War tolerant than refugee camp
Agency for Refugees reported that only in the past week, 50 Kurds who have already applied for asylum in Germany, decided to go back to the war zone of Iraq, because Western Europe is not what they had hoped, writes Dnevnik.hr. To get to Germany, which was until recently considered the promised land, Mohammed Aziz Qadir walked eight hours Turkey, and agreed to the 20-hour agonizing ride in the truck in which he was cramped all the time, writes the Telegraph.
- We sat with his knees pressed to his chest. We could scarcely breathe. It was not a human way to travel. We felt like cattle. People have used the bottles in the absence of toilets and the smell was awful - told. But soon after he arrived in Germany, Mohammed Aziz Qadir, an Iraqi Kurd, he realized that it was not the land for him, and he returned home. He is one of a number of refugees, according to the Agency for the refugees who have more and more people from Germany back to their country because Western Europe is not what they had hoped. The difficulties faced in Iraq, estimated tolerable than life in a refugee camp.
- When I first entered the camp I was shocked by the difference between Berlin, which I had in mind and what I saw there. They looked at me like a second-class citizen, I did not feel respected. When I walked through the city, it was obvious that I was a refugee from the camp - said the 24-year-old Qadir.
Hope died after two and a half months of the Agency for Refugees show that an increasing number of Kurdish refugees who are returning home, even while hundreds of thousands of Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans through difficult break through to Western Europe. Since last year, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Migration, the Iraqi Kurdish region have left 25,000 people.
But just last week, a group of 50 Kurds who sought asylum, returned from Germany to Erbil. Qadir was in a transit camp on the outskirts of Berlin lasted two and a half months. He hoped to open a pizza restaurant and earn enough money to help his family in Erbil, marry and raise children in a European country. Iraq has fled because the city where he lived converging forces of the Islamic State. In the camp, conditions were deteriorating as they've received an increasing number of refugees. The food was limited to two meals a day, and the camp rules limiting the time when the camp can come in and out.
- Due to the difficult situation in the camp, I felt that life in my country better - he said. "My son was sad and scared," Qadir was lucky because his family financially helped to return to Iraq by air. Nawaf Alias, who also decided to leave Europe after a brief period spent there, was not so lucky. This 35-year-old was expelled in the camp near the Kurdish city of Dohuk after ISIL won his village in August 2014. Tough conditions in the camp, caused him to embark on the difficult path towards Europe.
The smugglers had paid $ 20,000 to help him and his 10-year-old son to get to Germany. - The German government has offered food and 540 euros to me and to my son, but it was not enough. My son was sad and scared, it was difficult to find someone with whom they can talk in Kurdish or Arabic - said Alias. Now he's back in the tent in Dohuk that he prefers poverty in Germany. - My my community received back. Friends gathered so we drank beer and smoked, just as before - told.
- 27 Oct, 2015
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