(Yle) The Finnish Foreign Ministry says it has no plans to try to repatriate the remaining Finnish children from the al-Hol refugee camp in northern Syria. A senior ministry official told Yle on Saturday that the primary reason is that the children’s mothers refuse to cooperate with Finnish authorities. Most of them are relatives of IS combatants.
There are still about 10 Finns in the camp, most of them children. So far, 26 children and nine adults have been voluntarily repatriated from the camp to Finland.
The camp, located in a conflict zone near the Iraqi border, is controlled by an armed militant group that does not allow children to be separated from their guardians.
