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Iraq
Returnees from Belarus claim forced repatriation
2021-12-12
[Rudaw] A plane carrying over 400 Iraqi and Kurdish migrants colonists from Minsk arrived in Erbil on Friday. Some migrants colonists claim they were forced to return.
And ...your point is?
So far, over 3,000 migrants colonists from across Iraq have returned from Belarus since last month. The majority of them are between the ages of 18 and 30.

Aryan Khalil, a returnee, told Rudaw on Friday he was deported by force by Belarussian police.

"They brought a bus the day before yesterday and filled it with migrants colonists by kicking them. They then sent us in three taxis to the airport and locked us up. They made us get on the plane tonight and then returned us," said the man.

Every migrant has a different story to tell. They have spent between $5,000 and $30k en route to Europe.

"[Making it to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
on] this route is by chance. Some have been returned by force while some could make it. We’re the victims of this route," said migrant Hawkar Bahadin at the airport.

Many come back to the Kurdistan Region with wounds from police brutality at the border.

"They [police] fractured my leg," said Jumaa Mohammed, who said he left the Kurdistan Region in search of a better life.

Thousands of Iraqi and Kurdish people traveled to the Belarus-Poland borders in recent months to make it to Europe.

The difficult conditions at the border zone caught the attention of international media and leaders. Several migrants colonists have died on the border so far.

Erbil and Baghdad began offering free flights to those who chose to return voluntarily last month.

According to the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Department of Foreign Relations, more than a thousand migrants colonists are waiting to be sent back to Iraq in Belarusian camps.
Related:
Belarus: 2021-12-05 Sulaimani to Dover: The journey of a young Kurdish migrant to the UK
Belarus: 2021-12-05 Iraq repatriates 419 citizens from Belarus
Belarus: 2021-12-03 EU to make it harder for migrants to enter from Belarus
Posted by:Fred

#4   Where does all the travel money come from?

Apparently the money comes from savings, sale of assets like homes and cars, and loans. Some of the loans are from traffickers, to be repaid from earnings upon arrival at their final destination.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-12-12 14:33  

#3  #1 Where does all the travel money come from?

More than a little from Soros, in all probability
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-12 11:57  

#2  The majority of them are [males] between the ages of 18 and 30.

They couldn't make it at home or change the ruling political environment so they joined the migrant hoard. They couldn't make it in their adoptive nation protesting borders or just being ne'er-do-wells so they were rounded up, beaten and booted out of the country, at some cost.
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-12-12 11:54  

#1  Where does all the travel money come from?
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2021-12-12 09:48  

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