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Iraq sends planes to Belarus to collect over 600 migrants
by AFP Staff Writers
Baghdad (AFP) Nov 25, 2021

Two Iraqi planes took off Thursday night for Belarus in order to repatriate more than 600 Iraqis stuck on the ex-Soviet state's border with Poland, the transport ministry said.

Hundreds of Iraqis, most of them Kurds, returned home last week on a voluntary repatriation flight from Belarus, where thousands of migrants have camped on the border for weeks hoping to enter the European Union.

Iraqi foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed al-Sahaf said a total of 617 people would be repatriated, the official Iraqi news agency reported.

The first plane 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 migrants -- mostly from the Middle East -- under the false pretence that they will be to cross into EU members Poland and Lithuania.

Belarus has denied the claim and criticised the EU for not taking in the migrants.

Aid groups say at least 11 migrants have died on both sides of the border since the crisis began in the summer, and have criticised the Polish government over its policy of pushing migrants back.


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Despite hurdles in Belarus, Iraqi migrants still long for way out
Dohuk, Iraq (AFP) Nov 23, 2021
After spending three weeks in the freezing forests on the Belarus-Poland border, Hussein Khodr, his wife and his mother found themselves back at square one - an Iraqi camp for displaced Yazidis. But despite the "cold" and "hunger" of their arduous and fruitless journey, Khodr dreams of making the trip out once again. The family was among 400 Iraqis, most of them Kurds, who returned home Thursday on a repatriation flight. Between visas and daily costs, Khodr ended up spending over $10,000 in ... read more

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