Brandenberg’s East German state internal minister Rene Wilke said on Friday that he was recently insisting on the return of a Yazi family in Iraq, stating that removal could cause a court order violation.
Yazidis is a religious minority, which faced a massacre in the hands of the “Islamic State” (IS) terrorist group in Iraq in 2014, making such exile especially materials.
What do we know about the case?
The family, which included the user children, who was exiled on Tuesday, even though a court had taken up its responsibility to leave the country on the same day.
On Tuesday, 43 people were sent to Iraq on a charter flight from leapzig to Baghdad. However, unlike the initial claims by the officials of the participating federal states, Tarpalin was not only filled with single men who were required to leave the country, some of which came to the past. Yazidi family on board.
The family counsel had files for an emergency appeal with the Potsdam administrative court before the flight. The court ruled in his favor, but the family was already a route for Baghdad.
Wilke said, “Given the series of circumstances, the specific fate of the family, and the imperative to restore the legal compliance, I directed the concerned Brandenberg officials to work with federal officials to bring back the family – the court’s decision provides in their favor,” Wilke said. He stressed that the federal government should issue necessary travel documents and recognize the court’s decision.
Wilke said that the incident personally shifted her. The written decision of the court, which was retrospectively suspended, was not available until he landed in Baghdad, “he said.” At that time, the officers involved no longer had the ability to intervene. ,
The Yazidi family, who was living in Licen in the Uckermark region of Brandenberg, prosecuted against the rejection of their application for international protection and exile order in 2023. The federal office for migration and refugees denied the family refuge application.
Why is the exile of Yazidis so controversial?
Center-left social democrats, environmentalist tears and socialist leftist party politicians have called for the return of the family.
In 2023, the German Bundestag Offlyi recognized the crimes committed against Yazidis in 2014 as a massacre.
Many Yazids who ran away cannot atrocities still that their villages cannot be given home in Sinjar. Some are fighters and sympathy remain active in parts of Iraq, especially in rural or unstable region.
Group Nadia’s initiative, which advocates people survived by sexual violence and the purpose of reconstruction of communities in crisis, It was worried that the case was an untouched incident,
“Family -two parents and four young children -lived in Germany for years. The children were nominated in school and were fully integrated into their community. This exile has destroyed the family and reduced their safety and their original meaning.”
“Other Yazidi families in Germany have received exile notices, and many now live in fear of forcible return to one region, yet the Iraqi is struggling with a massacre, displacement, and tangible support from the government.”
Edited by: Wesley Dakri
