-28 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia repatriates 19 children from NE Syria as trickle home of ISIS-linked kids continues
[Rudaw] Russia repatriated 19 children from camps in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Saturday, the Russian presidency-linked Commissioner for the Rights of the Child has announced.

The children, aged between 3 and 15, had been living at al-Hol and Roj camps in Rojava, administered by Kurdish-led authorities. They were flown home on a Russian defence ministry plane, landing at Chkalvosky airport near Moscow.
I'd keep an eye on them, Ivan
The children were taken to a medical facility for examination, and will be subject to a coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

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...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
quarantine. Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova said in a statement released by the body she directs that she hoped that "the children would find themselves in a warm home environment on New Year’s Eve".

Russia has repatriated 144 children in 2020, the Commissioner’s statement said.

Repatriations to Russia were paused at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic early this year, but resumed in August. There have been five flights since.

Since 2017, 274 Russian children have been repatriated from Iraq and Syria, the two countries swarmed upon by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) gunnies in the summer of 2014. Thousands of foreign nationals flocked to Iraq and Syria to fight or serve ISIS — some bringing their children with them, while others had children under the rule of the caliphate.

The statement said that 152 of the Russian children repatriated since 2017 have come from Syria.

Tens of thousands of people live in al-Hol and Roj, most of whom are women and kiddies who either fled or were rounded up as ISIS began to lose ground in the country from 2017 onwards. Around 10,000 of those held at the camps are non-Iraqi foreigners.

Kurdish authorities who administer the camps have repeatedly appealed for international assistance, and have called on countries to take responsibility for their citizens. Elham Ahmed, president of the Executive Committee of the Syrian Democratic Council, warned that a generation of children was growing up in the camps "that can help ISIS [ISIS] get stronger and regroup, creating a threat again."

There are no exact figures on the number of ISIS-linked Russian children currently in Iraq and Syria, but Kheda Saratova, a repatriation activist and advisor to Chechen leader Ramazan Kadyrov estimated in February 2019 that there could be as many as 1,400.

There are 96 Russian children in Syria who now have the necessary documentation to fly home, the Commissioner’s statement said. There are also 36 children in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, believed to have travelled across the border after leaving al-Hol camp, who are undergoing testing to determine whether or not they are Russian, according to the statement.

A nine-year-old Belgian child was repatriated earlier this week — but separated from his mother, who remains at Roj camp. His father, who lives in Belgium, has not seen him since he left for Syria with his mother at three years old. The repatriation followed a Belgian delegation visit to Rojava in early December, where the return home of ISIS-linked Belgian nationals — termed "terrorists" by a Belgian parliamentarian part of the delegation — was discussed.

A joint operation last week saw the repatriation of 15 people Germany — seven orphans, plus three women with five children — and two adult mothers with six children to Finland.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-12-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ]  Top
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#1 If you're not bogged down by 'internationally advocated' humanist conventions, you can always isolate and re-educate to your hearts content.

Let's just hope good sense prevails and
Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-28 09:51||   2020-12-28 09:51|| Front Page Top

#2 they keep an eye on those families.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-28 09:52||   2020-12-28 09:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Something tells me the FSB and other russian intelligence services will do a better job than American assets would in keeping up with these kids.
Posted by Chris 2020-12-28 10:00||   2020-12-28 10:00|| Front Page Top

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