3 minutes agoThe challenge of returning Kosovo women and children from Syria and Iraq (Video)
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)About 70 women and children from Kosovo continue to remain in Syria and Iraq since the militant Islamic State group has lost its control. Many Kosovo families, forced by men, began going to war sites since 2012, and their number reached over 300 people. Skender Pertesh, researcher [...]
Many Kosovo families, forced by men, began going to war sites since 2012, and their number reached over 300 people.
Skender Pertesh, a researcher at the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies (QKSS), says Kosovo citizens who remain in Syria and Iraq have lost contact with families, so the state must have a plan on how to get them back to Kosovo.
The biggest challenge will be how to bring back our citizens who still remain at war sites in Syria and Iraq”, Perteshi told Radio Free Europe.
Some “are occupied by Iraqi forces, some are occupied by Kurdish forces, others are somewhere between the deserts of Syria and Iraq, and no one communicates with them. At the moment of capture, he lost communication between them and the” family, he said further.
Pertesh has said that at the moment there are no mosques in Kosovo calling for jihad or calling for joining terrorist and extremist organisations that are active in the world.
According to the nongovernmental organisation dealing with safety issues Sougan, from Kosovo have gone to Syria and Iraq 317 people, from Bosnia 248, from Macedonia 140, from Albania 90 and from Serbia 50 people.
