(Yle) The Foreign Ministry on Sunday evacuated six Finnish children and two mothers from the al-Hol displacement camp. However, some 15 kids and five mothers still remain interned in the camp housing women and children captured after the collapse of the Islamic State in Syria.
Foreign Ministry special representative Jussi Tanner on Sunday said it was important that children displaced at al-Hol return to Finland sooner rather than later, noting that another scenario was that these individuals return five to fifteen years from now.
“Finnish citizens will in any event have the possibility of returning to Finland. Coming back to Finland would anyway happen when they’re able to leave the camp,” he said at a Foreign Ministry press conference on Sunday.
