Hundreds of Iraqis, most of them Kurds, returned home last week on a voluntary repatriation flight from Belarus, where thousands of
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...A first plane carrying 185 people was due to land in Arbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq, after midnight, Lawk Ghafuri, head of foreign media relations in Kurdistan, told AFP.
On November 18, a total of 431 Iraqis were flown back home from Belarus, many returning with mixed feelings.
Most said they had spent their savings, sold valuables and even took loans to escape economic hardship in Iraq and start a new life in the EU, but they never made it across the border.
The West accuses Belarus of bringing in would-be
Belarus has denied the claim and criticised the EU for not taking in the
Aid groups say at least 11