More than a thousand displaced Yazidis returned to Sinjar: migration minister

INA-  BAGHDAD


Minister of migration and displacement, Ivan Faik Jabro, announced on Wednesday the return of more than a thousand displaced Yazidis to their original areas of residence in Sinjar district.
 
"1,150 Yazidi IDPs have been voluntarily returned from displacement camps in Dohuk governorate to their original areas of residence in Sinjar district," Jabro said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
 
"The neighborhoods and villages of the district have been secured in coordination with the security forces, the two local governments in the two governorates and the Joint Operations Command," she added.
 
"The ministry has ensured the transfer of their furniture from the camps to their areas of origin," she stressed, noting that "the coming days will witness another voluntary return of displaced people from the Dohuk camps to their areas in Sinjar.