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UNHCR concerned over Sweden's plan to deport Iraqis
 BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The United Nations refugee agency voiced concern over reports that Sweden planned to send about 25 Iraqis back to Baghdad on Wednesday, saying that a number of those scheduled to be deported belong to religious and ethnic groups that have been targeted in recent attacks.
| Translation: they're Sunni dead-enders who have been causing trouble in Malmo but who are correctly in fear of their lives if they return to a land where the Shi'a thugs are in charge. |
The spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Melissa Fleming, told reporters in Geneva that those reportedly targeted for repatriation "have profiles that would warrant protection under the 1951 Refugee Convention or the European Union's Qualifications Directive."
| I wasn't aware that the Refugee Convention protected thugs and troublemakers... |
| Thugs and troublemakers are a special class. Naturally, they're protected. |
"UNHCR was troubled that its advice, including on the situation of minorities in Iraq, was not sufficiently taken into account by Sweden when reviewing negative decisions that were made in 2008 and 2009," Fleming said, adding that the agency believed that the Swedish authorities had not adequately taken into account the recent deterioration in the situation of minorities in Iraq.
| The UNHCR didn't offer to do anything, but they're troubled that the Swedes won't take their advice. |
| They're troubled that the Swedes don't join them in doing nothing, which is what one is supposed to do whenever threatened by thugs and troublemakers. |
UNHCR has frequently appealed for countries to ensure that asylum applicants originating from Iraq's central governorates of Baghdad, Diala, Ninewa and Salah al-Din, as well as Kirkuk province, benefit from international protection by being granted refugee status.
Fleming said that the agency understood that many of those being returned came from those identified areas.
| I'm comfortably certain that the Swedes wouldn't be turning these folks back into the tender mercies of the Iraqi police unless the jokers had caused some significant amount of trouble. The over-civilized world tends to inertia unless perturbed. Too bad the UNHCR didn't bother to look into that. |
Posted by: Steve White 2011-01-20 |
