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2021-01-31 International-UN-NGOs
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UN Urges Countries to Repatriate 27,000 Children from Syria
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[ToloNews] The UN counterterrorism chief is urging countries to repatriate the 27,000 children stranded in a massive camp in northeastern Syria, many of them sons and daughters of 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....
bully boyz who once controlled large swathes of Iraq and Syria.
Vladimir Voronkov told an informal meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday that "the horrific situation of the children in Al Hol (camp) is one of the most pressing issues in the world today."
The 27,000 children "remain stranded, abandoned to their fate," vulnerable to be preyed on by Islamic State enforcers, "and at risk of radicalization within the camp," he said.
| I hear Mauritania is nice this time of year... |
Al Hol, the largest camp for refugees and displaced Syrians in the country, is currently home to almost 62,000 residents, according to UN humanitarian officials. More than 80% are women and kiddies, many who fled there after Islamic State turbans lost their last Syrian stronghold in 2019. There are a number of other camps in the northeast as well.
Voronkov said there are children from 60 countries in the camps who are the responsibility of their member states, not of Syria or the groups that control the camps. Kurdish fighters are guarding al-Hol and other camps as well as thousands of Islamic State fighters and boys in prisons.
He said a number of countries -- including Russia and Kazakhstan that convened the virtual meeting -- "have collectively repatriated nearly 1,000 children and their family members."
Golly. But as I recall, the majority of those in the camp are Iraqi, so perhaps that is the majority of Russian/Kazakh detainees. Voronkov said the experiences of the returnees are being compiled "and what we see thus far is that fears of security risks have been unfounded."
The executive director of the UN Counterterrorism Center stressed that children "must be treated primarily as victims" and youngsters under the age of 14 should not be detained or prosecuted.
History has shown that children are resilient and can recover from violent mostly peaceful experiences if they are supported in reintegrating into communities, Voronkov said.
History also shows that some children grow as they were bent, even if removed from that environment as young children, and become dangerous to those around them. Children are palimpsets, not wax tablets easily smoothed and written afresh. "Every effort should be made to ensure children are not kept in institutions but allowed to reintegrate with family members within their communities," he said.
Virginia Gamba, the U.N. special representative for children and armed conflict, told the Security Council that children catalogued as being associated with gangs including the Islamic State and al-Qaeda "are the children who have been left adrift by conflict, like flotsam in the sea."
The article continues in this vein for entirely longer than necessary. 
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