Kosovo refugee in Syria seeks to return to Kosovo

This woman, she's been talking over the phone about Radio Free Europe, telling about the serious conditions at Camp Al-Nisa in Syria.

She is not the only one from Kosovo and the region, located in Syria camps.

This place, this camp where we are, which has been taken out of prison, is called Al-Nisa, Coban. And here for now there's an Albanian sister, here with me, a Macedonian sister with her breast, and also Kosovo's offspring. Conditions are very bad, very, very vivid horror. We've been left in the camps by 100 people injured. Nor is there any food for him, nor is there enough water? They give us hot water to drink”, she says.

This 24-year-old woman from Pristina, along with other women from Kosovo and Albania, is waiting to return to their homes. However, it says so far, none of Kosovo's institutions have contacted them to return to their homeland.

Whatever contact I've had before. I got out of jail a week ago. I've been to Coban, we've been underground in prison. Now I have the opportunity to talk to you. We have no contact with anyone else”, she says, interrupting conversation because of fear of being heard by someone.

It's getting better off. So, I can't talk anymore. Let's do it. Let's do it.

Security institutions in Kosovo still do not have a plan for the return of dozens of Kosovars who continue to be in Syria.

Security institutions in Kosovo still do not have a plan for the return of dozens of Kosovars who continue to be in Syria. According to representatives of institutions in Pristina, the commitment currently concerns the persons who have already returned.

The Kosovo government has conducted a process of turning 110 Kosovars and is dealing with rehabilitation and reintegration. Even a number of Kosovo citizens have remained in conflict areas and that the Government and the Kosovo institutions will make informed decisions and measures of circumstances and possibilities”, the National Co-ordinator for Prevention of Distremism, Fatos Makolli, has declared.

Back Balaj from the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies tells Radio Free Europe that all Kosovo citizens in Syria must return to their homes. However, it says that foreign fighters who are in prison there may pose a threat to Kosovo society.

The remaining ones in Syria should also be organized back. One problem with the group in Syria is that we now have more foreign fighters there who can pose a threat to our society. This is because they've been in a war zone, and potentially exposed to various violence and trauma, it makes them have a risk dose in their”, Balaj says.

At the end of April, Kosovo has returned 110 Kosovars from Syria, including 32 women, 74 children and 4 foreign fighters.

In the last six years, more than 400 Kosovo citizens, mostly adults, have gone to Syria and Iraq to fight on the side of the militant Islamic State group. More than 70 have been killed, while many women and children - some born there - continue to be in various camps.

Kosovo has drafted a law in 2015, with which any person participating in foreign wars could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. /rel