Posted by Scott Lucas | Feb 9, 2021 |
A woman sorts used clothing at the al-Hol camp in northeast Syria, January 2020 (AFP)
UPDATE, FEB 9: A UN Special Rapporteur has restated the call for 57 countries to repatriate their nationals from squalid” camps in northeast Syria.
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, responsible for the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism, said, “I think of the many grandmothers I have spoken to over the course of the last couple years, many of whom are literally watching their grandchildren starve on cellphones in western countries that refuse to return their mothers and children.”
A UN-appointed board of independent experts emphasized:
Syria: UN experts call on 57 states to repatriate women and children from squalid camps
United Nations group of experts says countries of origin have primary responsibility to protect nationals in vulnerable situations outside their territories
Children hold onto water containers in al-Hol camp, Syria, 8 January 2020 (Reuters) By Published date: 9 February 2021 15:29 UTC | Last update: 2 months ago
UN human rights experts have urged 57 countries to repatriate nationals believed to be languishing in Syria’s squalid al-Hol and al-Roj camps, where thousands are at risk of violence, exploitation and death.
Tens of thousands of women and children, most of whom are under the age of five, with alleged links to Islamic State group (IS) fighters have been detained, without due process, in camps run by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces militia in northeast Syria.
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Kurdish-led SDF arrests 4 ISIS suspects in eastern Syria with Coalition support 2021/02/03 16:28
Special units of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have carried out several operations against the Islamic State in recent weeks (Photo: SDF Coordination and Military Operations Centre)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Tuesday that it had arrested four suspected members of the so-called Islamic State in Syria’s Deir al-Zor and Hasakah provinces in separate operations this week.
The SDF Media Centre said in an online posting that its forces had arrested three of the militants “in al-Fidyn village, south of Al-Swar town, Deir Ezzor (Deir al-Zor) countryside.”