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Isyan Camp Director Hafkar Ihsan Amedi told that this convoy represents the second group of returnees. The families are returning to various complexes and villages across Sinjar. He said the Barzani Charity Foundation and IOM provided each family with a financial grant of 1.558 million Iraqi dinars to cover the costs of transporting furniture and essential belongings, amid the absence of financial compensation from the relevant federal authorities.
Amedi also revealed that 1,815 displaced families remain in the camp, awaiting suitable conditions for their return.
Warnings Over Secondary Displacement and Poor Services
Meanwhile, Sarwa Rasul, Director of the Joint Crisis Coordination Center (JCC) at the Kurdistan Region’s Ministry of Interior, warned of a growing trend of “secondary displacement,” with hundreds of families returning to the Kurdistan Region’s camps after initially returning to Sinjar.
Rasul attributed the setbacks to the failure of Iraq’s Federal Ministry of Migration and Displacement to fulfill its commitments, the lack of basic services and infrastructure, delays in financial compensation for affected families, and continued security tensions and instability in Sinjar.
The Ministry of Interior official revealed that 500 families registered earlier this year to return to Sinjar, but the vast majority later reversed their decision and chose to remain in the Kurdistan Region’s camps due to the difficult living conditions and inadequate services in their areas of origin.