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About 64,000 women and children with links to the Islamist terror group IS are in the Al Hol and Roj concentration camps in Rojava, in northeastern Syria. The UN is now asking 57 member states, including Sweden, to bring their citizens home from the camps immediately.
On Monday, letters were sent to every country on the UN’s list of shame.
– This is not a list you want to be on. Active work must be done on this list to escape, says Fionnuala Ni Aolain, UN spokesperson on terrorism.
“Must be treated like a victim”
Has Sweden met the requirements?
– The short answer is no. If women and children remain in the camps in Syria, they have not fulfilled their obligations under international law.All of these states, including Sweden, have the opportunity to bring their citizens home, he says and continues:
– If adults need to be prosecuted, there is the capacity and the will to do so. Children must be treated as victims, reunited with their families and integrated into society.
“Inhuman conditions”
The camps in northeastern Syria today can be compared to Guantanamo, says Fionnuala Ni Aolain.
– These women and children live in conditions that can only be described as horrible and inhumane.
