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Over 9,000 Syrian Kurdish refugees arrived in
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Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region received up
to 9,000 Syrian refugees looking to flee their
country's ongoing violence.
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July 22, 2012
DUHOK, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — Iraq's
semi-autonomous Kurdistan region received up to
9,000 Syrian Kurdish refugees looking to flee their
country's ongoing violence, a Kurdish official said
on Saturday, Xinhua news agency reported.
"The camps, which prepared for Syrian refugees
crossing the (Syria-Kurdistan) border, continue
receiving increasing numbers of refugees and till
today we have received 9,000 of them," Mohammed
Abdullah, head of the directorate of Immigration and
Immigrants of Kurdistan's Duhok province, told
reporters.
The Kurdish regional government in cooperation with
international and some local humanitarian
organizations are offering various aids to the
refugees who are mostly Kurds coming from Syria's
Kurdish cities in Syrian Kurdistan (western
Kurdistan) adjacent to the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
On Friday, the central government in Baghdad said it
is unable to receive Syrian refugees because of the
poor logistics and security situation in the Iraq.
"Our borders located in desert areas. We cannot help
(Syrian) refugees because of the unstable (Iraqi)
security situation," the government spokesman Ali
Dabbagh said in an interview on the state-run Iraqia
television.
Dabbagh explained that his country's border with
Syria is a desert with very few cities that are
unable to provide services for thousands of Syrian
refugees who are expected to pour into neighboring
countries of Jordan,www.ekurd.net
Turkey and Lebanon.
Syria has been wrecked by bombings and violence
against civilians since March 2011, when
anti-government protests began. The unrest has
claimed the lives of thousands of people, including
large numbers of security forces.
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