UN refugee agency moves Iranian Kurds in central Iraq to safer area in N.

[Barrett808]

UN refugee agency moves Iranian Kurds in central Iraq to safer area in north
11/12/05

(UN News Center) – The United Nations refugee agency has begun re-housing the last 2,000 Iranian Kurds remaining in a decades-old camp in the violence-torn Fallujah region of Iraq, transferring then to a safer location in the country's northern Kurdish area.

Al Tash camp in central Iraq was home for more than two decades to over 12,000 Iranian Kurdish refugees who fled Iran in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, security rapidly deteriorated and more and more refugees decided to leave to return home or look for a more secure existence elsewhere.

Located 60 kilometres from Fallujah and 12 kilometres from Ramadi, both violence-ridden cities, Al Tash was badly affected by the heavy fighting in 2004, and by February this year its population had dwindled to less than 5,000, with more and more residents looking for a way out.

As a result of the continuing dire security situation, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Kurdistan Regional Government signed an agreement in September for the construction of semi-permanent housing for more than 2,000 people from Al Tash in Kawa, 35 kilometres south of main Kurdish city of Erbil.

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http://www.payvand.com/news/05/nov/1104.html

[Kipling]

1. Really? Were they afraid of drowning in milk and honey?

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. I hope the UN begins to play a more active role in Iraq again

The US has proved that we can't control Iraq, it is time to give some other governing body a shot at it.

[rfkrfk]

3. the UN does not want to be involved in security issues,

well that is my guess.

Humanitarian issues would seem to be a good start.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Kofi Annan just showed up in Iraq today

I think that is a good sign that something is going on with the UN reentering Iraq.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=A9FJqZ2QQXZDrDcBQQOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--