BiH citizens, 118 of them, who have completed in Syrian camps, pass in agony and uncertainty for years.
As the “independent newspapers” confirmed from the BiH Security Ministry, in the Refugee Camps in Al Hall and Roy and Detention Units in the northeastern Syria there are 52 adult citizens of BiH, of which 22 men and 30 women, from their 66 minors.
The last rescue was recorded in 19. December 2019. year, when BiH citizens from Syria were returned, a total of 25 – seven men, six women and 11 children and one child unaccompanied.
Since then, results are not visible. The United Nations repeatedly called the countries to accept and return their citizens and end the unconditional stay of children and women in closed camps. It is estimated that about 8,500 women and children in camps from about 60 foreign countries.
Denis Hadžović, president of the Center for Security Studies, says that they have already declined about this issue and pointed out that BiH violates international norms in the present case, ie does not meet the obligations required to meet.
“We must enable each citizen to return and do everything on that plan. That problem remains not resolved,” said Hadžović for “independent newspapers”.
According to him, what (not) is frivolously towards BiH citizens.
“Except for some promises, nothing was done on that plan, which is unacceptable. The obligation is the state to take care of their citizens,” Hadžović emphasized.
The manner in which the state (does not) act in a specific case, maybe it could be illustrated in another example. Namely, we tried to get an attitude from BiH’s foreign minister Elmedin Konakovic, but he did not answer us, nor did he answer the message we sent and he saw.
From the Security Studies Center, they have previously warned that the process of repatriation and the resocialization of women and children from BiH first went to terrorist camps, and then placed in neutral refugee camps, a complex problem and is a challenge for institutions.
They reminded that, according to the International Pact on Civil and Political Rights, “No one must be arbitrarily deprived of the right to enter their country.”
They also emphasized that, during the visit of BiH in October 2023, Rafi Gregorian, the United States, in the northeastern Syria, said that the majority of the illegally deprived of liberty and which live in difficult conditions, exposed to constant violence and Trauma.
Earlier, the Council of Europe would warn that he would have to receive back all his citizens who stayed in Syria during the war events.
“BiH, as a member of the UN and signed and ratified most of the human rights contracts and the Convention on the Reduction of the Number of Apatrides, should fulfill its obligations regarding the issue of repatriation of their citizens,” the Center for Security Studies.
Some media published some months a few months ago that there were about 160 BiH citizens in Syria, but in different circumstances, so those who are at large do not plan return, while in prisons and camps live in fear.
Recall, a group of BiH citizens, who were in the camps in Syria, in accordance with the previous conclusions of the Presidency of BiH and the Council of Ministers of BiH, arrived in BiH at the end of 2019. years.
Upon arrival at the Sarajevo International Airport, BiH border police checks, were provided with the necessary assistance, followed by the receiving center due to further examinations and providing medical assistance.
Together with this group, there have been seven men, who were suspected, wamed on the side of terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq, which were submitted in further jurisdiction of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH.
In BiH’s Security Ministry, judging by the response they sent us, they do not know when BiH’s rest of BiH will be refunded. The process of repatriation is, as they say, very complex, and requires the participation of both domestic and international institutions and organizations.
“The Council of Ministers of BiH adopted the Repatriation Plan, Rehabilitation and Resource Returnees from Syria and Iraq’s Consequently, the Citizens of Syria and Iraq and their reintegration, rehabilitation and resocialization.” For now, we have no reliable information “, They said from the BiH Ministry of Security for “Independent newspaper“.
